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vSphere Management Assistant Guide

VMware, Inc. 3

Contents

AboutThisBook 5

1 IntroductiontovMA 7

vMACapabilities 7

vMAComponentOverview 8

vSphereAuthenticationMechanism 8

vMASamples 9

vMAUseCases 9

WritingorConvertingScripts 9

WritingorConvertingAgents 9

2 GettingStartedwithvMA 11

HardwareRequirements 12

SoftwareRequirements 12

RequiredAuthenticationInformation 12

DeployvMA 13

ConfigurevMAatFirstBoot 13

vMAConsoleandWebUI 14

ConfigurevMAforActiveDirectoryAuthentication 14

ConfigureUnattendedAuthenticationforActiveDirectoryTargets 15

TroubleshootingUnattendedAuthentication 16

Enablethevi‐userAccount 16

vMAUserAccountPrivileges 16

AddTargetServerstovMA 17

RunningvSphereCLIfortheTargets 19

Reconfigurea

TargetServer 19

RemoveTargetServersfromvMA 20

ModifyingScripts 20

ConfigurevMAtoUseaStaticIPAddress 21

ConfigureaStaticIPAddressfromtheConsole 21

ConfigureaStaticIPAddressfromtheWebUI 22

ConfigurevMAtoUseaDHCPServer 22

ConfigurevMAtoUseaDHCPServerfromtheConsole 22

ConfigurevMAtoUse

aDHCPServerfromtheWebUI 22

SettingtheTimeZone 22

SettingtheTimeZonefromtheConsole 23

SettingtheTimeZonefromtheWebUI 23

ShutDownvMA 23

DeletevMA 23

TroubleshootingvMA 24

UpdatevMA 24

ConfigureAutomaticvMAUpdates 25

3 vMAInterfaces 27

vMAInterfaceOverview 27

vifptargetCommandforvi‐fastpassInitialization 27