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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
If you install SSRS on the Web server, it requires an additional SQL Server license, because you are
installing SSRS on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that is separate from the SQL Server database
services. If you run SQL Server Enterprise Edition, all SQL Server services running in guests on a single
virtual machine host are covered by the Enterprise Edition license.
VCM operates with a Standard or Enterprise edition of SQL Server. You must install the 64-bit SQL Server
2008 R2, English (United States) version on your designated database server machine and verify that the
settings are configured correctly for a VCM installation. For information about installing the VCM
Collector on a non-English operating system, see the VMware knowledge base article at
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035034.For information about VCM Agent support on non-English platforms,
see the VMware knowledge base article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2008337.
Prerequisites
n
Perform the prerequisite steps for the combined VCM Collector and Web server machine before you
configure the database server, which can include SQL Server Reporting Services. See "Installation
Prerequisites for Both Servers" on page 45.
Install SQL Server on the Database Server
In a two-tier split installation configuration, the VCM database server resides on a dedicated machine. The
database server contains the VCM, VCM_Coll, VCM_Raw, and VCM_UNIX databases. You must
configure the VCM database server before you install VCM in a two-tier split installation configuration.
CAUTION If your Windows machine has an evaluation version of SQLServer StandardEdition or
Enterprise Edition, use it only for evaluation purposes. Do not use an evaluation version in a
production environment, because it is not officially supported for production.
Prerequisites
n
Obtain the SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise or Standard edition installation disk or verify access to a file
share where the installer resides.
Procedure
1. Start the SQLServer 2008 R2 installation.
2. Perform the following actions to install SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise or Standard edition.
Wizard Page Action
SQL Server
Installation
Center
Click New installation or add features to an existing installation.
Setup Support
Rules
Click Install and verify that all of the rules pass. To view the detailed system
configuration check report, click the link.
Setup Support
Files
Click Install to install the setup support files.
Setup Support
Rules – for
SQL Server
Setup support
files
Verify that all of the rules passed.
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