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
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You reboot the target machines.
As each target machine requests an IP address from the DHCP server and requests a PXE boot, OS
Provisioning Server checks the machine's MAC address to determine if the machine has an installation
session waiting on the OS Provisioning Server. If an installation session for the machine is found, the OS
installer boots over TFTP, the OS distribution and VCMAgent are downloaded to the target machines
using HTTP, and the distribution and Agent are installed on the target machines.
When the installation completes, the new physical or virtual machines are displayed in the Provisioned
Machines data grid. They are licensed or available to license in VCM. If the machine is not licensed, you
must license it to manage the machine. As each machine is licensed, you manage it in VCM as a
Window, UNIX/Linux, or ESX machine.
Provision Target Machines with Operating System Distributions
Operating system provisioning includes VCM and the OS Provisioning Server. VCM submits the actions to
the OS Provisioning Server, which runs the actions on the target machines.
Prerequisites
Install the OS Provisioning Server and import the OS distributions. See "Installing, Configuring, and
Upgrading the OS Provisioning Server and Components" on page 21.
Procedure
1. "Collect OS Distributions" on page 201
Collect the OS Distributions to ensure that you have access to all the operating systems in the OS
Provisioning Server repository.
2. "Discover Provisionable Machines" on page 202
The OS Provisioning Server identifies provisionable physical or virtual machines in your environment
when the target machines set to network boot and attempt to PXE boot.
3. "Provision Machines with Operating System Distributions" on page 202
The OS provisioning process installs one Windows, UNIX/Linux, or ESX operating system distribution
on one or more physical or virtual machines using OS provisioning.
Continuous provisioned machine management is based on the latest data you collect from the OS
Provisioning Server. See "Provisioned Machines Results" on page 213.
Collect OS Distributions
Collect the OS Distributions to ensure that you have access to all the operating systems in the OS
Provisioning Server repository. These OS Distributions are operating system images that are available to
install on target machines.
Prerequisites
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Ensure that operating system distributions are imported into the OS Provisioning Server repository. To
import OS distributions, see "Import Distributions into the OS Provisioning Server Repository" on page
33.
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Verify that the OS Provisioning Integration Enabled setting is configured with a value greater than 0.
The default value is 5. Click Administration and select Settings > OS Provisioning Settings > OS
Provisioning Server.
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