User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VCM Installation and Getting Started Guide
- Updated Information
- About This Book
- Preparing for Installation
- Installing VCM
- Using Installation Manager
- Installing and Configuring the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Installing the Operating System Provisioning Server
- Preparing Boot Images for Windows Provisioning
- Copy the VCM Certificate to the OS Provisioning Server for Linux Provisioning
- Importing Distributions into the OS Provisioning Server Repository
- Configuring the OS Provisioning Server Integration with the VCM Collector
- Maintaining Operating System Provisioning Servers
- Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Configuration Manager
- Upgrade and Migration Scenarios
- Prerequisites
- Back up Your Databases
- Back up Your Files
- Back up Your Certificates
- Software Supported by the VCM Collector
- Migration Process
- Prerequisites
- Foundation Checker Must Run Successfully
- Use the SQL Migration Helper Tool
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace your existing 32-Bit Environment with the Supported 64-bit Environment
- How to Recover Your Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Migrate a 32-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4
- Migrate a 64-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4
- Migrate a split installation of VCM 5.3 or earlier to a single-server install...
- After You Migrate VCM
- Upgrade Process
- Upgrading Existing Windows Agents
- Upgrading Existing Remote Clients
- Upgrading Existing UNIX Agents
- Upgrading VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Components and Tools
- Getting Started with VCM
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Verifying Available Domains
- Checking the Network Authority
- Assigning Network Authority Accounts
- Discovering Windows Machines
- Licensing Windows Machines
- Installing the VCM Windows Agent on your Windows Machines
- Performing an Initial Collection
- Exploring Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started Collecting Windows Custom Information
- Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines
- Discover, License, 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
- Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
- Getting Started with VCM Service Desk Integration
- Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
- Accessing Additional Compliance Content
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Troubleshooting Problems with VCM
- Index
Figure 1. Virtual Environments Configuration Diagram
ESX/ESXi Server Collections
When collecting from ESX and ESXi servers, you must configure at least one VCM Agent Proxy machine.
You can configure the Collector as the Agent Proxy or configure standalone Agent Proxy machines. The
Collector communicates with the Agent Proxy and the Agent Proxy then directly communicates with the
ESX and ESXi servers using SSH and/or Web Services for necessary data collection actions. The data is
processed by the Agent Proxy and relayed to the Collector.
The Agent Proxy machine must be a Windows server that meets the minimum hardware and software
requirements specified in the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide. A single Agent Proxy
machine supports up to 50 ESX or ESXi servers.
VCM Support of ESXi
VCM supports collecting VMî ąguest operating system and VM host data from ESXi machines. ESXi does
not support SSH communication. Therefore, you cannot run UNIX remote commands or collect UNIX and
Linux data types data on ESXi machines. Only Web service settings are required for ESXi machines. The
License VM Host wizard for the ESXi machines includes SSH settings, but you should not configure them.
IMPORTANT When you collect data from ESXi servers, attempting to collect data other than VM hosts or
VM guest operating data from the ESXi servers results in a collection failure. This restriction includes
collection filters for ESX3.x and vSphere4 that are supplied with VCM. Running such collections on all the
All VM Hosts Machine fails on the ESXi machines.
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