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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
Installing VCM
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Installing VCM
After you perform the system prerequisite tasks and configure your installation configuration, understand
the components to select during VCM installation, enable DCOMξ ±and the required ports, then use the
installation image to start Installation Manager and install the appropriate VCM components on the
physical and virtual machines in your installation configuration.
For a single-tier installation configuration, install all of the available components.
For a two-tier installation configuration, install the following components.
Database Server Components Combined Web and VCM Collector Server Components
VCM Database Components SSRS 2008 for VCM Reports
VMware VCM Package Manager for Windows VCM Web Console
SSRS 2008 for VCM Reports (Optional if you install
it on the combined Web and VCM Collector)
VCM Collector Components
(Optional) Other Tools (Optional) SSRS 2008 for VCM Reports
Import/Export Utility
Foundation Checker
VMware VCM Package Manager for Windows
VMware VCM Package Studio
For a three-tier installation configuration, install the following components.
Database Server Components Web Server Components VCM Collector Server
Components
VCM Database Components SSRS 2008 for VCM Reports VCM Collector Components
VMware VCM Package Manager for
Windows
VCM Web Console Import/Export Utility
(Optional) SSRS 2008 for VCM
Reports
VMware VCM Package Manager for
Windows
Foundation Checker
(Optional) Other Tools VMware VCM Package Studio VMware VCM Package Manager for
Windows
(Optional) Other Tools (Optional) Other Tools
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