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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
requirements
Agent Proxy 126-127
collector software and OS 15
disk configuration 13
installation 9
managed machines 121
Managing Agent 126
operating system 121
OS Provisioning server 133
software sizing impacts 15
split installation ports 82
UNIX/Linux agent machines 125
UNIX/Linux patch deployment 125
VCM CPU on virtual machine 26
VCM disk space on virtual machine 26
VCM memory on virtual machine 27
VCM on virtual machine 25
resource for VCM on virtual machine 25
RSA Enhanced Validated Modules 129
S
scripts for collection use PowerShell 123
secure certificates 29
Security Guide for VCM
certificates 29
system prerequisites 19
server
provisioning, operating system 133
server authentication 29
Service Console OS for ESX 126
services account
for collector 22
Services Management console 22
settings
database recovery 116
settings to customize components 113
single-tier installation 17, 33
components 33
configuration 34
prerequisites 34
procedure 35
size of environment 11
sizing worksheets 11, 13
software
collector 15
managed machines 121
software provisioning 124
software provisioning 124
split install 33, 43, 59
split installation 17
migration 109
SQL Server
configure 85
database 54, 73
database settings 85
disk IO configuration 86
evaluation version 15, 39, 48, 63, 69
installing 64-bit 39, 48, 63, 69
maintenance plan 117
performance 85
processor settings 86
properties 65
RAID levels 86
SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS)
backup keys 72
SQL XML 59
SQLIO for IO channel throughput 89
SQLXML version 41, 50, 63, 77
SSRS
back up keys 72
configure 54
dashboard errors 72
generate reports 52, 54, 72
user permissions errors 72
Web service errors 72
status of agent installed 23
supported agent machines 121
supported platforms
provisioning, operating system 124
system checks 19
system prerequisites 19, 45, 60
T
TFTP
provisioning, operating system 142
three-tier split installation 17, 59
prerequisites 60
procedure 60
throughput with SQLIO 89
TLS
server authentication 29
trust
certificate 30
chain 30
two-tier installation
procedure 44
two-tier split installation 17, 43
prerequisites 44
U
uninstall
provisioning, operating system 139
uninstall agent 23
MSI installer 23
UNIX/Linux agent
communication settings 114
data file sizing 132
machine patch assessment 125
platform support 94
upgrade 94
upgrade local package 95
upgrade remote package 96
unregister vSphere Client VCM Plug-in 97
update statistics for database 118
upgrade
agent proxy machine 98-99
agent proxy machine manually 100
agents 91
provisioning, operating system 149
UNIX/Linux agent 94
UNIX/Linux agent local package 95
UNIX/Linux agent remote package 96
VCM 16, 91-92
VCM Remote client 94
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