VMware vCenter vCenter Operations Manager 5.0.1 Configuration Guide

Installation and Configuration Guide

vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise 5.0

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Contents

AboutThisBook 5

1 BeforeInstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise 7

Overview 7

Architecture 7

2 SystemRequirements 9

OperatingSystemRequirements 9

HardwareRequirements 9

DatabaseServerRequirements 9

HardwareandSoftwareRequirementsforClientSystems 10

3 InstallationandConfigurationChecklist 11

InstallationChecklist 11

4 vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseDatabaseConfiguration 13

PrepareaSQLDatabasethatRequiresSuperUserAccess 13

PrepareaSQLDatabasethatRequiresRegularUserAccess 14

PrepareaSQLDatabaseWhenYouCannotRunExecutableFiles 15

PreparinganOracleDatabaseonaWindowsHost 15

5 InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise 17

InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonWindows 17

InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonLinux–GUIMode 20

InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonLinux–ConsoleMode 22

AdvancedvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseConfiguration 23

6 ManagingProgramGroups 27

7 InstallingavCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseCollector 29

InstallingavCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseCollector 29

8 InstallingavCenterOperationsManagerAdapter 31

9 InstallingtheAnalyticsProcessor 33

InstallingtheProcessor 33

ValidatingthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseInstallation 34

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TheVMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseInstallationGuidedescribeshowtoinstall,configure,and

maintainVMware

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise,anautomatedintelligencesystemforIT

operations.

Intended Audience

ThisguideisintendedforvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesystemadministrators.Forinformation

aboutusingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisetomonitortheperformanceandefficiencyofyour

network,pleaserefertothevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseUser’sGuide.

VMware Technical Publications Glossary

VMwareTechnicalPublicationsprovidesaglossaryoftermsthatmightbeunfamiliartoyou.Fordefinitions

oftermsastheyareusedinVMwaretechnicaldocumentationgotohttp://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

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VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Documentation

ThedocumentationsetforVMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseconsistsofthefollowing

documents.

 VMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseAdministrationGuide.Explainsinstallationand

administrationofvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

 VMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseUser’sGuide.Containsconceptualandprocedural

informationonusingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise.

 AnalyticsGuideforVMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise.Containsconceptualinformationthat

describestheprinciplesofthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseanalyticsfeatures.

 IntegrationGuideforvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseandEMCSmarts.Containsconceptualand

proceduralinformationonintegratingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisewithEMCSmarts.

 VMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonlinehelp.Containsconceptualandprocedural

informationtohelpyoucompleteyourtaskswhenadministeringandusingvCenterOperationsManager

Enterprise.

 VMwarevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseReleaseNotes.Containslate‐breakingnewsanddescriptions

ofknownissuesandworkarounds.

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Technical Support and Education Resources

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ThischapterintroducesthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserverinstallation.Itcontainsthe

followingsections:

 “Overview”onpage 7

 “A r c h i t e c t u r e ” onpage 7

Overview

InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseconsistsoftwoprocedures:

1 PreparingadatabaseineitherSQLServerorOracletoholdthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

data.

2 InstallingthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesoftware.

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseisdesignedasanenterprisesolution,soplanningandpreparingyour

environmentiscriticalto

successfuldeployment.Youshouldconsiderseveralfactorswhenplanningyour

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseenvironment:

 Environmentsizeandlandscape—thevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisearchitectureneedstotake

intoaccounthowlargetheenvironmentis,includingthenumberofapplications,datasources,resources,

andmetrics,thephysicalenvironmentdistribution(thenumberofdatacenters),andthenumberofusers.

 Environmentcomplexity—whatspecificarchitecturalandservicelevelrequirementsmustbemet,

includingsecurity,availability,andaccessibility.

