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
4. Run the /opt/FastScale/etc/init.d/FSdhcpd stop command.
5. On the corporate DHCP server, update dhcpd.conf to add these options:
allow bootp;
allow booting;
next-server <IP address of the OS Provisioning Server>;
Configure TFTP
The OS Provisioning Server provides TFTP services that run on the provisioning network. You must
configure the TFTP server to listen on the private OS provisioning network interface.
Procedure
1. On the OS Provisioning Server, log in as root.
2. Run ospctrl --showconfig.
The following results verify that the TFTP and Apache services are running.
TFTP - Configured on * - Running
Apache - Configured on * - Running
3. Run ospctrl --configure --privateip <IP Address>.
The configuration process runs. The IP address is 10.11.12.1.
Shutting down FStftpd: [ OK ]
Starting FStftpd: [ OK ]
TFTP - Configured on 10.11.12.1 - Running
Shutting down FSadmin: [ OK ]
Starting FSadmin: [ OK ]
Apache - Configured on 10.11.12.1 - Running
4. Run ospctrl --showconfig.
The following text appears when the TFTP and Apache services are running.
TFTP - Configured on 10.11.12.1 - Running
Apache - Configured on 10.11.12.1 - Running
What to do next
To install Windows distributions on target machines, you must create a Windows boot image and copy it
to the OS Provisioning Server. See "Create a Windows Boot Image" on page 26.
Create a Windows Boot Image
Create a Windows boot image and copy it to the OS Provisioning Server. You create the image on a
Windows 2008 or Windows 7 machine, and copy the files to the OS Provisioning Server.
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