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For installing System Center 2016 with Windows Server 2016 And SQL Server 2016 We need several Steps. As this will be a first step in deploying VMM this blog will cover the basic install of VMM. In case you need more just let me know and I’ll post the unattended files.
First install a Windows Server 2016 Server and as I use a single Server as VMM Server I install Also SQL Server 2016 on this server. This is not real best practice but in my demo this is no issue. For installation I used the 5 minute install option https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrHfPZcPsko
All based on a unattended file.
Now that the SQL server 2016 and the windows server 2016 are in place we start the Setup of VMM 2016
To start with the 2016 products this is the place to be https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-technical-preview
System Center Evaluations
These first few steps are easy just press next. but for the ADK kit you need the latest version!
So where can I find this version? just go to the System Center Evaluations site and download the kit there
here are the links for downloading the kit
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/dn913721.aspx
https://insider.windows.com/
in case you are a insider you can download the kit there.
You only need to install the Deployment tools and the Windows PE items.
After the installation of the Windows Assessment deployment toolkit recheck the installation of the VMM server.
Again a new missing software component the SQL Command line utility
Get the utility’s here download and install them
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36433
Microsoft® Command Line Utilities 11 for Microsoft SQL Server®
The SQLCMD utility allows users to connect to, send Transact-SQL batches from, and output rowset information from SQL Server instances. The bcp utility bulk copies data between an instance of Microsoft SQL Server and a data file in a user-specified format. The bcp utility can be used to import large numbers of new rows into SQL Server tables or to export data out of tables into data files.
Microsoft® ODBC Driver 11 for Microsoft SQL Server® – Windows
The Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server provides native connectivity from Windows to Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Azure SQL Database.
in the utility’s there is another download that you will need for the installation. In the setup I noticed that you can better abort the setup and start again now with all the prereqs in place
Use the SQL Server 2016 with a new Database Use a service account to handle the user rights or use the system account. But better and more secure is using a Service account. Ad this point I also want my SQL management studio As it is not best practice to install the studio on the SQL server 2016 I need to download this for my later blog items. As it is not default installed in SQL server2016
After restarting the System Center Virtual Machine Manager setup every thing is fine follow the wizard and fill in the blanks. Store the distributed key in the Active directory and use a different service account to run the VMM services.
Now that the Setup is complete You can run the VMM console.
But running all items on one server you may need a service adjustment. When rebooting the server and starting the SQL services the VMM services may fail to start. So in this case I use a delay starting of the vmm services just in case.
So now that the VMM console is in place you can build the other components and configure the SCVMM server for optimal usage.
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They spent their summer analyzing customer pain points regarding networking in VMM and have developed a small tool that should help ease the frustration with setting up VLAN-isolated networks in VMM. To help you get started quickly with networking in VMM and to simplify the process of creating new networks, we have created a UI add-in.
An entire basic networking setup can be created with this tool that can either be applied to hosts directly or used as a generic networking object base to be modified for customization to your configuration. VMM Network Builder compresses the steps required to build a logical switch. This tool will create networks that utilize VLAN isolation and is not purposed for creating NVGRE networking configurations.
and this is to bad the creation of a NVGRE network is often not easy.
Download the VMM Network Builder tool here : http://www.microsoft.com/en-my/download/details.aspx?id=43975
An quick installer Takes you to the next step. You need to import the Console or just run this from the installation folder.
import add in console in the settings you can pick the import console add in.
Normally you would go to the installer folder but now the .Zip is on your desktop odd place ( I was looking in the installed folder )
After the import there is an extra Icon in the title bar “ build a network “
Starting the VMM Network Builder
I already have a management Network and the VMM Network Builder won’t create a second one.
I’ll pick my creative name VMMBAD VMM Builder Address Device
Create a IP pool and a if you want a static pool.
then make a choice, I’ll pick to a host.
I pick a host for this network.
And in VMM you can see this network as created, with the vlan and the IP subnets
A lot more options are in the tool. Play with the tools and maybe it is the right thing for you.
Download the VMM Network Builder tool here : http://www.microsoft.com/en-my/download/details.aspx?id=43975
System Center All Up: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/
System Center – Configuration Manager Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
System Center – Data Protection Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
System Center – Orchestrator Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
System Center – Operations Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/
System Center – Service Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
System Center – Virtual Machine Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm
Windows Intune: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsintune/
WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/
The AD RMS blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmssupp/
App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv
The Forefront Endpoint Protection blog : http://blogs.technet.com/b/clientsecurity/
The Forefront Identity Manager blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ms-identity-support/
The Forefront TMG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/
The Forefront UAG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/
At Teched 2014 NA a new preview was launched the ‘Advisor Limited Public Preview’ service. If you don’t have an account you can create one here
https://preview.systemcenteradvisor.com/
More info is below on the Channel 9 site :
VIDEOS
Advisor Preview 2min Overview Video: http://aka.ms/unrpst
Advisor Preview Onboarding Steps Video: http://aka.ms/Lgt2zu
Advisor Preview TechEd announcement Video: http://aka.ms/Aulpqc
There are some great new features to test these are not default there you need to add them
Below is a nice overview of the rules that you can switch on or off.
Go for the preview