Virtual Machine Manager to manage Hyper-V 2012 R2 Servers

Hi,
I am trying to create an environment wherein I have few Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts, Windows Server 2012 hosts, and Windows Server 2008 hosts. All are registered to a AD server.
On Windows Server 2012 host, I have created a virtual machine on which System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 is running. This Virtual Machine Manager is perfectly able to manage Windows Server 2008 hosts.
However when tried to add Windows Server 2012 hosts and Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts, it gives the following error:
Error (2916)
VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent windows2012.test.com was lost.
WinRM: URL: [http://windows2012.test.com:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [Associate], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/AgentManagement]
Unknown error (0x80338012)
Recommended Action
Ensure that the WS-Management service and the agent are installed and running and that a firewall is not blocking HTTPS traffic.
This problem can also be caused by WMI service crash. Ensure that KB 982293 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982293) is installed on the machine if it is running Windows Server 2008 R2.
If the error persists, reboot windows2012.test.com and then try the operation again.
Checked:
> WS-Management service is running
> VMM agent got installed
Questions:
1. Whether System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager is compatible to manage Hyper-V Sever 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 Server.
2. What is the latest version of VMM to manage Hyper-V Sever 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 Server.

Hello,
I have installed VMM 2012 R2, this is also not allowing me to add and manage Server 2012 R2 hosts. However it is perfectly able to manage Server 2008 host.
It gives following error when tried to add Server 2012 R2 hosts:
Error (2916)
VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent windows2012.test.com was lost.
WinRM: URL: [http://windows2012.test.com:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [Associate], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/AgentManagement]
Unknown error (0x80338012)
Recommended Action
Ensure that the WS-Management service and the agent are installed and running and that a firewall is not blocking HTTPS traffic.
This problem can also be caused by WMI service crash. Ensure that KB 982293 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982293) is installed on the machine if it is running Windows Server 2008 R2.
If the error persists, reboot windows2012.test.com and then try the operation again.
Any suggestions please?

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