SCVMM 2008 R2 Upgrade to 2012 SP1

[Mabrito]

Working on testing an upgrade from SCVMM 2008 R2 to 2012 SP1. I am at the 2012 SP1 install and when I choose to connect to existing database, it wont connect and says I need to connect to a non SP1 vanilla 2012 database or a 2012 SP1 database...so apparently it looks like the upgrade path from 2008 R2 is 2008 R2 > 2012 > 2012 SP1.

Is there any way around this? Can the database scripts be ran manually possibly? Not sure if I can get regular 2012 media. Looks like any trials for regular 2012 are taken offline too.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

 

[Cardinals]

You cannot upgrade to 2012 sp1 from 2008 r2.

You should be able to get the 2012 media from the volume licensing portal.