Users Guide

Install and register the plug-in

This chapter describes installation prerequisites and procedures to install, upgrade, uninstall, repair, and access the plug-in.

The plug-in registration process requires the following vCenter Server information:

● vCenter Server IP/hostname

● Username of a local administrator account on the vCenter server

● Password of the vCenter administrator account

NOTE: You must install and register the plug-in with administrator rights.

Topics:

• Installation prerequisites

• Install the plug-in

• Start and stop the system service

• Upgrade the plug-in

• Uninstall the plug-in

• Run commands in silent mode

• Access the plug-in

Installation prerequisites

Perform the following one-time procedure before the first-time the plugin is installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Cent OS

system:

1. Install JDK v1.8 using the following command:

sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel

NOTE: If you do not have more than one version of Java installed on the host, perform the following steps.

a. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk

b. Update the PATH variable value by using the following command:

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

c. Edit the /etc/profile file using any text editor and add the following two lines:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

NOTE:

You must provide the exact path of the JDK for JAVA_HOME for your environment. The path shown above is

just an example.

2. Install the Zip and Unzip utilities:

sudo yum install unzip

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