User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration ManagerInstallation and Getting Started Guide
- About This Book
- Preparing for Installation
- Installation Manager
- Installation Configurations
- Tools Installation
- General Prerequisites to Install VCM
- Verify Hardware and Software Requirements
- Verify Administration Rights
- Set the Default Network Authority Account
- Specify the Collector Services Account
- Change the Collector Services Account Password in the Services Management Con...
- Change the Collector Services Account Password in the Component Services DCOM...
- Verify the VMware Application Services Account
- Determine the VCM Remote Virtual Directory
- Use Secure Communications Certificates
- Understand Server Authentication
- Verify the Foundation Checker System Checks
- Install UNIX Patch for HP-UX 11.11
- VCM Uses FIPS Cryptography
- Installing VCM
- Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Upgrading or Migrating VCM
- Upgrades
- Migrations
- Prerequisites to Migrate VCM
- Back Up Your Databases
- Back up Your Files
- Export and Back up Your Certificates
- Migrating VCM
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace Your Existing 32-Bit Environment with a Supported 64-bit Environment
- Migrate a 32-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.4.1
- Migrate a 64-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.4.1
- Migrate a Split Installation of VCM 5.3 or Earlier to a Single-Server Install...
- How to Recover Your Collector Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Upgrading VCM and Components
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Getting Started with VCM Components and Tools
- Getting Started with VCM
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Verify Available Domains
- Check the Network Authority
- Assign Network Authority Accounts
- Discover Windows Machines
- License Windows Machines
- Disable User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation
- Install the VCM Windows Agent on Your Windows Machines
- Enable UAC After VCM Agent Installation
- Collect Windows Data
- Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started with Windows Custom Information
- Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines
- Discover, Configure, and Collect Oracle Data from UNIX Machines
- Customize VCM for your Environment
- How to Set Up and Use VCM Auditing
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Getting Started with VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Remote
- Getting Started with VCM Patching
- Getting Started with Operating System Provisioning
- Getting Started with Software Provisioning
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Software Repository for Windows
- Package Manager for Windows
- Software Provisioning Component Relationships
- Install the Software Provisioning Components
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Using VCM Software Provisioning for Windows
- Related Software Provisioning Actions
- Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
- Getting Started with VCM Service Desk Integration
- Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Index
Preparing for Installation
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Preparing for Installation
You must prepare your environment before you install VCM components and tools.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your environment meets the security requirements. See the VCM Security Environment
Requirements White Paper on the Download VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Web site.
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Verify that your hardware and software configuration meets the requirements to install VCM. See the
VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide.
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Verify that your hardware and software meet the requirements to install VCM and install and run the
standalone VCM Foundation Checker. See "Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools" on page
261.
To prepare your environment, familiarize yourself with the following topics.
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Installation Manager: Installs and activates VCM components and tools.
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Installation Configurations: Describes supported installation configurations.
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Tools Installation: Lists the installed VCM tools.
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General Prerequisites to install VCM: Describes prerequisites that you must perform before you install
VCM.
Installation Manager
The VCM Installation Manager installs new versions of VCM components and tools and upgrades existing
versions. Installation Manager performs several actions.
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Checks managed machines to ensure that they meet the hardware and software prerequisites for the
installation.
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Confirms the license file that you apply during the installation.
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Installs the components and tools in the appropriate order on your machines.
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Tests each installation step to verify that all components install successfully and that licensed
components activate successfully.
Installation Manager operates with minimal user input and reports on progress during the installation
process. All VCM components are installed. Only components that you purchased are licensed. You can
purchase more licenses later to activate the additional installed components.
If you are upgrading, see "Upgrading or Migrating VCM" on page 43.
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