Specifications

Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition: Installation and Configuration Guide 10

Chapter 1—Installing Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition

• Target VM should be powered ON

• No snapshots

• VMware tools should be installed and running

• CD-ROM exists on VM

• GUID Partition Table (GPT) is not supported

• Routing is done between appliance and VM

• No multiple network cards on VM

• VMs with IDE disks are not supported

• VMs with iSCSI mapped volumes are not supported

• VMs with SCSI bus sharing are not supported

• MS Windows requirements:

• File and Printer Sharing should be enabled

• The Administrative Shares should be enabled

• No dynamic disks

• No partition as a Folder

• TCP 445 port should be opened

• Linux requirements

• Grub loader (grub 2 is not supported)

• No disks in volume group (LVM)

• SSH enabled

Installing as a VMware Virtual Machine

Installing the VMware virtual machine involves downloading the virtual appliance, and then

deploying it to your VMware environment using the VMware Deploy OVF Template option.

Note This procedure contains instructions for deploying the virtual appliance using the Deploy OVF

Template Wizard. For complete information about this wizard and other vSphere Client features,

see your vSphere Client documentation.

To download and deploy the Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition virtual appliance:

Download the VMware version of Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition from the

following location:

http://www.quest.com/foglight-for-virtualization-standard-edition/

Unzip the compressed (.zip) file to a Windows server or workstation. The zipped file

contains the OVF file, three VMDK files, the Hyper-V Collector directory, a Read Me file,

the end user license agreement, and the user documentation.

Open the VMware vSphere Client and click File > Deploy OVF Template.