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
Procedure
1. Download and install the appropriate version of PowerShell 2.0 included in the Windows Management
Framework.
2. Reboot the vCenter Server machine.
Download and Install VMware vSphere PowerCLI
Before you can collect from vCenter Servers, you must install VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 on those
machines.
Prerequisites
Locate the VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 download page at
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/index.html. You must be registered on
the VMWare Web site.
Procedure
1. Download and install VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1.
Collect vCenter Server Data
When you collect vCenter Server data, the collection is based on default collection filters for vCenter Host
Profiles, vCenter Host Status, and vCenter Inventory.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you completed all the pre-collection prerequisites. See "vCenter Server Collection
Prerequisites" on page 135.
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Collect the Machines data type from the Windows machines on which vCenter Server is installed. This
action identifies the machines as a vCenter Servers. See "Performing an Initial Collection" on page 83.
Procedure
1. Click Collect.
2. On the Collection Type page, select Machine Data and click Next.
3. On the Machines page, select one or more vCenter Server machines and click Next.
4. On the Data Types page, expand Windows, select the vCenter data type, and click Next.
5. On the Important page, review and resolve any conflicts and click Finish.
What to do next
After you collect vCenter data, the vCenter servers and any VCM-managed Host machines are
automatically added to the Virtual Environments machine groups. Using the machine group, you can
schedule regular collection jobs to collect vCenter data. See "Reviewing Collected vCenter Server Data" on
page 137.
Reviewing Collected vCenter Server Data
You review collected vCenter Server data in the Console in the Virtual Environments node. The collected
vCenter Server data helps you identify and manage VM Host machines.
Option Description
Console To view the collected vCenter data, select
Console > Virtual Environments >
vCenter > Host Profiles
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