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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

Preparing our VCM deployment - installing other prerequisites


There are a few other prerequisites that we need to install before we can actually start installing VCM. We will install them in this recipe.

Getting ready

We need Internet access to download the following installers if they are not already available. We need to install them on all the servers in the VCM hierarchy.

We need to install them in the same sequence, or else they won't get installed.

The following links are used in this book; they might change if you change the SQL version, such as those of SQL Native Client and SQL Command Line Utilities:

How to do it...

This is a very simple installation and you just need to click on Next and Finish.

Just follow the sequence and install all the three utilities. You must install them on all the servers, that is, if you are deploying a three-tier VCM installation, these three must be installed on all the three servers.

How it works...

These utilities are used by VCM to communicate with the SQL database. If they are not present on the server, then the foundation checker will fail and you will have to install them and start the installer again.