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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
Procedure
1. Click Start and select All Programs > Administrative Tools > Server Manager.
2. Click Features.
3. Verify that .NET Framework 3.5.1 appears in the feature summary.
4. If .NET Framework 3.5.1 does not appear, under Features select Add Features and select .NET 3.5.1.
Disable the Firewall or Add an Exception for SQL Server Port 1433
On the machine that is running SQL Server, to access SQLServer through a firewall, you must configure
the firewall or add an exception for port 1433. Port 1433 is the SQL Server default instance running over
TCP.
Procedure
1. To turn off the Windows domain firewall, follow these steps.
a. Click Start and select Control Panel.
b. Click System and Security.
c. Click Windows Firewall.
d. Click Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
e. Under Domain network location settings, click Turn off Windows Firewall.
2. To add an exception for SQL port 1433, follow these steps.
a. In Windows Firewall in the Control Panel, click Advanced Settings to open the Windows Firewall
with Advanced Security dialog box.
b. Click Inbound Rules and click New Rule.
c. Click Port and Next.
d. Click TCP, click Specific local ports, type 1433, and click Next.
e. Click Allow the connection and click Next.
f. Click Domain, uncheck Private, uncheck Public, and click Next.
g. Type a name for the rule and click Finish.
What to do next
Ensure that the installation creates the VCM databases. See "Configuring the VCM Database Server" on
page 47.
Configuring the VCM Database Server
To ensure that the installation creates the VCM databases, you must configure the VCM database server
before you install VCM. In a two-tier split installation configuration, the VCM database server resides on a
dedicated machine. The databases include VCM, VCM_Coll, VCM_Raw, and VCM_UNIX.
The SQL Server license includes SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In your two-tier split installation
configuration, when you run SSRS and SQL Server on the same machine, the SQL Server database
machine can take on the role of the Report Server (SSRS).
VCM 5.6 supports running SSRS on the Web server or on the database server in a split installation.
Depending on the separation of services in your environment, you might want to install SSRS on the Web
server machine in a split installation, because SSRS has its own Web server.
Two-Tier Split Installation
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