Installation guide

Configure Resources to Install VCM on

a Virtual Machine

Configure Resources to Install VCM on a

Virtual Machine

To install VCM on a virtual machine, you must prepare the virtual machine to be used as a VCM Collector.

Because VCM can place heavy workloads on the database, you must understand your environment

workloads to determine the resource requirements.

For the VCM Collector to operate properly on a virtual machine, the virtual machine must satisfy several

prerequisites to run SQL Server on a VMware virtual machine.You should provision the VCM virtual

machine similar to a high throughput OLTP database application.

Use these guidelines to install VCM in development, test, or IT environments. For large scale

environments, you might need to alter the requirements.

IMPORTANT Do not install VCM on a virtual machine on an ESX server that has over-allocated resources.

Prerequisites

n Follow the requirements for physical hardware.See the VCM Installation Guide.

n Perform the system prerequisite tasks. See the VCM Installation Guide.

n Follow the best practices to install SQLServer. See the Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Best Practices

Guide available on the VMware Web site at http://www.vmware.com.

Procedure

1. "Configure the Disk to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine" on the next page

Configure the disk for the virtual machine. For large scale environments, you might need to alter the

requirements.

2. "Configure the CPU to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine" on the next page

Configure the CPU for the virtual machine. For large scale environments, you might need to alter the

requirements.

3. "Configure the Memory to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine" on page31

Allocate the memory for the virtual machine. For large scale environments, you might need to alter

the requirements.

What to do next

Familiarize yourself with the certificate names in advance so that you can select them during installation.

See the VCM Installation Guide.

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