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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
What to do next
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Reboot the Web server machine.
Install SQLServer 2008 Utilities
The SQL Command Line Tools in the SQLServer 2008 R2 Feature Pack are required on the Web server for
a three-tier installation.
This installation also requires SQLXML to provide client-side XML functionality and enhancements to
existing SQL features. SQLXML 4.0 SP1 is installed with SQL Server 2008 R2.
Prerequisites
Verify that you can access the Microsoft Download Center to download the utilities in the following
procedure.
Procedure
1. Connect to the online Microsoft Download Center.
2. Download and install SQL Server 2008 R2 Command Line Utilities, which includes the SQLCMD utility,
X64 Package (SqlCmdLnUtils.msi).
3. Download and install the Native Client (sqlncli.msi).
Place the Web Server in the Internet Explorer Trusted Zone
To ensure that Internet Explorer can delegate the VCM user's credentials to the Web service for use with
SQL Server, you must place the VCM Web server in the Internet Explorer Trusted Zone.
When the VCM Web server is in the trusted zone, users can disable navigation into the trusted zone from
less privileged zones, which reduces the potential of cross-site scripting. When the Web server is not in a
trusted zone, the browser cannot authenticate the Web server.
Procedure
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click Tools and select Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. In the Select a zone to view or change security settings area, click Local intranet.
5. Click Sites.
6. In the Local intranet dialog box, click Advanced.
7. In the Add this website to the zone area, type the host name and click Add.
8. Click Close.
9. Click OK and click OK again.
Configuring SSRS on the Web Server
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based report generation software system that is
administered using a web interface and used to deliver VCM reports.
Before you configure SSRS, you must back up your SSRS key and clear the Internet Explorer Protected
Mode.
Three-Tier Split Installation
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