5.3
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 5.3
- vFabric Suite Editions and Components
- Component Integration and Cross-Platform Consistency
- Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications
- Product Overviews
- vFabric tc Server 2.9 (Spring Edition)
- vFabric EM4J 1.3
- Spring Insight Operations 1.9
- vFabric Hyperic 5.0
- vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application Cache Node)
- vFabric RabbitMQ 3.0
- vFabric Web Server 5.3
- vFabric SQLFire 1.1 (Professional)
- vFabric Application Director 5.0 (Provisioning)
- vFabric Postgres 9.2 (Standard Edition)
- 4. vFabric Suite Licensing
- 5. Installing vFabric License Server and Activating Your License
- Installing vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
- RHEL Only: Installing vFabric License Server Standalone
- Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
- Optionally Configure Computer to Track License Usage of OSS Components on RHEL
- Upgrade vFabric License Server on vCenter Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- Uninstall Standalone vFabric License Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
- 7. FAQ: vFabric Suite Integration and Off-Cycle Releases
Quick Start Guide 5
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e. Follow the prompts until you get to the Confirm Changes window, verify changes, and click Finish.
The license keys are displayed in the main vCenter Licensing window under the name VMware vFabric Suite
Standard|Advanced, depending on the vFabric Suite package you purchased.
6. Install the VMware repository RPM on the RHEL VM.
a. Log in to the RHEL VM as the root user (or user with sudo privileges) and start a terminal.
b. Run 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/5.3/vfabric-5.3-suite-installer | sh
For RHEL 6:
prompt# wget -q -O - http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric/5.3/vfabric-5.3-suite-installer | sh
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
7. Install vFabric tc Server on the RHEL VM.
a. Log in to the VM as the root user (or user with sudo privileges) and start a terminal.
b. Execute the following yum install command to install vFabric tc Server:
prompt# yum install vfabric-tc-server-standard
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
The yum command displays information about the contents of the installation.
c. Enter y at the prompt to begin the installation.
If the installation is successful, you will see a Complete! message at the end.
The yum command installed tc Server in the /opt/vmware/vfabric-tc-server-standard directory.
What to do next
• Install additional vFabric components on the RHEL VM, such as vFabric Hyperic or vFabric RabbitMQ. See Installing vFabric
Suite.
• If your vFabric license includes open-source software (OSS) support and you have OSS components (such as Tomcat Apache)
running on the VM, configure the VM to track their usage.
• Monitor the vFabric Suite license usage by querying the vFabric License Server. See Monitoring vFabric License Usage.