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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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Hardware and Operating System
Requirements for Managed Machines
Hardware and Operating System
Requirements for VCM Managed Machines
VCM collects data from Windows and UNIX machines that VCM manages. The VCM Agent is supported
on many different machine and operating system types.
VCM Agent Support on Non-English Windows Platforms
If you install the VCM Agent on non-English (non-ENU) Windows machines, and collect data from these
machines, review the following dependencies and limitations.
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You might need additional language packs on Windows machines where VCM administrators run the
VCM Web console interface to display non-western data that VCM collects from these machines.
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Non-English versions of Microsoft patches in Spanish, French, and Danish are currently supported.
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Compliance rules that refer to Services must use the internal names rather than the display names,
because the display names might be localized.
VCM Managed Machine Requirements
VCM can manage various machines and operating systems. The table below lists the supported
VCMAgents, operating system, and hardware platforms.
If the list of supported machines and operating systems does not include your specific combination of
platform and operating system, contact VMware Technical Support to confirm whether your
configuration is supported by a later version of VCM.
Machines that are noted with a specific Agent version are supported with the Agent version listed. For
machines that are noted with support up to the a certain Agent version, you could install an earlier version
of the Agent on these platforms, but you cannot install a newer Agent, which means that you cannot use
the latest features on those machines. Contact VMware Technical Support for previously supported
Agents.
The following x64 platforms are tested.
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Windows: Intel64 and AMD64
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Linux: Intel64 and AMD64
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Solaris: Intel64
Itanium is not supported for Windows or UNIX/Linux, except for HP-UX for Itanium servers.
Machines marked with an asterisk (*) include a pre-VCM 5.2.1 Agent and might not report the name of the
operating system correctly. You should upgrade the Agents on these machines.
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