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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager 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
- Two-Tier Split Installation
- Three-Tier Split Installation
- Configuring a Three-Tier Split Installation Environment
- Installation Prerequisites for All Servers
- Configuring the VCM Database Server
- Configuring the Web Server
- Verify the Server Role Services on the Web Server
- Verify the IIS Server-Side Includes Role Service
- Verify the ISAPI Extensions
- Install the .NET Framework
- Verify the Authentication Settings
- Install SQL Server on the Web Server
- Install SQL Server 2008 Utilities
- Place the Web Server in the Internet Explorer Trusted Zone
- Configuring SSRS on the Web Server
- Configuring the VCM Collector
- Configuring Additional Components for a Three-Tier Environment
- 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
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Simple Recovery: The VCM database settings are set to Simple by default. The transaction log retains
enough information to recover the database to a known good state when the server restarts.
Transaction log backups are not allowed and point-in-time recovery is not available. Simple recovery
causes the transaction log file to grow. SQL Server is in Auto Truncate mode, so the log file periodically
rolls over as data moves from the log file to the data file.
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Bulk Logged Recovery: The transaction log retains all normal transaction information and discards
transactions that result from a bulk operation. VCM uses the IROWSETFASTLOAD interface extensively,
which is bulk logged.
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Full Recovery: The transaction log retains all information until it is purged through the SQL Server
LOG backup operation, which the database administrator uses to perform point-in-time recovery. Full
recovery allows incremental backups of the database. Do not use point-in-time recovery, because
certain factors in VCM weaken the point-in-time recovery model. If you implement Full Recovery, you
must set up scheduled daily backups of the transaction log. The log files will continue to grow and
accumulate changes until you back them up. A Full Recovery database that does not have scheduled
backups can fill its disk and stop the system.
Configure Database Recovery Settings
SQL Server supports several database recovery models to control transaction log maintenance. Set a
specific recovery model for each database.
The VCM database settings are set to Simple by default. If you change the VCM database recovery setting
to Full, you must manage your own log backups.
Prerequisites
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Understand the database recovery models. See "Database Recovery Models" on page 115.
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