Installation guide

Configuring VMware Cloud
Infrastructure
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Configuring VMware Cloud Infrastructure
VCM collects information from your instances of vCenter Server, vCloud Director, and vShield Manager
so that you can then use the information to manage and maintain your virtual environment.
The collected data appears in the Console under the Virtual Environments node. The information is
organized in logical groupings based on the information sources, including vCenter Server, vCloud
Director, and vShield Manager.
Based on the collected virtual environments data, you can manage the objects and data at an enterprise
and individual level, including running compliance rules and reports; running actions, such as changing
settings and taking virtual machine snapshots; and managing the guest operating systems as fully
managed VCM machines.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Virtual Environments Configuration 23
Configure Virtual Environments Collections 25
Configure Managing Agent Machines for Virtual Environment
Management 26
Obtain the SSL Certificate Thumbprint 29
Configure vCenter Server Data Collections 29
Configure vCenter Server Virtual Machine Collections 35
Configure vCloud Director Collections 37
Configure vCloud Director vApp Virtual Machines Collections 41
Configure vShield Manager Collections 47
Configure ESX Service Console OS Collections 50
Configure the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In 56
Virtual Environments Configuration
To manage your virtual environments, you collect vCenter Server, vCloud Director, and vShield Manager
data. To collect the data, you use one or more Managing Agent machines.
After configuring your Managing Agent machines, you add and configure your vCenter Server, vCloud
Director, and vShield Manager instances in VCMto use the Managing Agent for communication. For a
diagram illustrating how the components are configured together, see Figure 3–1. Virtual Environments
Configuration Diagram.
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