Architecture

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise’sarchitectureallowsfordeploymentflexibility.vCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseisaJava‐basedapplicationwithfourinterdependentcomponents:

 vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver—Hoststheuserinterfaceandcoordinatesthefunctions

ofthesoftware,includingcontrollingcommunicationsbetweentheothercomponents.

 vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseanalytics—Receivesmetricsgatheredfrom monitoredresources,

analyzesthedata,andcreatesstatisticalmodelstodetectabnormalbehavior.Thisincludesthedynamic

thresholdsprocessor,whichcanbeinstalledseparatelytodistributetheprocessingload,asdescribedin

“InstallingtheAnalyticsProcessor”onpage 33.

 vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecollector—ActsasthegatewaybetweenvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseandtheadaptersusedtocollectdatafromthecollectionlandscape.Itisinstalledby

defaultaspartoftheprimaryserverbutcanalsobedistributedasastand‐alonecomponent.Youcan

installoneormore

remotecollectorstonavigatefirewalls,sharebandwidthacrossdatacenters,and

reducetheloadonthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.Youcaninstallthecollectorona

sharedserver.

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 vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisemessaging—Themessagebus(ActiveMQ)passesmetric

informationbetweenvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponents.

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseusestwodatastoragesolutions.Arelationaldatabase(Oracleor

MicrosoftSQLServer)storesconfigurationandstatedata.Aproprietaryhigh‐performancefilesystem‐based

repository(FSDB)storesthecollected

rawmetrics.Figure 1‐1depictsvCenterOperationsManager

Enterprise’slogicalarchitecture.

Figure 1-1. vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Architecture

TheinstallationscriptinstallsallvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponents—server(including

messaging),collector,andanalytics—inthesamefolderstructure.ItalsoinstallsseveralvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterprisesystemtools.

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ThischapterincludesthesystemrequirementsforvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.Itcontains

thefollowingsections:

 “OperatingSystemRequirements”onpage 9

 “HardwareRequirements”onpage 9

 “DatabaseServerRequirements”onpage 10

 “HardwareandSoftwareRequirementsforClientSystems”onpage 10

Operating System Requirements

YoumustinstallvCenterOperationsEnterpriseServeronasupportedoperatingsystem.

Hardware Requirements

YoumustinstallvCenterOperationsEnterpriseServerona64‐bitmachinethatmeetsspecifichardware

requirements.

System Requirements

Table 2-1.

Operating System Version Service Pack

WindowsServer2003 64‐bit SP2orlater

WindowsServer2008 64‐bit N/A

RedHatEnterpriseLinux564‐bit N/A

Hardware

Component One Million Metrics Two Million Metrics Six Million Metrics

CPU 4CPU 8CPU 32CPU

Memory 14GB 28GB 72GB

DiskStorage 1.5TB

FSBD:1.5TB

Database:100GB

3TB

FSDB:2.8TB

Database:200GB

8.8TB

FSDB:8.4TB

Database:400GB

DiskI/0forAnalytics

2,000IOPS 4,000IOPS 12,000IOPS

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Database Server Requirements

vCenterOperationsEnterpriserequiresanSQLorOracledatabasetostoredata.Thedatabaseservershould

bededicatedtothevCenterOperationsEnterprisedatabase.Thedatabasemustbeconfiguredandavailable

tothevCenterOperationsEnterpriseServerhost.

vCenterOperationsEnterprisesupportsthefollowingdatabaseserversandversions.

 Oracle10gRelease2

 Oracle11gRelease2

 MicrosoftSQLServer2005SP2orlater

 MicrosoftSQLServer2008

NOTEMicrosoftSQLServerissupportedonlyonWindowshosts.Thecomputerthathoststhedatabase

servermustmeetminimumhardwarerequirements.

OTEYoucannotuseIntegratedWindowsAuthenticationwhileusingtheMicrosoftSQLserver.TheJDBC

driversupportstheuseofType2integratedauthenticationonWindowsoperatingsystemsthroughthe

integratedSecurityconnectionstringproperty.Touseintegratedauthentication,copythe

sqljdbc_auth.dllfiletofolder%ALIVE_BASE%/common/bin.

