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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
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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
ManagerEnterpriseisaJava‐basedapplicationwithfourinterdependentcomponents:
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver—Hoststheuserinterfaceandcoordinatesthefunctions
ofthesoftware,includingcontrollingcommunicationsbetweentheothercomponents.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseanalytics—Receivesmetricsgatheredfrom monitoredresources,
analyzesthedata,andcreatesstatisticalmodelstodetectabnormalbehavior.Thisincludesthedynamic
thresholdsprocessor,whichcanbeinstalledseparatelytodistributetheprocessingload,asdescribedin
“InstallingtheAnalyticsProcessor”onpage 33.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecollector—ActsasthegatewaybetweenvCenterOperations
ManagerEnterpriseandtheadaptersusedtocollectdatafromthecollectionlandscape.Itisinstalledby
defaultaspartoftheprimaryserverbutcanalsobedistributedasastand‐alonecomponent.Youcan
installoneormore
remotecollectorstonavigatefirewalls,sharebandwidthacrossdatacenters,and
reducetheloadonthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.Youcaninstallthecollectorona
sharedserver.
Before Installing vCenter Operations
Manager Enterprise
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