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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

Updating the VMM agents


After upgrading to a new version of VMM, you will also need to update the VMM agents running on the Hyper-V server hosts. This recipe will guide you through the steps to do so.

How to do it...

To update the VMM agent of a host, carry out the following steps after upgrading:

  1. In the Fabric workspace on the VMM console, expand Servers and then go to All Hosts. In the Hosts pane, right-click on the column header and select Agent Status.

  2. On the Hosts tab in the ribbon, click on Refresh.

    Note

    If a host requires the VMM agent to be updated, it will display Needs Attention in the Host Status column and Upgrade Available in the Agent Version Status column.

  3. To update the VMM agent, select and right-click on the host and then click on Update Agent.

  4. In the Update Agent dialog box, type in the user credentials and click on OK.

  5. The Agent Version Status column will exhibit Upgrading, which will then change to Up-to-date once the update process has been completed successfully.

  6. On the Hosts...