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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
Contents
About This Book 7
Achieving a Successful VCMInstallation 9
VCM Collector and Agent OS Platform Support 9
Hardware Requirements for Collector Machines 11
Determine the Size of Your Environment 11
Identify Your Specific Hardware Requirements 12
Database Sizing for Managed vCenter Server Instances 12
Hardware and Disk Requirements By Number of Managed Machines 13
Software and Operating System Requirements for Collector Machines 15
Sizing Impacts on Software Requirements 15
Software Installation and Configuration Overview 15
VCM Upgrades and Migrations 16
Preparing for Installation 17
VCM Installation Configurations 17
System Prerequisites to Install VCM 19
Establish Local Administration Rights 20
Verify Browser Compatibility 21
Verify the Default Network Authority Account 21
Verify the SQL Server Service Account 21
Specify the Collector Services Account 22
Verify the VMware Application Services Account 22
Verify the VCM Agent is Not Installed 23
Configure Resources to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine 25
Configure the Disk to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine 26
Configure the CPU to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine 26
Configure the Memory to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine 27
Secure Communications Certificates 29
Authenticating the Server to the Client 29
Enterprise and Collector Certificates 30
Delivering Initial Certificates to Agents 30
Single-Tier Server Installation 33
Configure a Single-Tier Installation Environment 34
Install and Configure a Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System 35
Configure IIS 36
Install the .NET Framework 38
Configure the Database Components of the VCM Collector 38
Install SQL Server on the VCMCollector 39
Verify the SQLXML Version 41
Configure the Web Components 41
Two-Tier Split Installation 43
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