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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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