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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Advanced Installation Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Achieving a Successful VCM Installation
- Hardware Requirements for Collector Machines
- Software and Operating System Requirements for Collector Machines
- Preparing for Installation
- System Prerequisites to Install VCM
- Configure Resources to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine
- Secure Communications Certificates
- Single-Tier Server Installation
- Configure a Single-Tier Installation Environment
- Verify that the Installing User is an Administrator
- Install and Configure a Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System
- Install the .NET Framework
- Configuring the Database Components of the VCM Collector
- Configure the Web Components
- Configure SSRS on the VCM Collector
- Configure the VCM Collector Components
- Two-Tier Split Installation
- Configuring a Two-Tier Split Installation Environment
- Verify that the Installing User is an Administrator
- Install and Configure a Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System
- Configuring the VCM Database Server
- Disable the Firewall or Add an Exception for SQL Server Port 1433
- Install SQL Server on the Database Server
- Verify and Configure the SQL Server Properties
- Verify Matching SQL Server and Computer Names
- Verify the SQL Server Agent Service Account is a sysadmin
- Select the SQL Server Agent Service Account
- Establish SQL Server Administration Rights
- Configure the Combined VCM Collector and Web Server
- Three-Tier Split Installation
- Installing VCM
- Configuring SQL Server for VCM
- Upgrading or Migrating VCM
- Upgrading VCM and Components
- Upgrading Virtual Environments Collections
- Migrating VCM
- Prerequisites to Migrate VCM
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace Your Existing 32-Bit Environment with a Supported 64-bit Environment
- Migrate a 32-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.6
- Migrate a 64-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.6
- Migrate a Split Installation of VCM 5.3 or Earlier to a Single-Tier, Two-Tier...
- How to Recover Your Collector Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Hardware and Operating System Requirements for VCM Managed Machines
- VCM Agent Support on Non-English Windows Platforms
- VCM Managed Machine Requirements
- Windows Custom Information Supports PowerShell 2.0
- Supported OS Provisioning Target Systems
- Software Provisioning Requirements
- UNIX and Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Requirements
- Support for VMware Cloud Infrastructure
- vCenter Operations Manager Integration Features
- FIPS Requirements
- Agent Sizing Information
- Hardware and Software Requirements for the Operating System Provisioning Server
- Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Index
Configure Resources to Install VCM on a
Virtual Machine
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Configure Resources to Install VCM on a
Virtual Machine
To install VCM on a virtual machine, you must prepare the virtual machine to be used as a VCM Collector.
Because VCM can place heavy workloads on the database, you must understand your environment
workloads to determine the resource requirements.
For the VCM Collector to operate properly on a virtual machine, the virtual machine must satisfy several
prerequisites to run SQL Server on a VMware virtual machine.You should provision the VCM virtual
machine similar to a high throughput OLTP database application.
Use these guidelines to install VCM in development, test, or IT environments. For large scale
environments, you might need to alter the requirements.
IMPORTANT Do not install VCM on an ESX server that has over-allocated resources.
Prerequisites
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Follow the requirements for physical hardware.See the VCM Installation Guide.
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Perform the system prerequisite tasks. See the VCM Installation Guide.
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Follow the best practices to install SQLServer. See the Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Best Practices
Guide available on the VMware Web site at http://www.vmware.com.
Procedure
1. "Configure the Disk to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine" on page 27
Configure the disk for the virtual machine. For large scale environments, you might need to alter the
requirements.
2. "Configure the CPU to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine" on page 27
Configure the CPU for the virtual machine. For large scale environments, you might need to alter the
requirements.
3. "Configure the Memory to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine" on page 28
Allocate the memory for the virtual machine. For large scale environments, you might need to alter
the requirements.
What to do next
Familiarize yourself with the certificate names in advance so that you can select them during installation.
See the VCM Installation Guide.
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