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VMwarevCenterAppSpeedprovidesperformancemanagementandservice‐levelreportingforapplications
runningwithinvirtualappliances.AppSpeedanalyzesthetrafficthatflowsbetweenendusers,Web
applications,andback‐endservers.Thisanalysisprovidesvisibilityintomultitierapplicationsandenables
rapididentificationofperformanceissuesoriginatingfrominadequateresourceallocationand
application
problems.
AppSpeedisinstalledonaVMwarehostmachinethatresideswithinthedatacenternetworkandintegrates
intoboththeVMwarevSphereClientandtheVMwareVirtualInfrastructure(VI)Client.AppSpeedis
installedonacentralizedserver,withoneormoreAppSpeedprobesinstalledoneachhosttobe
monitored.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
 “InstallationWorkflow”onpage7
 “InstallationPrerequisites”onpage7
Installation Workflow
AppSpeedisIavirtualapplianceinOpenVirtualizationFormat(OVF).TheAppSpeedplug‐inisinstalledin
thevSphereClientorVIClient.
Youperformtheinstallationandsetupprocessinthefollowingstages:
 ImporttheOVFfileandconfiguretheAppSpeedserver(see“InstallingandConfiguringtheAppSpeed
Server”onpage9)
 InstalltheAppSpeedplug‐inintheClient(see“InstalltheAppSpeedPlug‐In”onpage13)
 InstalltheAppSpeedprobesusingtheAppSpeeduserinterfacewithintheClient(see“Deployingthe
AppSpeedProbes”onpage13)
 AddavalidAppSpeedlicensekey(see“A d d i n g aLicense”onpage15)
 Verifythesuccessfuldeploymentoftheprobes(see“ManagingSSLKeys”onpage16)
Installation Prerequisites
ThefollowingVMwareESX™andvCenterversionssupportAppSpeed:
 ESX,version3.0.x,3.5.xor4.0x
 vCenterServer,version2.5x,orvSphere4.0
AppSpeed Installation Overview
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NOTEToupgradefromapreviousversionofAppSpeedtoamorerecentversion,seeChapter5,“Upgrading
AppSpeed,”
onpage23.