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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
Install and Configure a Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System
To prepare your Windows machine for VCMinstallation, install the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating
system on each Windows machine in your installation configuration and verify that the settings are
configured for VCM operation.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the computer name settings for your Windows machine is a valid DNS machine name with
no underscores. If you attempt to change the machine name after the machine is identified as a
Collector, problems might occur with VCM, SQL Server, and SQL Server Reporting Services.
Procedure
1. Install Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on your Windows machine.
2. During the installation, you can configure several options.
Option Description
Regional and
Language
Options
Determines how numbers, dates, currencies, and time settings appear.
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Language: Setting for your language. The default is English.
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Time and currency format: Determines how numbers, dates, currencies, and time
settings appear. The default is English (United States).
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Keyboard or input method: Allows text entry for multiple languages. The default
is US.
Disk
Configuration
Allows you to separate the machine disk drive into partitions to store data in
different partitions. You can create new disk partitions and delete existing partitions.
After you configure the disk, select a partition to install Windows Server 2008 R2
Edition.
Product Key When the installation prompts, enter your product key.
Licensing
Modes
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition supports a single license that is included
with the product key.
Administrator
Password
The installation setup creates an account called administrator. To log on, you must
create a password that complies with the criteria. The password must have the
following attributes.
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Minimum of six characters
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Does not contain “administrator” or “admin”
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Contains uppercase letters
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Contains lower case letters
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Contains numbers
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Contains at least one non-alphanumeric character
3. Perform the initial configuration tasks to set the time zone and the computer name.
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