Reviewing minimum requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V environments
This topic lists the system requirements and access and privileges required to implement provisioning of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. The topic includes the following sections:
System requirements (Microsoft Hyper-V)
To employ BMC Server Automation in an Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environment, you must meet the following minimum requirements.
System requirements for all SCVMM versions
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) installed
- Hyper-V role enabled
- PowerShell 2.0 installed
- The following SCVMM versions and corresponding Windows platform versions are supported:
- SCVMM 2008 R2 is supported on Windows 2008 R2 and on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
- SCVMM 2012 SP1 is supported on Windows 2012 SP1
- The Application Server must be allowed access to the target through the RSCD agent on the SCVMM server.
BMC Server Automation only supports provisioning virtual machines only from Hyper-V generation 1 templates.
Additional requirements for SCVMM 2012 SP1
Host should be Windows server 2012.
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 must be installed on the SCVMM 2012
- To enable BMC Server Automation to execute Powershell commands on the SCVMM setup, set the Execution Policy. On SCVMM Setup, open a Powershell command prompt, and run the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
- Ensure that Windows templates and Linux templates are created as described in Creating Generation 1 Virtual Machine Templates on SCVMM.
- Create at least one VM network, to which the VMs can connect.
For SCVMM 2012 SP1, only VM Network of type noIsolation is supported. Apply a workaround in Windows 2012 server to point to .NET 4.0 version.
- If virtual floppy disk creation fails using Imdisk, then install IMdisk manually. The Imdisk installer is packaged with SCVMM CO. To install the Imdisk tool manually, do the following:
- Go to the following location:
RSCD_Install_DIR\daal\Implementation\BMC_SCVMM_win64\win64\imdiskinst
- Run the following command:
Install.cmd
- Go to the following location:
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