The first step in our upgrade from Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V is to upgrade the VMM server. I decided to upgrade the operating system before upgrading the VMM 2008 R2 installation. Of course, a Windows Server Backup job was run to start things off.
I mounted the ISO for the OS installer in ILO and ran the upgrade. That took a while. When I logged in I found that NIC teaming was broken. Uh-oh! I downloaded HP PSP 8.30 and ran that. Another reboot. Still no NIC teaming.
I found out which of the EXE’s was the installer for the HP NCU and re-ran it. It told me this version of the OS was unsupported. So much for HP support for Window Server 2008 R2 in HP PSP 8.30!
Here’s the simplest way to do some application compatibility. I right-clicked on the installer and selected properties. I opened the compatibility tab. In there I ticked “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” and selected “Windows Server 2008 (Service Pack 1)”. Now I reran the installer. All was well and I could enable NIC teaming.
I figure that I’ll be waiting a while longer before upgrading our Hyper-V hosts 🙁 Anyway, until then, I’ll upgrade VMM 2008 to VMM 2008 R2.