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
Upgrading or Migrating VCM
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Upgrading or Migrating VCM
You can upgrade or migrate your existing VCM environment to VCM 5.4.1, which supports 64-bit
environments that include 64-bit hardware, 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 and SP1, and SQL Server 2008
R2 and SP1.
You can use Installation Manager to upgrade from VMware VCM 5.3, EMC Ionix SCM 5.0 or greater, or
Configuresoft ECM 4.11.1 or greater to VCM 5.4.1.
When you perform a new installation or a migration, you must have the previous license file available and
specify the path to the license file during the installation. Installation Manager uses the license file to
activate the components that you purchased. If you do not have the license file from VCM 4.11.1 or later,
contact VMware Technical Support.
You must determine whether your VCM environment requires an upgrade or a migration. The
prerequisites and steps differ depending on whether you perform an upgrade or a migration of VCM.
Upgrades
An upgrade to VCM 5.4.1 uses an existing VCM Collector installation. You upgrade the operating system,
SQL Server, and VCM to the versions associated with VCM 5.4.1.
VCM 5.4.1 supports the following upgrade paths.
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Upgrade from VCM 5.4, which is a 64-bit single-server installation. Updates to Windows Server 2008
R2 or SQL Server 2008 R2 are not required.
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Upgrade from a 64-bit single-server installation that includes VMware VCM 5.3 or later, EMC Ionix
SCM 5.0 or later, or Configuresoft ECM 4.11.1 or later. You must upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
and SQL Server 2008 R2 are required.
Migrations
A migration to VCM 5.4.1 requires you to prepare new hardware and software for your environment.
VCM 5.4.1 supports the following migration paths.
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Migrate from a 32-bit or 64-bit environment that includes VCM, SCM, or ECM.
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Migrate a split installation of VCM to a single-server installation of VCM 5.4.1.
You must update your hardware to 64-bit. Update the operating system to the 64-bit Windows Server
2008 R2 operating system, update to SQL Server 2008 R2, and update SQL Server Reporting Services. Then
you can migrate your existing VCM, SCM, or ECM installation to your new VCM 5.4.1 environment.
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