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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


This chapter is about guiding you through the requirements and steps necessary to upgrade your VMM 2008 R2 SP1 to VMM 2012 R2.

Note

There is no direct upgrade path from VMM 2008 R2 SP1 to VMM 2012 R2. You must first upgrade to VMM 2012 and then to VMM 2012 R2. VMM 2008 R2 SP1-> VMM 2012-> SCVMM 2012 SP1 -> VMM 2012 R2 is the correct upgrade path.

Upgrade notes:

  • VMM 2012 cannot be upgraded directly to VMM 2012 R2. Upgrading it to VMM 2012 SP1 is required

  • VMM 2012 can be installed on a Windows 2008 Server

  • VMM 2012 SP1 requires Windows 2012

  • VMM 2012 R2 requires minimum Windows 2012 (Windows 2012 R2 is recommended)

  • Windows 2012 hosts can be managed by VMM 2012 SP1

  • Windows 2012 R2 hosts require VMM 2012 R2

  • System Center App Controller versions must match the VMM version

Tip

To debug a VMM installation, the logs are located in %ProgramData%\VMMLogs, and you can use the CMTrace.exe tool to monitor the content of the files in real time, including SetupWizard.log and vmmServer.log.

As discussed...