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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

Introduction


Once VCM has been installed, we need to configure it to make it work for our environment; the default configurations need to be changed for environment-specific changes. To manage our infrastructure, we need to install agents on the Windows and Linux servers. This can be achieved in many ways, such as installing via scripts or, if we are using automation to deploy the machines, we could use that itself or push it to the servers identified by VCM.

We need to add vCenter, vCloud, and vShield server instances to VCM so that we can start utilizing the details available in those systems, such as machines and vApps deployed, which can be used to create various reports. Also, the captured details include the virtual machines deployed in the infrastructure, which can be used by VCM to deploy agents and bring them under management.

We need to create various machine groups; a machine group is basically a collection of machines that can be grouped into a single entity for various purposes...