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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
a. Select Windows Authentication mode, which is recommended.
b. Although SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode is acceptable for VCM, select Windows
Authentication mode, which is recommended.
5. Select and confirm the Database Settings page server properties.
a. For Default index fill factor, type or select a percentage value, which specifies the amount of free
space in each index page when the page is rebuilt.
Set the fill factor to 80% to keep 20% free space available in each index page.
b. For Recovery interval (minutes), type or select 5.
6. Click OK to save your changes.
What to do next
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Restart the database machine.
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Configure the Web server, which contains the Web applications. See "Configuring the Web Server" on
page 66.
Configuring the Web Server
The Web server contains Web applications such as IIS and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), other
services, and VCM software components. Before you install VCM, you must configure the Web server.
The SQL Server license includes SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In your three-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.
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.
This three-tier installation includes the installation of SSRS as a component on the Web server, and applies
this role to the IIS Web server.
Verify the Server Role Services on the Web Server
On the Windows Server 2008 R2 Web server machine, verify that the correct server role services are
installed, and add them if they are not installed.
Prerequisites
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Download and install SQL Server 2008 R2 Command Line Utilities, which includes the SQLCMD utility,
X64 Package (SqlCmdLnUtils.msi). The SQL Command Line Tools in the SQLī ±Server 2008 R2 Feature
Pack are required on the Web server. See the Microsoft Download Center.
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