I did a rebuild of the Hyper-V hosts in the lab at work last week. I pushed out a bare metal install of the new ISO for WS2012 R2 with \u201cThe Update\u201d (April 2014). I used SCVMM 2012 R2 UR1 to push out the image to the iDRAC cards on the Dell R420 hosts. Afterwards I used SCVMM to cluster the two hosts.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t like SCVMM\u2019s patching system \u2013 it\u2019s very SMS 2003 R2, requiring waaaay too much clicking every month. I much rather use Failover Clustering Cluster Aware Updating (CAU). I fired up Failover Cluster Manager (FCM) on my central administration machine, and tried to configure CAU self-updating. And I couldn\u2019t because I kept getting this error:<\/p>\n
\nFailed to load ClusterAwareUpdating module on "<Node Name>"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Hmm. It took me a moment or two, and then I knew what was wrong. SCVMM enable Hyper-V OK. And it enables Failover Clustering. But SCVMM does not install the Remote Administration Tools \u2026 and that means the PowerShell module for Failover Clustering was missing from both of the hosts. There was no way to configure CAU on the hosts because the requierd PowerShell cmdlets were missing.<\/p>\n
Into Server Manager and I enabled the following feature: Remote Server Administration Tools > Feature Administration Tools > Failover Clustering Tools. Now the cmdlets were there and CAU was fine.<\/p>\n
Dear SCVMM, please enable the administration bits (or give us an option to do it) when you enable roles\/features. Your patching sucks and FCM is much better at it.<\/p>\n
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