Today I was at Microsoft Sweden and did a webinar on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V and System Center VMM. This was the first of 5 webinars that Microsoft have this week focusing on the highlights on the new release.
The webinar was in Swedish and I will post a link to it when it will become available!
I am a firm believer that Servers should not be used for the wrong things and thus I have now installed the new System Center VMM 2016 on a Windows Server 2016 Core.
In my home lab I do not have so many hosts so I have used the opportunity to install the SQL 2016 on the same core instance.
As I am installing the SQL on the same machine I had to enable the .net 3.5/2.0 feature on this server and yes I know and can´t agree more, please remove this requirement dear SQL team and move to the future!
SQL 2016 does not support installing via the wizard on server core so I used the command line way (by the way based on this information req page it is not supported on Windows 2016 core yet 😉 )
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Setup.exe /qs /ACTION=Install /FEATURES=SQLEngine,Replication /INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER /SQLSVCACCOUNT="vniklas\sqlsvc" /SQLSVCPASSWORD="<StrongPassword>" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="vniklas\sqladmins" /AGTSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\Network Service" /TCPENABLED=1 /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS |
Although it is not supported with the wizard for sql install on core it do show some progress through a graphical dialog…
So once that was up and running I installed the ADK for windows 10, and I used the one for Windows 10 1607.
And then I could start the VMM install. And yes there is a command line way of installing the VMM but this time I wanted to see if I could use the wizard in core!
During the installation the wizard complained about my memory that I had assigned to the VM that I was installing on and I could with the superduperfeature in 2016 add more to the running VM without doing any stop and start!
After that I had no more issues and the installation completed successfully!
Well once installed I had to do some patching as at the same time VMM 2016 was released Microsoft also announced the availability of CU1 🙂 and trying to use the short cut from the installation dialog fails on a Server core as those GUI parts are not present! I can though use the Sconfig and the “Download and install updates” option to get the updates I want…
Happy playing!
Revised: Based on the SQL req page that have been updated it now is supported to run on SQL standard and from SQL 2012 SP2, the following link on the VMM page though still says 2014 Enterprise but that will be updated. My MVP friend Anders Asp have got info that I share here:
“Official MSFT statement: That is likely a carry over from earlier TP content when we had a bug that installation would fail on Std SQL(TP3?). Standard should work.”
//As you can see the System Center VMM 2016 GA will require a SQL 2014 Enterprise or later, so you will not be able to use a standard SQL to be supported. So if you are upgrading from a VMM 2012 R2 you will also have to upgrade your SQL to the Enterprise level.//
The SQL instance solely used for the System Center is included in the System Center licensing.
Today You might have seen that Windows Server was released and available from Volume center and MSDN etc.
I had previously reinstalled my Hyper-V node at home with a new 2016 eval media and now I wanted to activate it with a license to not have it time out in 170 days
Going into the control panel and trying to change keys was not the way to do it!
Reading about how to do it in 2012 R2 gives a hint that I should use DISM to set the new key instead
And then after two reboots I log in and can verify that my license have been applied 🙂
And if you wonder about 2016 KMS keys you can find them on technet on this link!
So the day has come when Windows Server have arrived at Microsoft Azure and you can start deploying your new workloads.
You either find the different flavours from the portal or from PowerShell
And the command for finding them with PowerShell AzureRM module is
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Get-AzureRmVMImageSku -Location "westeurope" -PublisherName 'MicrosoftWindowsServer' -Offer 'WindowsServer' | where Skus -match 2016 |
and running it looks like this:
Good luck in deploying!
During Ignite 2016 in Atlanta, Microsoft announced the technical preview 2 of AzureStack and finally now this friday I got my hardware available (the dang server was not responding on the ILO port and I had to go to the datacenter to give it a kung-fu-devops-kick) so I could deploy the new bits.
First things first! Read the documentation about how to proceed and you will more likely succeed in your deployment!
The download for AzureStack is 20 GB so if you have a slow internet connection it will take some time!
Before getting started i suggest you to run the pre-check script that can tell you if there is some immediate issues,
And then you can unpack and follow the instructions to prepare to vhd-boot into the cloudbuilder disk with the next script:
Once rebooted you want to make sure that you only have one nic enabled and then kick of the deployment which will take about 2-3 hours if you have a decent hardware like me 😛
As you can see the install process uses both desired state and powershell direct (which is a lovely feature in Hyper-V 2016)
And if you are patient and then log in as a azurestack\AzureStackAdmin on the physical machine you will see the status of the deployment. Do not log in as a local user on the server and try to start the deployment again!
Hopefully you will end up with the same result as me:
And then you can log in to the VM MAS-CON01 to connect to the portal,
Maybe I was lucky but I believe that the Stack-Team has done some serious work since TP1 and the deployment process have been thoroughly developed, tested and works really good now.
Good luck in your deployment of Azurestack TP2!
So last week I was at Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta and had a great time with all attendees and speakers and the wonderful staff that guided all of us 23 000+ there!
Of course the Swedish Chef tagged along and was hanging with some cool people! And as you can see in low right corner, my friend Fredrik could not be at Ignite in person but had the brilliant possibility to join with a remote controlled robot that he explored the different areas with…
There was some good stuff presented there also and here is a list of the best sessions and there are probably a hundred more that I have not seen yet so there might be a revised list later 😉 :
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If you as I want a big library of ppt´s and videos of this event you can go to your friend PowerShell and download all available presentations with a great script from Mattias and Michel. So start exploring and please add your favorites in the comments below!
Quite an impressive list of new stuff in the Hyper-V are with 2016 release, and then you of course also have the new stuff in Clustering and storage to add to this but that will be another blog post 🙂
Read more at the technet site here.
Hi and hello,
As you maybe know by now the System Center 2016 suite and Windows Server 2016 was released this week during the Ignite conference in Atlanta
I have updated my script that you can use to download the Evaluation VHD´s with all System Center 2016 roles in an easy format ready to import into Hyper-V
Enjoy and start playing!
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# Download SC 2016 VHD Eval # # Niklas Akerlund / 2016-10-01 [CmdletBinding()] param([switch]$SCVMM,[switch]$SCOM,[switch]$SCDPM,[switch]$SCORCH,[switch]$SCSM,[switch]$All,[string]$Dest='C:\VHDEVAL') # Check if the folder exists if(!(Get-Item $Dest -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) { New-Item -Path $Dest -ItemType Directory } # SCVMM if($SCVMM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53886' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCOM if($SCOM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53888' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCORCH if($SCORCH -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53889' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCDPM if($SCDPM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53890' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCSM if($SCSM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53887' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } |