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
Procedure
1. On the OS Provisioning Server, log in as vcmuser.
2. Mount the ISO by attaching to the media image or mounting the image.
For all UNIX, Linux, or ESX operating systems, use loopback. For example, $ sudo mount -o loop
<iso_file.iso> /<mount point>.
3. Run the sudo basicimport -i <distribution name>.iso -l <OS Provisioning Server
private IP address or provisioning network IP address> command.
For example, sudo basicimport -i ESX-4.0.0-update01-208167.iso -l 10.11.12.1.
For subsequent imports, you can run the command without the -l option.
4. Type the Family Name.
For example, ESX or Linux. You must provide a unique family name to import different operating
systems in the same family. No other family can exist with the same combination of name, version,
and architecture values.
5. Type the Family Version.
For example, 4.0ul.
6. Type the Family Architecture.
For example, either i386 or x86_64.
7. Type the Provenance.
For example, CD, hotfix, or SP.
If you importing a standard ISO, The distribution is imported.. If the ISO is customized, you must
provide additional information about the distribution that is used when installing the operating
system.
8. In the OS platform list, select the number corresponding to your distribution platform, either 2.
Linux or 3. VMware Hypervisor Platform.
9. In the OS distributions list, select the number that most closely corresponds to the operating system
you are importing.
Linux VMware Hypervisor Platform
1. RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 1. ESXi 5.0
2. RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.6 2. ESXi 4.1 Update1
3. RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 3. ESXi 4.1
4. RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4 4. ESX 4.1 Update1
5. RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2 5. ESX 4.1
6. RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.0 6. ESX 4.0 Update2
7. Suse Linux Enterprise 11.1 7. ESX 4.0 Update1
8. Suse Linux Enterprise 10.3
If you select the incorrect distribution, you can import the distributions, but you cannot install it.
The distribution is imported.
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