I just wasted a couple of hours troubleshooting this error 0xE000100 while installing Windows 2012 R2 on VMM 2012 SP1 (older version). At first I thought there was some data corruption, ended up downloading the ISO again, to no avail. Then I thought maybe you cannot install R2 on older VMM. I started googling the requirements for 2012 R2. After much googling I found out the problem. I created the VM with dynamic RAM, using the default 512MB startup and 10GB max. THAT is the problem. Check this out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387077.aspx Under setup for virtual machines section, they say: If you create a virtual machine with the minimum supported hardware parameters…

Wanna find out what VM is running on which server in your SCVMM cluster? This PowerShell script does it for you! (run it on the VMM server’s Virtual machine manager Command Shell) Get-SCVirtualMachine | Select-Object -property HostName, Name, Description | Sort-Object -Property HostName | Export-Csv .\vm-list.csv Here is another one which you can run to find which VMs are currently running. This is useful in case you want to shut all of them down using some script. Get-SCVirtualMachine | where {$_.StatusString -eq “Running”} | Select Name | Sort-Object -Property Name | Export-Csv .\vm-list.csv