 2GBRAM

 Two32‐bitCPUs,P42GHzorfaster

Forsystemsthatcollectmorethanonemillionmetrics,thedatabaseserverhostshouldhave8GBRAMand

two64‐bitCPUs.

ThepingtimebetweenthedatabaseserverhostandthevCenterOperationsEnterpriseServerhostshouldbe

lessthanonemillisecond.

Hardware and Software Requirements for Client Systems

Table 2-2. Client System Hardware and Software Requirements

Component Required

RAM Atleast2GB

Browser

 InternetExplorer7.xor8.x

 MozillaFirefox3.x

Javascriptmustbeenabled.Popupblockersmustbeeitherremovedordisabled.

PDFViewer AdobeReaderorasimilarPDFviewerforviewingreports.

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ThischaptercontainsachecklistyoucanusetotracktheprogressofvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

installationandconfiguration,includinganychangesyoumakefromthedefaultconfigurationsettings.

Changingtheconfigurationsettingsisnotcoveredinthismanual—consultyourVMwarerepresentativeto

determinethepropersettingsforyourinstallation.

Installation Checklist

Installation and Configuration

Checklist

Action Item Notes

Pre-Installation

Acquirehardwarebasedonsizingprojection

DownloadsoftwarefromVMwareFTPsite

Prepare the Database

IfusingSQLServer:

 InstallSQLServer

 CreateaWindowsorSQLauthenticationaccount

withsufficientprivilegestocreateanewdatabase

 RunvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

databaseinstaller

IfusingOracle:

 InstallOracle

 InstallandconfigureSQLPlustool

 CreateauserwithsufficientOracleprivilegesto

createatablespaceanduserschemas

 RunvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

databaseinstaller

Prepare Hardware

Confirmexternalportaccessto

vCenterOperations

ManagerEnterprise

serverandthedatabaseserver

(defaults:vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver

ifusingremotecollectors80/1100/61616:DBserver,if

external1433/1521)

ConfirmportsarereservedonvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseserver(1099,1100,1199,1201,1202,

1203,61616)

ConfirmresponsetimebetweenvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseserveranddatabaseserveris

<1ms

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Installation

InstallandconfiguretheprimaryvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseserver.

 TestvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

databaseconfiguration

 ValidateFSDBHomepath

 Beforecompletingconfigurationwizard,moveall

unusedadapters(forexample,Hyperic,ITM,SCOM,

andsoon)tothepluginsdirectory

(Optional)Installandconfigureasecondaryserverusing

thebackupoption

(Optional)Installandconfigureanyremotecollectors.

Action Item Notes

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BeforeyoucaninstallvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise,youmustcreateadatabaseineitherMicrosoft

SQLServerorOracletosorethevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisedata.Thischaptercontainsthe

followingsections:

 “PrepareaSQLDatabasethatRequiresSuperUserAccess”onpage 13

 “PrepareaSQLDatabasethatRequiresRegularUserAccess”onpage 14

 “PrepareaSQLDatabaseWhenYouCannotRunExecutableFiles”onpage 15

 “PreparinganOracleDatabaseonaWindowsHost”onpage 15

Prepare a SQL Database that Requires Super User Access

Ifyoucanrunexecutablefiles,andyourconfigurationandsecuritypoliciesallowvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterprisetouseausernamethathasdatabasecreationprivileges(asuperuser)whenit

communicateswithSQLServer,youcanpreparetheSQLdatabasebyrunningthe

vcops_SQL_Server_xxxx.exeprogram.Thisprogramisincluded

inthevCenterOperationsManager

Enterpriseinstallationpackage.

Prerequisites

 FamiliarizeyourselfwiththedatabaseserverrequirementsforvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise.

See“DatabaseServerRequirements”onpage 9.

 InstallSQLServer.

 CreateaWindowsauthenticationaccountoranSQLauthenticationaccountthathassufficientprivileges

tocreateanewdatabaseandnewSQLuser.

 ObtainthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallationpackage.

