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VMware vCenter AppSpeed Installation and Upgrade Guide
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Install an AppSpeed Probe
You can install a probe on one host at a time, or you can install a probe on multiple hosts at the same time. You
can also install more than one probe on the same host.
When you install a probe in AppSpeed, distributed vSwitches do not appear in the Probe Installation window.
To monitor these switches, you must configure the AppSpeed probe. See “Configure AppSpeed with
vNetwork Distributed Switching” on page 17.
Procedure
1Click Home > Solutions and Applications and click the AppSpeed icon.
2(Optional) If the AppSpeed icon does not appear, verify that the AppSpeed plug-in is enabled in the
Plug-ins menu.
3Click the Administration tab and select Probes Management.
4 Select the check boxes for one or more hosts or clusters on which to install a probe and click the Install
Probes button.
A probe is installed on each selected host, regardless of whether another probe is already installed on the host.
When you select the check box for a cluster, the check boxes for each host that it contains are selected.
Similarly, when you select a host, the probes already installed on it are selected.
The Probe Installation window displays a separate entry for each host that you select. Each entry appears
in a separate pane.
5 Configure the probe for each probe entry, as described in “Configure the Probe for Each Host Entry” on
page 14.
6 (Optional) To add another probe to a host, click Install another probe on this host at the bottom of
the host entry and configure the probe, as described in “Configure the Probe for Each Host Entry” on
page 14.
7 When you finish adding host-probe combinations, click the Install Probes button.
8 Review the installation information, and click OK.
Alternatively, click Back to return to change any of the settings.
The installation progress is indicated in the Probe Status column in the Probes Management window.
Upon completion, the new probe is added to the <namespace> Probes folder in the vSphere Client. The
probe is powered on and set up.
9 Delete the AppSpeed Server virtual machine snapshot after you finish deploying all the probes.
Configure the Probe for Each Host Entry
Optionally, you can configure the probe for each host entry that is displayed in the Probe Installation window.
Consider using local storage, which enables faster probe deployment.
The probe also connects to the management network you specified, but it does not monitor the network
Prerequisite
If you have only distributed virtual switches on your host, you must first create a temporary vSwitch, and
install and deploy a temporary probe.
This means that you must either install a probe to monitor the vSwitch, or install a probe that uses the vSwitch
as a management NIC.