Damn, SCVMM Not Supported
Funny, but sometimes changes occur with very little warning and SCVMM 2012R2 has had some that I keep tripping over. Within the fantastic EMC Solution Center in Sydney, Australia which I am fortunate to have a great collection of toys (oops, I meant IT equipment) to play with (again... I meant to say develop and test against) I have come across this issue a few times but find it very difficult to dig up information related back to it.
It relates to the extensive and must say, fantastic set of PowerShell cmdlets that come with System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Firstly the initial changes were very obvious, 2008->2012 the cmdlets started to prefix the command with 'SC', An example of this is that Get-VMMServer became Get-SCVMMServer.
This in itself makes absolute sense, you need a unique identifier when your environment could have multiple libraries that may provide the same cmdlet such as happens with a cmdlet like Get-VM which is supported by vSphere, SCVMM and Hyper-V Powershell libraries so no problem there. What did happen though is Microsoft, I assume to soften the impact, did support the old cmdlets via aliases. These aliases were retired with the release for 2012R2 which I also fully understand as you need to move on eventually, so whats the problem?
The issue is that not everyone has moved onto the cmdlets even though they have had a good chunk of time. My guess this may be because they didn't need to change so why bother, until now. Anyway I have been caught out with this issue with products from both Microsoft (e.g. Team Found Server's Lab Center) and VMware (vCloud Automation Center).
So if you find something is not supporting SCVMM 2012R2 but did 2012SP1, this is not a bad place to start looking at when trying to determine why.
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