Manage Azure with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager #SCVMM 2012 R2 #UR6

With Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2 UR6) you have the option to manage Azure Virtual machines.

What you can do with this feature
If you already manage your on-premises virtual machines in Virtual Machine Manager, you can use this feature to perform some very basic actions on Azure instances without leaving the VMM console. For example, you can do the following:

• Add or remove one or more Azure subscriptions by using the VMM console.
• See a list view of details and statuses of all role instances in all deployments in that subscription.
• Manually update the list of instances.
• Perform the following basic actions on the instances:
  • Start
  • Stop
  • Shutdown
  • Restart
  • Connect through RDP

 

I tried to get this done all by PowerShell but it failed on me during lack of time to test this.

So basically you need a Azure Management Certificate

What you need to do is create a Certificate We use makecert and as you need the whole studio for just the makecert you can download the file from my onedrive http://1drv.ms/1GMrelk

What we need is just a display name , azure Subscription ID and a Certificate.

In my example you will need the Azure PowerShell Module.

You can download and install the Azure PowerShell modules by running the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. When prompted, click Run. The Web Platform Installer installs the Azure PowerShell modules and all dependencies. Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

First we make a self signed Certificate.

c:\makecert -sky exchange -r -n "CN=clustermvpazureFake" -pe -a sha1 -len 2048 -ss My "c:\clustermvpazureFake.cer"

Now that I have a Certificate I can upload this in my personal store.

Import-Certificate -FilePath "c:\clustermvpazureFake.cer" -CertStoreLocation ‘Cert:\currentuser\My’ -Verbose

sure you can do this manually but this is faster.

the next step is get my subscription ID

The basic steps to get my subscription is always the same get my publish file an list all my subscriptions

Import-Module Azure
Import-Module "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\PowerShell\Azure\Azure.psd1"
Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile
Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile "c:\azureapril.publishsettings"
Get-AzureSubscription

Selecting my Subscription.

Select-AzureSubscription "MVP-Cluster"

 

Getting my ID in just some easy steps I get my ID

$getauzsub= Get-AzureSubscription | Where-Object {$_.Subscriptionname  -eq "MVP-Cluster"}
$azuresubid = $getauzsub.SubscriptionId
$azuresubid

This ID You can copy past this from the PowerShell into the GUI and selecting my certificate that we just created and imported in the store.

 

 

And As you will get a warning : The Subscription could not be authenticated by azure. Ensure that your Certificate and Subscription ID are valid.

We forgot to Upload the Certificate to Azure.

As there are many post on the web to upload the management certificate with PowerShell it all failed on me. So we upload the certificate by hand.

Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $azuresubname -SubscriptionId $azuresubid -Certificate $getCert

 

Uploading the just created Certificate to Azure.

In the Azure portal go to settings on the bottom and select management Certificates

And on the bottom there is an upload option you can select the Certificate and the subscription just make sure this will be the same as in the VMM console

 

Now that the certificate is uploaded we go back to the VMM console and press finish and in a few seconds the Azure content is loaded in the VMM Console.

and Easy starting and stopping with the RDP is there real handy one step closer a a real hybrid Cloud.

 

Happy clustering

Robert Smit

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https://robertsmit.wordpress.com

MVP Profile : http://mvp.microsoft.com