Procedure

1IfyouareusingWindowsauthenticationforSQLServer ,loginasauserwhohassufficientprivilegesto

createadatabase.

2Extractthefilesfromvcops_sqlserver.ziptoanyavailabledirectory.

vcops_sqlserver.zipislocatedinthesamefolderasthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise



executablefiles.

3Runvcops_SQLServer_xxxx.exe.

aTypetheIPaddressofthedatabaseserver,ortypeip_address\instance_nametoselectaspecific

instanceofthedatabase.

b SelectSQLServerauthentication.

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cTypethesuperusernameandpasswordthatvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisewillusewhen

itconnectstoSQLServer.Thedatabaseiscratedunderthisusername

d SelectMakeadatabase.Thedefaultconfigurationvaluesworkformostinstallations.Donotclick

AdvancedunlessaVMwaresupportrepresentativeinstructsyou

todoso.

eClickRun.

4Whentheprocesshasfished,clickOK.

5InSQLServerManagementStudio,confirmthatthenewdatabaseexists.

Prepare a SQL Database that Requires Regular User Access

Ifyoucanrunexecutablefiles,andyourconfigurationandsecuritypoliciesallowvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterprisetouseausernamethathasdatabasecreationprivileges(asuperuser)whenit

communicateswithSQLServer,youcanpreparetheSQLdatabasebyrunningthe

vcops_SQL_Server_xxxx.exeprogram.Thisprogramisincluded

inthevCenterOperationsManager

Enterpriseinstallationpackage.

Prerequisites

 FamiliarizeyourselfwiththedatabaseserverrequirementsforvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise.

See“DatabaseServerRequirements”onpage 9.

 InstallSQLServer.

 CreateaWindowsauthenticationaccountoranSQLauthenticationaccountthathassufficientprivileges

tocreateanewdatabaseandnewSQLuser.

 ObtainthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallationpackage.

Procedure

1IfyouareusingWindowsauthenticationforSQLServer ,loginasauserwhohassufficientprivilegesto

createadatabase.

2Extractthefilesfromvcops_sqlserver.ziptoanyavailabledirectory.

vcops_sqlserver.zipislocatedinthesamefolderasthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise



executablefiles.

3InSQLServer,createadatabasetoholdthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseschemaanddata.

Youcangiv e thedatabaseanyname.Keeparecordofthedatabasename.Youwillneedthenamewhen

youconfigurethedatabase.

4InSQLServerManagementStudiooranothertoolthatruns

SQLscripts,runcreateuser.sqlunderthe

databasethatyoucreated.Usethesamesuperuserprivilegesthatyouusedtocreatethedatabase.

ThescriptcreatesanSQLServeruserthathasthenamevcopsandadefaultpassword.Youcanchange

theusernameandpasswordaftertheuseris

created.

5Runvcops_SQLServer_xxxx.exe.

aTypetheIPaddressofthedatabaseserver,ortypeip_address\instance_nametoselectaspecific

instanceofthedatabase.

b SelectSQLServerauthentication.

cTypetheusernameandpasswordfortheSQLServeruserthatwascreatedwhenyouran

createuser.sql.Thedatabaseiscreatedunderthis

username

d SelectUpgradeanexistingadatabase.Thedefaultconfigurationvaluesworkformostinstallations.

DonotclickAdvancedunlessaVMwaresupportrepresentativeinstructsyoutodoso.

eTypethenameofthedatabasethatyoucreatedwhenyoucreatedtoholdthevCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseschemaand

data.

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fClickRun.

6Whentheprocesshasfished,clickOK.

7InSQLServerManagementStudio,confirmthatthenewdatabaseexists.

Prepare a SQL Database When You Cannot Run Executable Files

Ifyoucannotrunexecutablefiles,youcanprepareanSQLdatabaseforvCenterOperationsEnterpriseby

runningSQLscripts.TheSQLscriptsareincludedinthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallation

package.

Prerequisites

 FamiliarizeyourselfwiththedatabaseserverrequirementsforvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise.

