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Table Of Contents
- Installation and Configuration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Before Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
- System Requirements
- Installation and Configuration Checklist
- vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Database Configuration
- Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
- Managing Program Groups
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Collector
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Adapter
- Installing the Analytics Processor
- Index
VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise Installation and Administration Guide
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Database Server Requirements
vCenterOperationsEnterpriserequiresanSQLorOracledatabasetostoredata.Thedatabaseservershould
bededicatedtothevCenterOperationsEnterprisedatabase.Thedatabasemustbeconfiguredandavailable
tothevCenterOperationsEnterpriseServerhost.
vCenterOperationsEnterprisesupportsthefollowingdatabaseserversandversions.
Oracle10gRelease2
Oracle11gRelease2
MicrosoftSQLServer2005SP2orlater
MicrosoftSQLServer2008
NOTEMicrosoftSQLServerissupportedonlyonWindowshosts.Thecomputerthathoststhedatabase
servermustmeetminimumhardwarerequirements.
N
OTEYoucannotuseIntegratedWindowsAuthenticationwhileusingtheMicrosoftSQLserver.TheJDBC
driversupportstheuseofType2integratedauthenticationonWindowsoperatingsystemsthroughthe
integratedSecurityconnectionstringproperty.Touseintegratedauthentication,copythe
sqljdbc_auth.dllfiletofolder%ALIVE_BASE%/common/bin.
2GBRAM
Two32‐bitCPUs,P42GHzorfaster
Forsystemsthatcollectmorethanonemillionmetrics,thedatabaseserverhostshouldhave8GBRAMand
two64‐bitCPUs.
ThepingtimebetweenthedatabaseserverhostandthevCenterOperationsEnterpriseServerhostshouldbe
lessthanonemillisecond.
Hardware and Software Requirements for Client Systems
Table 2-2. Client System Hardware and Software Requirements
Component Required
RAM Atleast2GB
Browser
InternetExplorer7.xor8.x
MozillaFirefox3.x
Javascriptmustbeenabled.Popupblockersmustbeeitherremovedordisabled.
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