5.2
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 5.2
- 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
- VMware Support for Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, and RabbitMQ
- 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
- RHEL: Optionally Configure VM to Track Open-Source Software Component Usage
- Upgrade vFabric License Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
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include Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, and RabbitMQ. See RHEL: Optionally Configure VM to Track Open-Source
Software Component Usage.
RHEL: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component From the VMware
RPM Repository
After you install the vFabric License Server in your vCenter environment, you install one or more vFabric components on one or
more virtual machines (VM). The vFabric License Server automatically keeps track of the number of VMs on which you install
the components.
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 (VM) and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the 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 Configuring VMware Tools.
• Install the vFabric repository RPM, which makes it easier for you to browse the vFabric RPMs. The vFabric repository
contains all RPMs that are certified with this release of vFabric Suite. You install the vFabric repository RPM on each RHEL
computer on which you want to install one or more vFabric components, such as vFabric tc Server.
1. On the RHEL VM, start a terminal either as the root user or as an unprivileged user using sudo.
2. Install the vFabric repository RPM using the following wget command, passing it the appropriate URL. The URL differs
depending on the version of RHEL you are using.
Important: You must run the entire wget command on a single line. Be sure you include the | sh at the end, or the
RPM installation will not work.
For RHEL 5:
prompt# wget -q -O - http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric/5.2/vfabric-5.2-suite-installer | sh
For RHEL 6:
prompt# wget -q -O - http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric/5.2/vfabric-5.2-suite-installer | sh
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
The command performs the following tasks:
• Imports the vFabric GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) key.
• Installs the vFabric 5.2 repository RPM.