So I seem to be stumped. We have some old Citrix Presentation Manager servers running on Win 2003 that my boss would like to retire, and replace with Remote Desktop Services under Server 2012. The catch is that these servers would VMs, running under VMware ESXi 5.0 (that's what the current Citirix servers are). If you install all the latest ESXi 5.0 patches, then you can run Server 2012 VMs. That part is running fine.
But I can't seem to install RDS. (the last time I used even Terminal Services was on Win 2003, over 5 years back). Following this blog post <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj554307.aspx> I am trying to install RDS. But it keeps failing on RD Virtualization Host step - all it says is that it failed. The other 2 steps (Connection Broker and Web Services) installed fine. I don't see anything in the Event log that is telling me WHY it failed. I am seeing Event 9645 from source MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID. Message is "An error occurred in the service broker manager, Error 3602, State: 145". And I can't seem to track down what this means. The online Event log help is no help (it never seems to be, for me). I haven't found it in eventid.net, and Google isn't showing me anything close to my situation. So let's start at the beginning: 1. Is this even possible - can you run RDS on Server 2012 as a VM under ESXi 5.0? Or is that trying to run one virtualization technology (Hyper-V) under a different virtualization technology (ESXi)? (eventually we want to publish an application or two, not a lot, and no need of a full desktop, as I understand it). I know MS says you shouldn't (or can't) run Hyper-V inside of Hyper-V, but it doesn't seem to say anything about Hyper-V inside any other virtualization - ESXi, XenApp, etc. 2. If it is possible, what am I missing? The article didn't mention any pre-requisites I don't have. I have Server 2012 as a domain member in my Win 2008 R2 AD domain. So far, I am not liking Server 2012. :-) (and I haven't started in on that Metro interface ...) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
