Month: October 2016

How to move SCVMM VMs into a Cloud

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If you’ve ever added hosts to an SCVMM instance you’ll know that there’s seeminly no easy way to move the newly imported VMs from those hosts into SCVMM clouds. I’ve found the best way to do this is by using the SCVMM command-line interface, which unfortunately has a few quirks.

Set-SCVirtualMachine is the command you’ll need to use, with the flag “-Cloud” like in the example below.

Set-SCVirtualMachine -VM “NewVM1” -Cloud “Cloud1”

Unfortunately, every time I’ve tried this I’ve gotten an error saying it can’t convert the value type correctly like as shown below.

setscvm-failure

 

For whatever reason, I’ve found that the work around here is to set both the VM and the Cloud as variables and run the command again.

$VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine “NewVM1”

$Cloud = Get-SCCloud “Cloud1” 

Set-SCVirtualMachine -VM $VM -Cloud $Cloud

setscvm-success

 

Then we have success!

 

sccloud-success

 

I’ve yet to figure out why this is, but at least it works.

I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.

Thanks,

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SCVMM Error 2912 “The configuration registry database is corrupt (0x800703F1)”

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I recently spun up a new SCVMM environment, created my first VM, and attempted to create a template only to be faced with a job error.

Error (2912)
An internal error has occurred trying to contact the Host01 server: : .

WinRM: URL: [http://Host01.lab.local:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [LoadSubkey], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/P2VSourceFixup?RegFileName=C:\Users\SVC_VMM\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6AB5.tmp]

The configuration registry database is corrupt (0x800703F1)

Recommended Action
Check that WS-Management service is installed and running on server host01.lab.local. For more information use the command “winrm helpmsg hresult”. If host01.lab.local is a host/library/update server or a PXE server role then ensure that VMM agent is installed and running. Refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2742275 for more details.

 

I’ve seen this issue before and typically it’s because I go on auto-pilot and sysprep the VM by hand. That will cause an issue, go ahead and start the VM and login, shutdown and let VMM do the sysprep.

Unfortunately this time that wasn’t the problem, though it was similar. When I shut the VM down I accidentally hit “Turn Off” and it hard powered the VM down. A simple boot, login, and retry fixed the problems here.

 

I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.

Thanks,

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SCCM 2012 R2 Reinstall Fails – Configuration Manager Requires a Dedicated SQL Server Instance

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Recently I had to reinstall an SCCM 2012 R2 instance, and came across a strange error when I ran the Prerequisite Check.

Dedicated SQL Server instance: Configuration Manager requires a dedicated SQL Server instance to host the site database. You selected the SQL Server instance that site hosts the Configuration Manager database for another site. Select a different SQL Server instance for this new site to use, or resolve the conflict by uninstalling The Other excellant site or moving to a different database SQL Server instance.

 

After some research it turns out this (in my case anyways) is due to the SCCM uninstall process not properly completing. SCCM doesn’t need it’s own SQL instance, it just requires that you only have one SCCM instance per SQL instance. To make sure this is the case, the prerequisite checker looks for a few registry keys on the SQL server that the install is looking to use. To fix this error, delete the following keys from the SQL server.

 

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Operations Management\Components\SMS_SITE_SQL_BACKUP_<SITESERVERNAME>]

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\SMS_SITE_SQL_BACKUP_<SITESERVERNAME>]

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Components\ SMS_SITE_SQL_BACKUP_<SITESERVERNAME>]

 

After they are deleted, run the prerequisite checker again and viola!

 

I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.

Thanks,

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