In the second part of this series I will show you the basic installation of VMM, remember this is a test environment so you will need to separate SQL role and scale VMM to suit your needs.
Prerequisites
- I always create a SCAdmin account for my labs, so I have an administration account for all my System Center Servers, you should make it local admin in your servers and your admin groups, I usually do all mi installation and update tasks with this user.
- VMMadmins for your VMM administrators – Local admin in VMM server
- VMMaction to manage my Hyper-V hosts – Local administrator in all Hyper-V nodes to manage.
- VMMservice to execute VMM local services – Local administrator in the VMM server.
- SQLservice for SQL services.
Installing SQL 2012 with Sp2:
- It’s pretty straight forward to install SQL, so I will go through with the default I use for my test setup, in a production environment you should request advice from your DBA to follow best practices.
- Because this is a local install you won’t need to disable your firewall or apply any rules to it.
- Follow the setup until you get to the Setup Role page and select SQL Server Feature installation.
- Select Database Engine and Management Tolls in the Feature Installation Page.
- Leave the default instance for the installation to make it easy.
- In Server Configuration put the SQL Server Agent to Automatic and change the accounts to use your SQLservice account.
- Check the collation is set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
- Add your SCadmin user to the SQL Server Administrators in the Database Engine Configuration page.
- And press install when you are asked to.
Installing VMM 2012 R2
- Open the install media and open setup.exe if the install page doesn’t show when you double click.
- Click the install link.
- Select VMM Management Server and the Console will be selected by default, click next.
- Insert your product key and click next.
- Follow the setup making the selections that make more sense to you.
- In the prerequisites page you will see an error for the deployment tools not being installed, follow this link because the one in the setup will not work.
- Run the installer and just install Deployment Tools and Windows Preinstallation Enviroment (Windows PE)
- Close the wizard when the installation is completed.
- Go back to the VMM setup and click the Verify Prerequisites Again button, click next.
- In database configuration, leave the defaults and just select your default instance form the drop down combo, click next.
- Select Domain Account and put your VMMservice credentials in DOMAIN/User format.
- We need to create the container for the VMM key to be stored for future recovery, update or if we are doing a cluster HA for VMM installation.
- Go to your domain controller (DC01) and run ADSI Edit.
- Remember that the container should be created in the same domain as your install user.
- Right click over ADSI edit in the left pane and select connect, click ok with the defaults.
- Double click in default naming context and in your domain name.
- Right click in your domain name and select New and Object.
- Select Container and click next.
- In value use VMMK and click next.
- Click finish.
- Right click in the new CN=VMMK created item and select properties.
- Select security, click Advanced.
- In the Advanced Security window click Add
- Click Select a principal and look for your installation account, click ok.
- Give the following permissions: Read, Create all child objects and Write all properties.
- Now that we have our container let´s go back to our VMM server and to the setup.
- Check the box for Store my keys in Active Directory, it should be in this format, for example, if my domain is CONTOSO.com, it should be CN=VMMK,DC=CONTOSO,DC=com, click next.
- Leave the defaults in ports and click next.
- Leave the defaults for the library and click next.
- Click installs
In the next part we will prepare to manage the first host and deploy a virtual machine.