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ThischapterintroducesthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserverinstallation.Itcontainsthe
followingsections:
“Overview”onpage 7
“A r c h i t e c t u r e onpage 7
Overview
InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseconsistsoftwoprocedures:
1 PreparingadatabaseineitherSQLServerorOracletoholdthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise
data.
2 InstallingthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesoftware.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseisdesignedasanenterprisesolution,soplanningandpreparingyour
environmentiscriticalto
successfuldeployment.Youshouldconsiderseveralfactorswhenplanningyour
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseenvironment:
Environmentsizeandlandscape—thevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisearchitectureneedstotake
intoaccounthowlargetheenvironmentis,includingthenumberofapplications,datasources,resources,
andmetrics,thephysicalenvironmentdistribution(thenumberofdatacenters),andthenumberofusers.
Environmentcomplexity—whatspecificarchitecturalandservicelevelrequirementsmustbemet,
includingsecurity,availability,andaccessibility.
Architecture
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise’sarchitectureallowsfordeploymentflexibility.vCenterOperations
ManagerEnterpriseisaJavabasedapplicationwithfourinterdependentcomponents:
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver—Hoststheuserinterfaceandcoordinatesthefunctions
ofthesoftware,includingcontrollingcommunicationsbetweentheothercomponents.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseanalytics—Receivesmetricsgatheredfrom monitoredresources,
analyzesthedata,andcreatesstatisticalmodelstodetectabnormalbehavior.Thisincludesthedynamic
thresholdsprocessor,whichcanbeinstalledseparatelytodistributetheprocessingload,asdescribedin
“InstallingtheAnalyticsProcessoronpage 33.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecollector—ActsasthegatewaybetweenvCenterOperations
ManagerEnterpriseandtheadaptersusedtocollectdatafromthecollectionlandscape.Itisinstalledby
defaultaspartoftheprimaryserverbutcanalsobedistributedasastandalonecomponent.Youcan
installoneormore
remotecollectorstonavigatefirewalls,sharebandwidthacrossdatacenters,and
reducetheloadonthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.Youcaninstallthecollectorona
sharedserver.
Before Installing vCenter Operations
Manager Enterprise
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