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
Installing and Configuring the OS Pro-
visioning Server and Components
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Installing and Configuring the OS
Provisioning Server and Components
The Operating System (OS) Provisioning server installs OS distributions on target machines. The OS
Provisioning server is installed and configured on a Red Hat server, and then operating systems are
imported into the OS Provisioning Server repository. After the distributions are imported, the server
manages the installation process.
When the OS Provisioning server is installed, configured, and OS distributions have been imported, you
then use VCM to provision target machines with an operating system. See "About OS Provisioning" on
page 177 for more information.
Installing the Operating System Provisioning Server
VCM OS provisioning supports one instance of VCM with one instance of the Operating System (OS)
Provisioning Server.
You must first configure the server to meet the prerequisites specified in the VCM Hardware and Software
Requirements Guide, install the OS Provisioning Server application, and then perform post-install
configurations.
Best Practices
Configure your OS Provisioning Server in a private or restricted network. When provisioning machines,
connect the machines to the private network. This practice maintains security during the provisioning
process.
For additional security information, see VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Security Environment
Requirements White Paper.
Install the OS Provisioning Server
The OS Provisioning Server manages the installation of operating system distributions on target machines.
You install the OS Provisioning Server using supplied media or media images. The installation must be run
as the root user for the installation to complete correctly.
Prerequisites
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Ensure the machine meets all the prerequisites to installation specified in the VCM Hardware and
Software Requirements Guide.
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Disable SELinux to allow the loading of shared libraries.
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