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Table Of Contents
- Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introducing Lab Manager and the Installation Process
- Preparing to Install Lab Manager
- Installing Lab Manager
- Upgrading Lab Manager
- Supported Upgrades
- Before Upgrading
- Installing a VirtualCenter Server
- Undeploying Virtual Machines and Removing Managed Servers
- Backing Up the Lab Manager Database
- Uninstalling the Managed Server Agent Software
- Uninstalling the Program Files for Lab Manager Server
- Installing the Lab Manager Server Software
- Upgrading ESX Server
- Configuring a VirtualCenter Server
- Upgrading and Configuring Lab Manager
- Understanding the Upgrade
- Index
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide
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Lab Manager Server Requirements
YoucaninstallLab Managersoftwareinavirtualmachine.Donotinstallthe
Lab Manager Serversoftwareonaphysicalorvirtualmachinethatcontains
VirtualCenter Serversoftware.IfyouhavetheLab Manager Serverand
VirtualCenter Serversoftwareinstalledinseparatevirtualmachines,thesevirtual
machinescanresideonthesameESXhost.See“Guidelinesfor
Installinga
VirtualCenterServerandLab ManagerServerSoftware”onpage 9.
Operating System and Framework
MicrosoftWindowsServer200332‐bitEnterpriseEdition(ServicePack1orhigher)
orStandardEdition(ServicePack1orhigher)
Lab ManageronlysupportsEnglish(UnitedStates)regionalsettings.
InternetInformationServices(IIS)6.0
See“InstallingIISand.NETFrameworkonLabManagerServer”onpage 16.
Microsoft.NETFramework2.0(ServicePack1orhigher)
YoumustinstallIISbeforeyouinstall.NETFramework.
CPU Speed
550MHzminimum
(Recommended)1GHzorfaster
Processor
PentiumIII,Pentium4,Xeon,Opteron,orAthlonprocessor
Hard Disk
40GBminimum
(Recommended)RAID0orRAID5forperformancebenefits
Memory
512MBminimum
(Recommended)1GBormore