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
Quick Start Guide 3
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2. Quick Start Guide
This section guides you through the end-to-end process of installing vFabric Suite, or more specifically, installing one vFabric
component on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machine in the context of vFabric Suite. In particular, the procedure
describes how to perform the following tasks:
• Create an ODBC data source on the Windows computer running vCenter Server that connects to either the database system
used by vCenter Server or to a separate database system. You will later specify this data source when you install vFabric
License Server. If you use the vCenter database system, VMware recommends that you create a separate database instance
for vFabric use so as to keep the data of the two products separate. This ODBC data source should be used only by vFabric
License Server.
In this Quick Start Guide, it is assumed you are using a SQL Server database system, although you can also use other database
system such as Oracle.
• Install vFabric License Server on the same computer as your vCenter Server.
• Activate a vFabric license.
• Install the VMware repository RPM on the RHEL virtual machine (VM), which makes it easy for you to browse the available
vFabric RPMs.
• Install one vFabric component (vFabric tc Server) on the RHEL VM from the VMware RPM repository.
The procedure shows you how to complete the entire installation process as quickly as possible, with minimal explanation of
what each step means. For more details, see Installing vFabric Suite.
Prerequisites
• Install and configure vCenter Server and vSphere Client on a Windows computer.
See vSphere Installation and Setup.
• Create the database instance that will contain vFabric license data. See Guidelines for Creating the vFabric License Server
Database Instance.
• 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 VM.
See Installing and Configuring VMware Tools.
• Ensure that the Windows computer on which vCenter Server is running has the SQL Server Native Client ODBC
driver installed on it; if not, download and install the driver from the Microsoft SQL Server Web site.
Procedure
1. Create an ODBC data source that connects to the vFabric database instance on either the vCenter database system,
or an external database.
a. On the Windows computer on which you are running vCenter Server, invoke the ODBC Data Source Administrator
window using Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Data Source (ODBC).
b. Click the System DSN tab.
c. Click the Add... button.
d. Select the SQL Server Native Client driver, then click Finish.