See“DatabaseServerRequirements”onpage 9.

 InstallSQLServer.

 CreateaWindowsauthenticationaccountoranSQLauthenticationaccountthathassufficientprivileges

tocreateanewdatabaseandnewSQLuser.

 ObtainthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallationpackage.

Procedure

1IfyouareusingWindowsauthenticationforSQLserver,logonasauserwithenoughprivilegestocreate

adatabase.

2Extractthefilesfromvcops_sqlserver.ziptoanyavailabledirectory.

vcops_sqlserver.zipislocatedinthesamefolderasthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

executable

files.

3InSQLServer,createadatabasetoholdthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseschemaanddata.

Youcangiv e thedatabaseanyname.Keeparecordofthedatabasename.Youwillneedthenamewhen

youconfigurethedatabase.

4InSQLServerManagementStudiooranothertoolthatrunsSQL

scripts,runcreateuser.sqlunderthe

databasethatyoucreated.Usethesamesuperuserprivilegesthatyouusedtocreatethedatabase.

ThescriptcreatesanSQLServeruserthathasthenamevcopsandadefaultpassword.Youcanchange

theusernameandpasswordaftertheuseriscreated.

5 Attachto

thedatabaseyoucreatedtoholdthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseschemaanddata.

UsetheusernameandpasswordfortheSQLServeruserthatwascreatedwhenyouran

createuser.sql.

6Runthevcops_SQLServer_

xxxx

Schema.sqlscript.

7Runthevcops_SQLServer_

xxxx

Data.sqlscript.

8InSQLServerManagementStudio,verifythatthenewdatabaseexists.

Preparing an Oracle Database on a Windows Host

IftheOracledatabaseisonaWindowshost,youcanrunabatchfiletopreparethedatabasetostorevCenter

OperationsEnterprisedata.ThebatchfileisincludedinthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisee

installationpackage.

Prerequisites

Beforeyoubegintheprocessbelow,makesureyouhavedonethefollowing:



 Familiarizeyourselfwiththedatabaseserverrequirements.See“DatabaseServerRequirements”on

page 9.

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 InstallOracle.

 Installandconfigurethesqlplustool.

 CreateauserthathassufficientOracleprivilegestocreateatablespaceanduserschemas.

 Decidewhereonthedisktocreatethetablespace.

 ObtainthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallationpackage.

Procedure

1Inthetnsnames.orafile,addaconnectionnamethatthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver

canusetoconnecttotheOracleserver.

2 NavigatetothefoldercontainingthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseexecutablefiles.

3Extractallthefilesfromthevcops.oracle.zipfile

toanyavailabledirectory.

4Runsetup.bat.

Forexample,

setup.bat

connection user password

connectionistheconnectionnameasdefinedintnsnames.ora.Theuseryouspecifywithuserand

passwordmusthavepermissiontologintotheOracledatabaseasSYSDBA.

5Verifythatthetablespaceanduserschemawerecreatedproperly.

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YoucaninstallthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesoftwareonasupportedversionofeither

WindowsorLinux.ThereareseparateproceduresforWindows,LinuxusingGUImode,andLinuxusing

consolemode.Thischaptercontainsthefollowingsections:

 “InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonWindows”onpage 17

 “InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonLinux–GUIMode”onpage 20

 “InstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseonLinux–ConsoleMode”onpage 22

 “A d v a n c e d vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseConfiguration”onpage 23

Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise on Windows

To install vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise on a Windows server

1Logonasauserwithenoughprivilegestocreateservices.IfyouareusingSQLServerwithWindows

authentication,youmustalsobeabletocreateandmodifydatabases.Werecommendusingan

administratorusername.

2 NavigatetothefoldercontainingthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseexecutablefiles.

3Runthe

VMware‐vCOps‐1.0.exefile.ThefirstpageofthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

installationwizardappears.

4ClickNext.

5ReadthePatentAgreementinitsentirety.ClickNext.

