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VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By : Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar
Book Image

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By: Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) helps you to automate IT operations, manage performance, and gain visibility across physical and virtual infrastructure. It is continuously being used by enterprises to audit the configurations of the VMware infrastructure as well as the Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems. This book is filled with practical recipes through which you will learn about the latest features of vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8.X, starting with installation of various tiers of VCM followed by configuration management across physical and virtual servers. Throughout this book, you will explore how VCM can perform tasks such as patch management, compliance assessment, and software package distribution along with Machine filters for new platforms such as RHEL 7 and Windows 10. This book will ease your troubles while upgrading from the existing VCM to the latest version by providing you with step-by-step instructions about the process of migration along with upgrade and maintenance support. This book will help you understand how to integrate vRealize Configuration with other applications along with schedule management and also guide you on how to handle security issues. After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of how VCM fits in the overall picture of the data center design from a patching and compliance perspective.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Understanding VCM Console

Deploying a package


Finally, we are ready to deploy the package–in other words, we are ready to provision the software.

Getting ready

We need to complete all the previous recipes in this chapter in order to work on this recipe.

How to do it...

To provision the software on managed machines, follow these steps:

  1. Log on to VCM Server with administrative privileges and go to ConsoleWindows Operating SystemSoftware ProvisioningPackage Managers  |  Packages.

  2. Select the package you want to install and click on Install Package:

  3. Follow the wizard and add more machines on which you want to install the selected package (winrar in our case) if required, or click on Next:

  4. As we have not signed the package, accept the warning and allow the unsigned package:

  5. Schedule the action or select Run Action Now.

  6. Accept the confirmation, and you are good to go:

This will start the package installation process immediately if you selected Run Action Now or at a later time if you set a schedule.

How it works...

If...