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Table Of Contents
- Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introducing Lab Manager and the Installation Process
- Installation Requirements and Recommendations
- vSphere 4.0 Requirements and Recommendations
- Datastore Requirements and Recommendations
- Lab Manager Server Requirements and Recommendations
- Operating System and Framework
- CPU Speed
- Processor
- Hard Disk
- Memory
- Network
- CD or DVD Drive
- System Clock
- Lab Manager Server Recommendations
- Install IIS on the Lab Manager Server for Windows 2003
- Install IIS 7.0 on the Lab Manager Server for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Check the Version of an Existing .NET Framework Installation
- Install the .NET Framework on the Lab Manager Server
- Credential Requirements for Connecting to vCenter Server from Lab Manager
- Web Console Access Requirements
- Network Requirements
- Security Requirements and Recommendations
- Installing Lab Manager
- Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0
- Supported Upgrades
- Upgrading from Lab Manager 3.x
- Upgrading from Stage Manager 1.x
- Upgrading ESX Server
- Index
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide
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Processor
PentiumIII,Pentium4,Xeon,Opteron,orAthlonprocessor
Hard Disk
40GBminimum
(Recommended)RAID1orRAID5forfaulttolerancebenefits,orRAID0+1forfaulttoleranceand
performancebenefits
Memory
512MBminimum
(Recommended)2GBormore
Network
AtleastoneunboundEthernetcard
ItsNICmustbephysicallyconnectedtothenetwork(nowirelesscards)andhaveastaticIPaddress.
(Recommended)GigabitEthernet
MachinecannotrunasaWindowsdomaincontroller
Fullyqualifieddomainname(FQDN)
CertainfeaturesofLab ManagerrequireanFQDN.ThisrequirementdoesnotmeanthattheLab Manager
serverresidesinadomain.
AnFQDNstartswiththecomputernamefollowedbytheDomainNameSystem(DNS)suffix(for
example,computer_name.mydomain.com).VMwarerecommendsthatyouavoidusinganIP
address
becausecomplicationsmightariseatalatertimeifyouchangethataddress.Forexample,changingthe
IPaddressrequiresregeneratingthecertificatebecausethecertificatedependsonthisFQDN.
CD or DVD Drive
FortheLab Managerserver,youmightneedaCDorDVDdrivetoaccesstheWindowsServer2003CD‐ROM
whileconfiguringIISandMicrosoft.NETFramework.See“InstallIISontheLab ManagerServerforWindows
2003”onpage 13.
System Clock
EnsurethatthesystemclocksareinsyncwiththeclocksonallmachinesinvolvedintheLab Manager
deployment(Lab Managerserver,vCentersystem,ESX/ESXihosts,clientmachinesaccessingtheWebconsole,
fileservers,andsoon).Thissynchronizationallowssupportstafftoquicklypinpointissuesinlogs.
See“InstallingandConfiguring
NTPonVMwareESXServer”intheVMwareknowledgebase.
Lab Manager Server Recommendations
InstallLab Managerserversoftwareonavirtualmachine.
DonotinstalltheLab ManagerserversoftwareonaphysicalorvirtualmachinethatcontainsvCenter
Serversoftware.IfyouhaveLab ManagerserverandvCenterServersoftwareinstalledinseparatevirtual
machines,thesevirtualmachinescanresideonthesameESX/ESXihost.
IftheLab ManagerserverrunsinavirtualmachineonanESX/ESXihostunderLab Managercontrol,
certainoperationsaffectallvirtualmachines,suchasUndeployallVMsandRedeployallVMs.
These operationsdonotaffectvirtualmachinesonthesameESX/ESXihostthatareoutsideof
Lab Managercontrol.