6ReadtheLicenseAgreementinitsentirety.SelectIAccepttheTermsoftheLicenseAgreementandclick

Next.

7OntheChooseInstall

Setpage,clicktheiconbesideFullInstallationandclickNext.

ThisinstallsallvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponents.(IfyouattempttoinstallvCenter

OperationsManagerEnterpriseona32‐bitsystem,FullInstallationisnotanoption.Youcaninstallonly 

avCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseremotecollector

ortheseparateanalyticsprocessorona32‐bit

system.)

Installing vCenter Operations

Manager Enterprise

NOTEYoucanclickCanceltostoptheprocessatanytime.

OTETheCollectoroptioninstallsjustthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecollectoronaremote

servertoimproveperformanceandaccessibility;see“InstallingavCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

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8OntheChooseInstallFolderpage,clickOKtoacceptthedefaultinstallationfolder,orclickBrowseand

selecttheinstallationfolderyouwant.Thedefaultinstallationfolderis\vmware\vcenter-operations

beneaththedefaultprograminstallationfolderforyoursystem.Werecommendyouacceptthedefault.

ClickNext.

9ThePre‐installationSummary

pageliststhecomponentsthatwillbeinstalled.ClickInstalltobeginthe

installation.Whenthispartoftheprocessisfinished(itmaytakeseveralminutes),theConfiguration

Modepageappears.

10 OntheConfigurationModepage,selectBasicorAdvanced.Useadvancedconfigurationonlyifoneor

moreof

thefollowingistrue:

 CommunicationbetweenaremotevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseCollectorandthe

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseServerwillbeviafirewallorHTTPproxy.

 vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisewillbemonitoringmorethan100,000resources.

 ReplicationisenabledbetweentheprimaryvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserveranda

backupserver.

 Forsecurityreasons,youdonotwantthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponentstouse

defaultpasswordsandports.

IfyouchooseBasic,continuethisprocedure.IfyouchooseAdvanced,continuewith“AdvancedvCenter

OperationsManagerEnterpriseConfiguration”onpage 23.

11 OntheFullConfigurationpage,selectPrimaryorBackupunder

ServerConfiguration.

12 IntheDatabaseTypefieldselectSQLorOracle.Fieldsappropriatefortheselecteddatabaseappearon

thepage.

ForanOracledatabase,theDatabaseNameandInstanceNamefieldsdonotappearandanSIDfieldis

added.

13 IfyouareusinganOracledatabase,typeits

SystemIdentifierintheSIDfield.

14 IntheDatabaseHostfield,entertheIPaddressofthedatabaseserver.

15 IntheDatabasePortfield,leavethedefaultentry(1433forSQLServeror1521forOracle)unlessyou

installedthedatabaseusingadifferentportnumber.

16 Ifyouareusinga

SQLServerdatabase,enterthenameofthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise

databaseintheDatabaseNamefield.

17 IfyouareusingaSQLServerdatabaseandneedtospecifyanInstanceNameforthedatabase,typeitin

thatfield.

18 IntheAuthentication,UserName,andPasswordfields,select

thetypeofauthenticationtouse(forSQL

Serverdatabasesonly)andentertheusernameandpasswordforauserwithpermissiontoreadandwrite

totheSQLServerdatabaseorOracleschema.

19 ClicktheTestbuttontotesttheconnectiontothedatabase.Ifthetestfails,check

yourentries,makeany

neededcorrections,andtryagain.

OTEThroughoutthismanual,werefertothefolderwhereyouinstallvCenterOperationsManager

Enterpriseasvcenter‐ops.

NOTEIfyouconfigureabackupserver,ifthereisaproblemwithyourprimaryserveryoucanusethe

configurationwizardtomakethebackupservertheprimaryserver.Allremotecollectorswillthensend

metricstothenewprimaryserver.

OTEvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriserequiresauseraccountwithSQLauthentication

credentialstoestablishaconnectionwiththedatabase.IfyouwanttouseWindowsauthenticationwith

SQLServer,thereareadditionalstepstoperformaftercompletingtheinstallation.

