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VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By : Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar
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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

Acknowledgments

First of all, I would like to thank God for giving me wisdom and making sure that I share it with you in the form of this book.

Then, thanks to my parents and my brother and sister, who believed in me no matter what I did. Next, is my friend and mentor Pramod Pawar, who guided me to become a lead consultant and now an author.

Special thanks to the PacktPub team, Riddhi, Divya, Gaurav, and the background editorial team, for believing in my idea and giving me this opportunity.

My reviewer Daniel Langenhan for finding my errors and making sure that we deliver you a better book.

Thanks to all my friends and well-wishers who supported and encouraged me to finish this book.

Now comes the most important one to be thanked, my wife Pooja, for bearing with me and my long nights in front of the laptop to finish this book. For supporting me in all the things I do. Thanks to Aashka, my lovely  daughter, for whom I wrote the whole book. I wrote this book because whenever I used to read any book, I used to start with this page, and I always wished my daughter's name to be here someday. Thanks for coming into my life and making sure that I write this; you are my true inspiration.