5.1
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- Table of Contents
- 1. About Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- 2. Quick Start Guide
- 3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.1
- vFabric Suite Editions and Components
- vFabric Administration Server for Easier Component Management
- Simplified VM-Based Licensing Model
- vFabric Suite Product Integration and vSphere Integration
- Engineered for Spring-Built Applications
- 4. vFabric Licensing
- 5. Installing vFabric Suite
- Install vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
- Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
- RHEL: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component From the VMware RPM Repository
- Windows/Linux: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component from Download Page
- Upgrade vFabric License Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
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If your guest operating system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), VMware recommends that you use yum to install vFabric
components from the VMware RPM repository.
This section describes a typical example of installing vFabric tc Server on a VM with an RHEL guest operating
system. The procedure shows typical steps but does not go into detail about the installation. For complete
installation instructions, see the vFabric tc Server documentation.
Prerequisites
• Install vFabric License Server on your vCenter Server.
• Activate vFabric Suite licenses in your vCenter Server.
• Create a virtual machine and install the RHEL guest operating system.
See vSphere Virtual Machine Administration.
• Install VMware tools on the guest VM. VMware recommends that you install the VMware tools in the default location on the
guest VM to ensure that vFabric licensing for the installed component works correctly.
See Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools.
• Install the vFabric Repository RPMs.
Installing the vFabric repository RPMs makes it easy for you to browse the vFabric RPMs available in the VMware
repositories. There are two vFabric repositories, both located on repo.vmware.com:
• vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1: Contains the vFabric component RPMs that are certified for vFabric 5.1.
• vfabric-all-repo: Contains additional vFabric component RPMs that have released after vFabric Suite 5.1 released,
such as maintenance releases of components. These RPMs may not necessarily be certified to work with those of vFabric
5.1. Additionally, the RPMs in vfabric-all-repo might be used by customers who have not bought a vFabric 5.1
Suite Standard or Advanced license.
In addition, each of the preceding repositories has separate URLs for RHEL 5 and RHEL 6.
If you are using only RPMs certified for vFabric 5.1 Suite Advanced or Standard, then you install only vfabric-5.1-
repo-5.1. If, however, you are upgrading a vFabric component to a version that has not yet been officially certified for
vFabric 5.1, then install both repositories.
1. On the RHEL VM, start a terminal either as the root user or as an unprivileged user using sudo.
2. Install the vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1, and optionally vfabric-all-repo, RPMs using the rpm command. The
URLs of the RPMs differ depending on the version of RHEL you are using.
For RHEL 5:
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric/5.1/vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1-1.noarch.rpm
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric-all/vfabric-all-repo-1-1.noarch.rpm
For RHEL 6:
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric/5.1/vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1-1.noarch.rpm
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric-all/vfabric-all-repo-1-1.noarch.rpm
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
You do this step only once. You install the vFabric repository RPMs on each RHEL VM on which you want to install one
or more vFabric components.