5.0

vSphere Management Assistant Guide
12 VMware, Inc.
 “UpdatevMA”onpage 24
 “ConfigureAutomaticvMAUpdates”onpage 25
Hardware Requirements
TosetupvMA,youmusthaveanESXihost.BecausevMArunsa64‐bitLinuxguestoperatingsystem,the
ESXihostonwhichitrunsmustsupport64‐bitvirtualmachines.
TheESXihostmusthaveoneofthefollowingCPUs:
 AMDOpteron,revEorlater
 IntelprocessorswithEM64TsupportwithVTenabled.
Opteron64‐bitprocessorsearlierthanrevE,andIntelprocessorsthathaveEM64Tsupportbutdonothave
VTsupportenabled,donotsupporta64‐bitguestoperatingsystem.Fordetailedhardwarerequirements,see
theHardwareCompatibilityListontheVMware
Website.
Bydefault,vMAusesonevirtualprocessor,andrequires3GBofstoragespaceforthevMAvirtualdisk.The
recommendedmemoryforvMAis600MB.
Software Requirements
YoucandeployvMAonthefollowingsystems:
 vSphere5.0
 vSphere4.1orlater
 vSphere4.0Update2orlater
 vCenterApplication5.0
YoucandeployvMAbyusingavSphereClientconnectedtoanESXihostorbyusingavSphereClient
connectedtovCenterServer5.0,vCenterServer4.1orlater,vCenterServer4.0Update2orlater,orvCenter
Application5.0.
YoucanusevMAtotargetESX/ESXi
3.5Update5,ESX/ESXi4.0Update2orlater,ESX/ESXi4.1orlater,ESXi
5.0,vCenterServer4.0Update2orlater,vCenterServer4.1orlater,andvCenterServer5.0systems.
Atruntime,thenumberoftargetsasinglevMAinstancecansupportdependsonhowitisused.
Required Authentication Information
BeforeyoubeginvMAconfiguration,obtainthefollowingusernameandpasswordinformation:
 vCenterServersystem–IfyouwanttouseavCenterServersystemasthetargetserver,youmustbeable
toconnecttothatsystem.
IfyouareusingavCenterServertarget,youdonotneedpasswordsfortheESXihoststhatthevCenter
Serversystemmanages,unlessyou
runcommandsthatdonotsupportvCenterServertargets.
 ESXihost–Youmusthavetherootpasswordortheusernameandpasswordforauserwith
administrativeprivilegesforeachESXihostyouaddasavMAtarget.Youdonotneedtheauthentication
informationwhenyouremoveatargethost.
 vMA–WhenyoufirstconfigurevMA,vMApromptsforapasswordforthevi‐adminuser.Specifya
passwordandrememberitforsubsequentlogins.Thevi‐adminuserhasrootprivilegesonvMA.
I
MPORTANTTherootuseraccountisdisabledonvMA.Torunprivilegedcommands,typesudo
<command>.Bydefault,onlyvi‐admincanruncommandsthatrequiresudo.