Part IV (Installing SQL)
At this point depending on which System Center Product you are installing you may need to spin up more VMs. With SCOM you can create an all in one domain controller, SQL, SCOM Management Server though ultimately it is better to create a distributed environment with each of these items on a different VM. To save a bit on instruction writing I am going to create an all-in-one SCOM environment, but ultimately from this point it is easy to take what you have already learned to create a distributed environment. For excellent documentation on how to spin up test environments for each System Center product once you have Hyper-V and a domain controller in place I recommend taking a look at Kevin Holman’s quickstart guides:
Since screenshots can sometimes be a little bit more helpful I will walk you through a slightly more visual guide to installing SQL and then SCOM in Part V
Log into the Domain Controller with your sysctr account
Download SQL 2012 enterprise edition with SP1 x64
Right click and mount the media
Run setup
Select New SQL Server stand-alone
Click OK
Click Next
Click I Accept & Next
Click Next
Click Next
SQL Server All Features with Defaults– Next
Uncheck Distributed Replay Controller and Distributed Replay Client — Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Best practices would be to use individual accounts rather than a single account, but we will use the sysctr account
Click Next
Click Next
Add Current User — Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
Click Close