Converting physical servers to hyper-v hosts

Hi,
Can we
We are running windows hyper-v server 2012 R2 and having many VM's running on the hypervisor. we would like to convert few of our physical machines to virtual.
how do we convert a physical sever to hyper-v virtual machine ?
what factors should we take into consideration?
which tools should we use to accomplish this task ? could you please provide any document or links for the same.
Thanks.

Is SCVMM 2012 SP1 a free tool or do we need buy the license ?
NO, it;s not free.
Where do we need to install the SCVMM ?
You can install to VM.
can we install it on any computer on the network or it should be on any of the specific machine ?
System Requirements for System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
SCVMM 2012 R2 – QuickStart deployment guide
is there any option in Hyper-V VMM to convert P2V?
NO
You can try
Using Disk2VHD for Hyper-V P2V (Physical to Virtual) Conversions
How to perform a P2V in a SCVMM 2012 R2 environment
How to clone physical machine into Hyper-V 2012
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The current setup is a physical server with locally attached storage and a secondary DPM server in another site (which is already virtual). Both DPM servers were recently upgraded to DPM 2012 R2 and are running Windows 2012.
I would like to use the same hardware but run DPM as a virtual server and attach the physical disks in Hyper-v as pass-through disk. I don't have enough hardware to do a side by side migration (which would be much easier)
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Your plan will work. You will be able to use the existing drives as long as you bring them into the VM, restore the DPM DB and run
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VMM 2012 R2: error 410 / 0x80070001 when adding a new Hyper-V host. VMM Agent won't install automatically (status 1603)

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Error (410)
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as of now) by just clicking on its MSI file in Windows Explorer (and agreeing to the Windows prompt to run it with elevated privileges), the installation fails as well with "Installation success or error status: 1603." in the
server Application log.
The only way I found to install the agent is to run the installation from command prompt with elevated privileges. In this case the installation finishes successfully, and I can add the host to VMM by marking the "Reassociate the host" checkbox
in the VMM wizard.
Why is it so? Isn't the agent supposed to install without manual intervention? As I recall, I had no such problem with previous versions of Windows Server and VMM.
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I brought up the share because it is off by default with Hyper-V Server as well as a Core installation. Regardless of the Firewall policy involved.
Maybe, but I don't work with pure Hyper-V and Core servers. I have a full-fledged Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter.
You're correct that File Server role is not enabled by default, this is my mistake. I open SMB-IN port manually (with the help of a group policy), and Windows considers it to be am equivalent of the enabled File Server role. Nonetheless, ADMIN$ share is
always accessible in my environment (and without it, for example, I wouldn't be able to remotely install things like SCOM Agent which installs without a glitch). Just in case I manually installed the File Server role, and it didn't help.
What you say about multihomed servers is interesting. The servers in question do have multiple network interfaces, but at the time I tried to install the VMM Agent only one of them (a designated host management / network access interface) had a real IP address.
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after start. Anyways, after the VMM Agent is installed manually the host can be normally re-associated with VMM, so it's doubtful that I have a network issue.
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So I still believe that is has something to do with the Windows Installer inability to configure Windows Firewall policy after being invoked from Windows Explorer with a double-click on a MSI file. But I don't know how to strictly confirm it.
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How to get notified when changes happen on Hyper-V host or VMs

Is there a way to get notified on Hyper-V host or VM changes? Our intention is to notify the system-administrators on any changes.
1. How to get notified when new VM is created (or deleted) on Hyper-V.
2. How to get notified when any memory/CPU/disk is added (or deleted) on any VM(s).
In general:
- Get notified when any changes happens to Hyper-V host.
- Get notified when any changes happens on any VMs.
Our target servers are Windows Server(2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2)
We tried to get the notification using "Event Viewer" on different Windows servers (2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2)
We were able to get event-logs only on one of our 2012 R2 server as described below on creation/deletion of VMs (on another 2012 R2 server, we did not got any such event, Is there any setting required on host computer to get Hyper-V event-logs in "Event
Viewer"?)
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS
Date: 12/18/2014 1:21:45 AM
Event ID: 13002
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: HPHyper-V.COMPUTERNAME.lab
Description:
A new virtual machine 'TestVM' was created. (Virtual machine ID A0FED305-7B1A-4BB5-952C-BA9634ACDA45)
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS
Date: 12/17/2014 10:57:01 PM
Event ID: 13003
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: HPHyper-V.COMPUTERNAME.lab
Description: The virtual machine 'TestVM' was deleted. (Virtual machine ID A0FED305-7B1A-4BB5-952C-BA9634ACDA45)

Thanks for your reply,
Just to make it more clear:
In our environment we have enabled Hyper-V on following Windows servers: 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008. The environment is very dynamic, VMs are getting created and deleted very frequently. Our intention is to get notified by any means on VM creation/deletion,
currently we are relying on event-logs (we are OK with any different mechanism for such notification if there exists, i,e other than event-logs)
We were able to get event-logs only on few of our 2012 R2 server on creation/deletion of VMs. On another 2012 R2 server, we did not got any such event (do we need to make some settings on 2012 R2 to get events? If yes, what are those settings).
Also we are not getting any such event of VM creation/deletion on our Windows Server 2012, 2008, 2008 R2. Is there any setting required on hese host computer to get Hyper-V event-logs in "Event Viewer" for VM creation/deletion?

How do I get RDP Access to Hyper-V host when DC and DHCP server is down and is a VM on that host.

My host machine is a Windows Server 2012 running SBS 2008 as a VM.
How can I configure a Hyper-V environment to allow me to RDP into the Hyper-V host in order to start individual VM's.
It seems that without the DC running (which happens to be a VM on the same host) the host does not have an IP address that I can RDP to. I also cannot assign it a static IP.
With the VM DC running I can RDP into that and then RDP from that to the Hyper-V host but I would like to be able to have the ability to access all VM's and be able to start and stop them as required, remotely.

The SBS 2008 server has a static IP and the NIC on the Hyper-V host is used by the Virtual Switch so a static IP cannot be assigned to the NIC on the Hyper-V host.
If you only have one physical adapter in your Hyper-V host and it's hosting the virtual switch, then you'll need to create a virtual adapter on it for the host to use.
You can check the "Allow management operating system to share this network adapter" in the "Virtual Switch Manager" inside "Hyper-V Manager". You'll automatically get a network adapter that shows up with the others on that system where you can give it IP
and DNS information.
You can also do it in PowerShell:
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Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (Mgmt)" -ServerAddresses ###.###.###.###, ###.###.###.###
Then you'll have an IP you can connect to from remote systems.
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