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
Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Con-
figuration Manager
4
Upgrading or Migrating vCenter
Configuration Manager
When you migrate vCenter Configuration Manager (VCM), you must consider all aspects of your
environment. Before you install VCM 5.4 and the related components and tools in your enterprise, you
must make sure the Collector machine meets the requirements for the new version.
Upgrade and Migration Scenarios
A migration to VCM 5.4 means you will install a new 64-bit environment, including the operating system,
SQL Server, and SQL Server Reporting Services, and possibly new hardware. Then you will migrate your
existing VCM, SCM, or ECM installation to this new environment. An upgrade uses an existing Collector
installation and upgrades the operating system, SQL Server, and VCM to the versions associated with the
VCM 5.4 release.
Supported migration paths include:
n
Migrate from a 32-bit or 64-bit environment running VCM, SCM, or ECMto VCM 5.4
n
Migrate a split installation to a single-server installation of VCM 5.4
The only supported upgrade path is:
n
Upgrade from a 64-bit single-server installation environment running VCM, SCM, or ECMto VCM 5.4
Supported versions for migration include:
n
VMware VCM 5.3 or later
n
EMCIonix SCM 5.0 or later
n
Configuresoft ECM 4.11.1 or later
VMware, Inc. 45