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Windows Server 2003 Standard/Web/Enterprise (32 bit and 64 bit)
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Windows Vista (32 bit and 64 bit)
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Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit)
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Credentials with Log on as service privileges on the system where the Guided Consolidation server is
installed must be provided at the time of installation. If Active Directory is deployed on your network,
the provided credentials must also have sufficient privileges to query the Active Directory database.
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File and Printer Sharing must be enabled on the system where Guided Consolidation is installed and
enabled on all systems targeted for analysis. Windows XP Simple File Sharing is insufficient.
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Guided Consolidation extension must be installed, enabled, and running on the vSphere Client.
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At least one datacenter inventory object exists.
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At least one host is registered with vCenter Server.
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Guided Consolidation requires administrator access to the systems selected for analysis. Specifically, the
vCenter Collector Service uses these credentials to connect to and retrieve configuration and performance
data from the physical systems under analysis. Accounts must be fully-qualified and can be any of the
following:
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account of the target system.
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account of the target system domain.
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account of a trusted domain of the target system.
Network Connections
The Guided Consolidation server must have access to the ports listed in the Table 8-1.
Table 8-1. Network Connections
Port Protocol Service Description MS Windows
135 TCP/UDP Loc-srv/epmap Microsoft DCE
Locator service, also
known as End-point
Mapper.
DHCP Server
DNS Server
WINS Server
137 TCP/UDP Netbios-ns NetBIOS names
service.
Firewall
administrators
frequently see larger
numbers of incoming
packets to port 137.
This is because of
Windows servers that
use NetBIOS (as well
as DNS) to resolve IP
addresses to names
using the
gethostbyaddr()
function. As users
behind the firewalls
visit Windows-based
Web sites, those
servers frequently
respond with
NetBIOS lookups.
WINS Server
DNS Server
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