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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
Software Provisioning
Component Description Requirements
VMware vCenter
Configuration Manager
Package Studio
Application used to the create the software packages. .NET 3.5.1
or higher
Software Repositories File system used to store the shared software packages. .NET 3.5.1
and IIS 6, 7,
or 7.5
Package Manager Application on each managed machine that downloads
packages from repositories, and installs and removes the
software contained in the packages.
.NET 3.5.1
or higher
Table 15–4. Software Provisioning Component Requirements
You can use any virtual machine guest on VMware ESX and ESXi Servers that meets these requirements
for any of the VCM Software Provisioning components.
UNIX and Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Requirements
VCM 5.6 supports UNIX patch assessments and deployments for various machine types and operating
systems. The PLS files used for UNIX patch assessments require 20MB of disk space.
Supported Operating System Supported Hardware
AIX 6.1 RISC and PowerPC
AIX 7.1 RISC and PowerPC
HP-UX 11i v1.0 (11.11) (up to 5.5.0 Agent only) PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23) (up to 5.5.0 Agent only) Itanium
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23) (up to 5.5.0 Agent only) PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) Itanium
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) PA-RISC
Mac OS X 10.6 (up to 5.5.0 Agent only) Intel-based Apple platforms only
Mac OS X 10.7 Intel-based Apple platforms only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6.0, 6.1,
6.2, 6.3, Server, Desktop with Workstation, and Advanced Platform
x86 and x64 (includes Intel and
AMD architectures, excludes
Itanium)
Solaris 10 Sparc, Sparc-V9, x86, and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.3–10.4, 11.0–11.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0–10.2 (up to 5.5.0 Agent
only)
x86 and x64 (includes Intel and
AMD architectures, excludes
Itanium)
Table 15–5. UNIX/Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Operating System and Hardware
Requirements
VCM 5.6 provides UNIX patch assessment content in a new format for the following operating systems.
Hardware and Operating System Requirements for VCM Managed Machines
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