I have spent the last few days on this I am to the point where I need outside assistance.
I would like to deploy SQL Server 2012 as a service template to about 60 VM's. I have created a service template configured it following the below guide. Using the linked guide I also followed it for sys prep for SQL Server.
I do not know what I am doing wrong but it is still errors out. Can the instance name and ID not be the same? I installed SQL local following the guide. I followed the defaults steps for installing SQL. I during the install of SQL it grabbed some updates not present in the media I used to install SQL. Could this have a mismatch? Is the correct procedure not to 'patch' SQL during the install when using sysprep?
The below screenshots indicate the setup I used and show what the current instance Name and ID of the deployed machine currently is.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/how-to-deploy-sql-server-as-a-service-to-your-private-cloud/
VMM
SQL Server Profile
Instance Name: MSSQLSEVER
Instance ID: MSSQLSERVER
Media: C:\SQL\
Summary.txt Results
Overall summary:
Final result: Failed: see details below
Exit code (Decimal): -2068643838
Exit facility code: 1203
Exit error code: 2
Exit message: The state of your SQL Server installation was not changed after the setup execution. Please review the summary.txt logs for further details.
Start time: 2015-03-09 12:40:17
End time: 2015-03-09 12:41:12
Requested action: CompleteImage
Detail Logs from Deployed VM
the package is from previous product. the version does not matched because the source media is not provided.
VMM Logs
Error (22042) The service SQLDeploy was not successfully deployed. Review the event log to determine the cause and corrective actions. Recommended Action Ensure that source file is accessible to VMM and that the destination is a valid path. Error (22753) The script command with properties: Type (), Deployment Order () and Parent Type (), failed to complete successfully. Refer to the errors list for more information. Recommended Action If the script command's job restart action is set to restart, then the script will be re-executed. Otherwise, the script command will be skipped when the job is restarted, in which case corrective action should be taken to mitigate the effects of the script command failure. Error (21909) The script command exit code 2226323458 matched the regular expression [^0] that is specified in the failure policy. Standard output log data: The following error occurred: The state of your SQL Server installation was not changed after the setup execution. Please review the summary.txt logs for further details. Error result: -2068643838 Result facility code: 1203 Result error code: 2 Please review the summary.txt log for further details Microsoft (R) SQL Server 2012 11.00.3000.00 Recommended Action If the script command's job restart action is set to restart, then the script will be re-executed. Otherwise, the script command will be skipped when the job is restarted, in which case corrective action should be taken to mitigate the effects of the script command failure. Error (20400) 1 parallel subtasks failed during execution. Error (21952) Application deployment failed for one or more tiers or application hosts in the service SQLDeploy. Check job logs to get more information on the failed operation. Recommended Action Check error messages and retry the operation if needed.
Thanks for any asstiance on this on going issue.