e for the test and development environments. It will enable you to evaluate VMM for Hyper-V Network Virtualization. While supported, it is highly recommended that a multiserver deployment is implemented for production. A multiserver installation can give you a great deal of flexibility and resiliency in a VMM installation. Getting ready It is assumed you have reviewed the recipe and have implemented the required elements for installing VMM. How to do it The following diagram shows you the high-level steps involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete this recipe: Overview of Recipe: Prerequisites (not covered by this recipe): Obtaining the SQL Server and VMM ISO files Creation of a virtual machine for SQL and VMM Actions: Adding the .NET 3.5 Framework to Windows Server 2012 R2 Installing SQL Server 2012 SP1 Installing VMM 2012 R2 This will result in the following applications and their components being installed on this single server: SQL Server 2012 SP1 for the VirtualManagerDI database VMM 2012 R2 Management Server with the VMM Console and VMM Library To install VMM, you must install SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 or higher. This recipe will discuss installing SQL Server 2012 SP1 Standard Edition, which is included in the System Center license. Chapter 1 .NET Framework SQL Server 2012 requires the .NET 3.5 Framework. The source files for this are not installed on a Windows Server 2012 (or higher) installation by default. To add the .NET 3.5 Framework, you will need access to the Windows Server 2012 R2 DVD/ISO content. The following PowerShell must be executed from an elevated PowerShell console: Install-WindowsFeature -Name Net-Framework-Core -Source D:\sources\sxs Administrator: Windows PowerShell PS C: AWindows\system32> 1-WindowsFeature Name Net- ramework-Core -Source D:\sources\sxs Success Restart Needed Exit Code Feature Result ======= True No Success {.NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and... WARNING: Windows automatic updating is not enabled. To ensure that your newly-installed automatically upda