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28 vFabric Platform
28 Installing vFabric Platform
• vfabric-all-repo: Contains additional vFabric component RPMs that have released after vFabric Platform 5 released,
such as maintenance releases of components. These RPMs may not necessarily be certified to work with those of vFabric 5
(stored in the vfabric-5-repo repository). Additionally, the RPMs in vfabric-all-repo might be used by customers
who have not bought a vFabric 5 Standard or Advanced license.
If you are using only RPMs certified for vFabric 5 Advanced or Standard, then you install only vfabric-5-repo. If,
however, you are upgrading a vFabric component to a version that has not yet been officially certified for vFabric 5, then install
both repositories.
Procedure
1. On the RHEL VM, start a terminal either as the root user or as an unprivileged user using sudo.
2. Run the rpm command to install vfabric-5-repo, and optionally vfabric-all-repo, from the VMware
repository:
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric/5/vfabric-5-repo-5-2.noarch.rpm
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric-all/vfabric-all-repo-1-1.noarch.rpm
You install the vFabric repository RPMs on each RHEL VM on which you want to install one or more vFabric components.
3. Use the yum search vfabric command to view the list of vFabric components that you can install from the VMware
repository. For example (with sample output):
prompt# yum search vfabric
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
vfabric-5 | 1.9 kB 00:00
vfabric-5/primary_db | 11 kB 00:00
======================================== Matched: vfabric =========================================
vfabric-5-repo.noarch : vFabric repository configuration
vfabric-all-repo.noarch : vFabric All Repository Configuration
vfabric-eula.noarch : vFabric End User License Agreement
vfabric-gemfire.noarch : VMware vFabric GemFire
vfabric-sqlfire.noarch : VMware vFabric SQLFire
vfabric-hyperic-agent.noarch : VMware vFabric Hyperic Agent
vfabric-hyperic-server.x86_64 : VMware vFabric Hyperic Server
vfabric-insight-agent.noarch : VMware Spring Insight Agent
vfabric-insight-dashboard.noarch : VMware Spring Insight Dashboard
vfabric-rabbitmq-server.noarch : The RabbitMQ server
vfabric-tc-server-standard.noarch : VMWare vFabric tc Server Standard
vfabric-web-server.x86_64 : VMWare vFabric Web Server
Pre-Installation Instructions
The following sections describe required pre-installation instructions for some vFabric Components:
• Pre-Installation Instructions for vFabric Hyperic Server: Create Properties File
• Pre-Installation Instructions for vFabric RabbitMQ: Install Erlang
If the component you are installing using RPMs is not listed, then there are no pre-installation requirements for it.
Pre-Installation Instructions for vFabric Hyperic Server: Create Properties File
The installation of vFabric Hyperic Server typically requires that a user enter values for a number of configuration properties.
To automate this request for input when you install from an RPM, you create a properties file that contains values for all the
properties required by the vFabric Hyperic Server installation process.
Hyperic Server stores its meta-data in a database. Hyperic provides an internal PostgreSQL database that you can use for initial
testing purposes, but VMware recommends that for production purposes you use a remote external database, such as MySQL or
Oracle. See the Hyperic documentation for instructions on setting up an external database for use with Hyperic by searching the
vFabric Hyperic X.X section of this Documentation Center.