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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"Provision Windows Machines" on page 203
Provisioning physical or virtual machines with a Windows operating system installs the selected
operating system and the VCM Agent on one or more of your Windows machines.
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"Provision UNIX/Linux Machines" on page 205
Provisioning physical or virtual machines with a UNIX or Linux operating system installs the selected
operating system and the VCM Agent on one or more of your UNIX/Linux machines.
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"Provision ESX Machines" on page 211
Provisioning physical or virtual machines with an ESX operating system installs the selected operating
system on one or more of your ESX machines.
Provision Windows Machines
Provisioning physical or virtual machines with a Windows operating system installs the selected operating
system and the VCM Agent on one or more of your Windows machines.
You can install one OS distribution on one or more target machines. To install a different OS distribution,
configure a new OS provisioning action.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the operating system you are installing is compatible with the hardware or configuration of
the target physical or virtual machines. For example, the operating system must support the drivers
required by the hardware.
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Verify that the OS distributions are collected and appear in the OS Distributions data grid. See "Collect
OS Distributions" on page 201.
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Verify that the target machines are discovered and appear in the Provisionable Machines data grid. See
"Discover Provisionable Machines" on page 202.
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(Optional) Identify or create any post-install scripts that you want to run on the target machine after it
is provisioned with the new operating system. The post-install scripts are copied to the target machine
along with the OS distribution and runs after the operating system is installed.
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Machines Manager > OS Provisioning > Provisionable Machines.
3. Select one or more target machines in the data grid on which you are installing the same OS
distribution.
4. Click Provision.
5. On the Select Machines page, add or remove target machines from the selected machine list and click
Next.
Getting Started with Operating System Provisioning
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