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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
18 VMware, Inc.
Datastore Requirements
VirtualmachinesandmediafilescanresideonVMFSandNFSdatastores.Formore
informationaboutdatastoresandmediastores,seetheLab ManagerUser’sGuide.
VMwarerecommendssharedstorage(NFS,iSCSI,orFiberChannel).VMwarealso
recommendsusingasmallnumberoflargeSANVMFSpartitionsratherthanalarge
number
ofsmallpartitions.
ThefollowingareVMFSdatastorerequirements:
Thedatastoremusthaveenoughspaceforthechainofdeltadisksgeneratedfrom
virtualmachineoperations.Thechaincannotspanmultipledatastores.
Forvariouschanges,Lab Managerfreezestheoriginaldeltadiskandcreatesanew
one.Thechainlengthindicateshowscatteredthevirtualmachineimageisacross
thedirectories
ofadatastore.
Forinformationaboutchainsanddeltadisks,seetheLab ManagerUser’sGuide.
AVMFSdatastoremustbeconfiguredintheESXsystem.
YoumustsetupVMFSpartitionsoutsideofLab ManagerthroughVirtualCenter.
SeetheVMwareInfrastructure3documentationat
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35.html
ThefollowingareNFSdatastorerequirements:
TheNFSservermustbeaccessibleinread‐writemodebyallESXhosts.
TheNFSservermustallowread‐writeaccessfortherootsystemaccount.
AnNFSdatastoremustbeconfiguredintheESXsystem.
Touseadatastoreformedia,youmustconfigureitasamediastoreinLab Manager.
Youcanusethesamedatastoreformediaandvirtualmachinestorage,aslongasyou
usedifferentdirectories.
Toenableadatastoreformediaand
additasaLab Managermediastore,seethe
Lab ManagerUser’sGuide.