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Table Of Contents
- Deployment and Configuration Guide
- Contents
- vCenter Operations Manager Deployment and Configuration Guide
- Introducing vCenter Operations Manager
- vCenter Operations Manager Architecture
- vCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Server Connections
- Integrating vCenter Operations Manager and the vSphere Client
- vCenter Operations Manager Licensing
- Certificate Warnings
- How vCenter Operations Manager Uses Network Ports
- Deployment Planning Worksheet
- Finding More Information
- System Requirements
- Installing vCenter Operations Manager
- Configure Network Parameters for the vCenter Operations Manager vApp
- Deploy the vCenter Operations Manager vApp
- Set the ESX Host Time
- Define the vCenter Server System to Monitor
- Assign the vCenter Operations Manager License
- Configure the SMTP and SNMP Settings for vCenter Operations Manager
- Configure the Default Sender in Email Notifications
- Install a Custom SSL Certificate for vCenter Operations Manager
- Grant Access to vCenter Operations
- Verifying the vCenter Operations Manager Installation
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Adapter
- Updating vCenter Operations Manager
- Updating Virtual Appliance Software to the vCenter Operations Manager vApp
- Upgrade Paths for vCenter Operations Manager
- Upgrade Requirements
- License Considerations for the vCenter Operations Manager Upgrade
- Add a Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine
- Upgrade the Virtual Appliances to the vCenter Operations Manager vApp
- Transition from the Old Virtual Appliances to the New vCenter Operations Manager vApp
- Index
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client inventory, select the target datacenter for the vCenter Operations Manager
deployment process.
2 Select the IP Pools tab.
3 Click Add to add a new IP pool.
4 In the properties dialog box, select the IPv4 tab.
5 Type an IP pool name that you can recognize during future testing of IP pools.
6 Enter the IP Subnet and Gateway in their respective fields.
Do not select the Enable IP Pool checkbox and do not specify a range of IP addresses. You specify the IP
address for the virtual machines in the vApp using the vApp OVF Deployment Wizard.
7 Select the DHCP tab.
8 Select the IPv4 DHCP Present check box if a DHCP server is available on this network.
9 Select the DNS tab.
10 Enter the DNS server information.
Enter the DNS Domain name of the DNS servers in your network in the IPv4 DNS Servers text box.
11 In the Associations tab, select the network for the IP pool.
Use this network when you configure a virtual machine network in the vApp OVF Deployment Wizard.
12 Click OK.
The IP pool facilitates the future use of a static IP address during the vApp deployment process. A DHCP
deployment can work without an IP pool but generates warnings in the vSphere Client interface. You can
ignore the warnings.
What to do next
Deploy the vCenter Operations Manager vApp.
Deploy the vCenter Operations Manager vApp
Download and deploy the vCenter Operations Manager vApp through the vSphere Client. VMware distributes
the vApp as a .ova file.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have permissions to deploy OVF templates to the inventory.
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Do not deploy vCenter Operations from an ESX host. Deploy only from vCenter Server.
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If the ESX host is part of a cluster, enable DRS in the cluster. If an ESX host belongs to a non-DRS cluster,
all resource pool functionality is disabled.
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Verify that the virtual machine network that you connect this vApp to has an IP pool and select that
network during the .ova deployment.
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Download the vCenter Operations Manager .ova file to a location that is accessible to the vSphere Client.
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If you download the vApp and the file extension is .tar, change the file extension to .ova.
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Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system with the vSphere Client.
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Do not select the transient IP allocation scheme during the deployment wizard.
vCenter Operations Manager supports only fixed and DHCP IP allocation.
Deployment and Configuration Guide
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