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
Migration Process
You can migrate these environments to support VCM 5.4:
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"Migrate a 32-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4" on page 50
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"Migrate a 64-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4" on page 51
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"Migrate a split installation of VCM 5.3 or earlier to a single-server installation" on page 52
To install VCM,you must obtain the installation package from the VMware download site or use the VCM
5.4 CD.
Prerequisites
For a list of prerequisites to install a new Collector, see the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide.
Foundation Checker Must Run Successfully
As part of the migration process, Installation Manager runs Foundation Checker when you install VCM
5.4. Foundation Checker must complete successfully to ensure your machine is ready for the VCM 5.4
migration.
To run Foundation Checker as a standalone utility, see the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide.
If errors occur when you run Foundation Checker, you must resolve the errors using the Foundation
Checker online Help and the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide.
Use the SQLMigration Helper Tool
When you migrate from one of the supported scenarios to VCM 5.4, to simplify the steps to recreate
scheduled jobs and membership logins, use the SQL Migration Helper Tool, which you download from the
VMware Web site.
Migrate Only Your Database
You can migrate the VCM database from version 4.11.1 or later. To migrate the database, you must:
1. Move the database to a prepared machine that has 64-bit SQL Server 2008 R2.
2. Attach the database to SQL Server 2008 R2.
3. Ensure that sa or the VCM service account is the owner of the newly attached database.
4. Install VCM 5.4.
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