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Today I received my MSDN pack for January 2008 with the latest orange Server DVD disk. The DVD contains System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 . In this tutorial I will go though the process of installing the SCVMM 2007 on my linked VMWare clone guest image. After the SCVMM manager is working I will than create new full clone of this linked clone image and import the VMWare image into System Center Virtual Machine Manager. My goal is to install SCVMM in VMWare and than import the image within SCVMM and run the image with Virtual Server 2005 R2.Based on the Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition I will create new linked clone named REF-SCVMM-01. Make sure the computername contains no ‘-’. Otherwise the installation will fail!

Make sure the requirements are there before starting the installation of SCVMM. The guest image needs to on a active directory domain and .net framework 2 installed. WindowsServer2003-KB926139-x86-ENU Powershell and WindowsServer2003-KB936059-x86-ENU Windows Remote Management should also be installed.

Click Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007

Click Install Virtual Machine Manager server

Click Next

Accept the License agreement and click Next

Select Use Microsoft Update and click Next

Select Yes and click Next

Click Next

Click Next; verify the hardware requirements. I used 768MB for this virtual guest.

Install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. Choose database location if needed. You are required to have 5GB free on a volume. Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Installation process

SCVMM 2007 has been installed now

Install VMM Administrator Console

Go to Administration and add new hosts.

I add two Virtual Server 2005 R2 hosts from my lab environment.

Shutdown the SCVMM virtual guest ; right click and select Clone

Select Create a full clone

Full clone of SCVMM guest machine has been created and I will copy the source now to the SCVMM Library share which is located on a host running Virtual Server 2005 R2. Refresh the share. Default setting is to refresh once every 60 minutes. Right click on the vmx file and choose Convert Virtual Machine.

Click Next

Check the virtual machine name and click next

Select a available host and click next. In my example I was not able to choose any of the two available because the vmware guest was configured with 768MB ram.

Select local Path and click next

Review the additional properties and click Next.

Review the summery and click Create.SCVMM will start the conversion of the vmware virtual guest vmx file to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. I did not click create but copied the script from View Script button and went to Windows Powershell - Virtual Machine Manager

Open notepad and paste the text below and run it in powershell.

# ——————————————————————————

# Convert Virtual Machine Wizard Script

# ——————————————————————————

# Script generated on Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:55:15 AM by Virtual Machine Manager

#

# For additional help on cmdlet usage, type get-help <cmdlet name>

# ——————————————————————————

$LibraryServer = Get-LibraryServer -VMMServer localhost | where {$_.Name -eq "ref-vmh-05.delta.almatis.corpnet"}

$VmHost = Get-VmHost -VMMServer localhost | where {$_.Name -eq "ref-vmh-05.delta.almatis.corpnet"}

New-V2V -LibraryServer $LibraryServer -VMXPath "\\ref-vmh-05\Library\REF-SCVMM-02\REF-SCVMM-02.vmx" -VmHost $VmHost -Path "D:\" -Name "REF-SCVMM-02" -Description "" -Owner "NETWORKNET\Ivan" -RunAsynchronously -RunAsSystem -UseHardwareAssistedVirtualization $true -StopAction SaveVM

Status of the conversion:

At some point the V2V conversion failed. I reviewed the job and last step which is finishing the virtualization job fails. I have no additional information why it fails and ends with Error 402 Library Server not associated.

I went back to the Virtual Server 2005 host and start VMRCPlus client and reconfigured memory, add cd-rom drive,nic1 and attached the virtual disk file.

Start Virtual Machine.

Install VM additions and remove VMWare tools.

For more information go to SCVMM 2007 website.