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20 InvCenterOperationsServerConfiguration,chooseHTTPorHTTPS.Thissetstheprotocoltousefor

clientconnectionstothevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.

21 IfyouwantadapterswhichusetheHTTPpostmethodtouseWebauthentication,checktheHTTPPost

adapterwebauthenticationenabledbox.Ifyou

checkthisbox,onlyavCenterOperationsManager

EnterpriseuserwiththeAdministrativeAccessrightwillbeabletopostdatatovCenterOperations

ManagerEnterprise.

22 ThevCenterOperationsServerPortfielddisplaysthedefaultportnumberfortheprotocolyouchose.If

youneedtochangethis,port,typethe

correctnumber.

23 ToenableInternetconnectionstothevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver,typetheservername

orpublicIPaddressfortheserverinthevCenterOperationsServerHostfield.(Theinstallertriesto

detectthehostnameorIPaddressoftheserverandfillitinasthe

default.)Ifyouleavethisfieldblank,

userswillnotbeabletoconnectfromoutsidethelocalnetwork.

24 IntheFSDBHome(FileSystemDatabase)field,typethepathtothedirectorywherevCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseshouldsavethemetricsitcollects.Youcanenteruptoeightlocations

todistribute

driveI/Ouse.Ifyouentermorethanone,separatethemwithsemi‐colons.Forbestperformance,this

shouldnotbeonthesamedrivewherethevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesoftwareisinstalled.

25 InSMTPHostandSMTPPort,enterthehostnameorIPaddressand

portnumberfortheSMTPserver

forvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisetousetosende‐mailmessages.

26 InRecipient,enteroneormoree‐mailaddresses;ifyouentermorethanone,separatethemwithcommas

(,).IfavCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseservicefailsorexperiencesproblems,ane

‐mailwillbe

senttoeachrecipient.

27 Ifdesired,clicktheTestbuttontotestthee‐mailconfiguration.ThischeckstheSMTPhostandport

settingsandattemptstosendane‐mailmessagetotheenteredrecipients.Itdisplaysanappropriate

messageifanyofitstestsfail.However,

itcannotensurethatthee‐mailaddressesenteredasrecipients

actuallyexist,assendingamessagetoanon‐existentaddressdoesnotfailimmediately.

28 ClickFinishtocompletetheinstallation.TheInstallCompletepageappears.

29 OntheInstallCompletepage,clickDone.

30 IftheserverhosthastwoIP

addresses:

a ChooseNoandclickDone.

bOpenthefile

vcenter-ops

\user\conf\collector\ wrapper.conf.

cAddthislinetothefile:

wrapper.java.additional.9=-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=

IP Address/Name

whereIPaddress/NameistheIPaddressorhostnametouseforthecollector.

d Saveyourchangeandclosethefile.

e Rebootthesystem.

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallationiscomplete.

OTEvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesendsalerte‐mailmessagescontaininghyperlinkstothe

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserversoadministratorscanfindmoreinformationaboutthe

alert.Ifyouwantoffsiteadministratorstobeabletousetheselinks,besuretoenterapublicIPaddress

forthevCenter

OperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.Youshouldnotsetthehostnametolocalhost.

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Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise on Linux – GUI Mode

Prerequisites

 TheLinuxuseraccountforinstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisemusthaveroot‐level

privileges.Ifyouneedtobeabletoinstallunderanon‐rootaccount,pleasecontactVMwareProfessional

Services.

 XWindowsSystemrelease11(X11)needstoberunningontheLinuxserver.

 YoumusthaveastandardterminalemulatorforXWindowsSystem.

Before the Installation

IfapreviousversionofvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseisalreadyinstalledontheLinuxhost,you

muststopitsprocessesbeforeyouinstallvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprise.Youcandothisusingthe

vcenter-ops

/vcops.sh.Runthescriptwiththestopparameter:

vcops.sh stop

Tomakesuretheserviceshaveallstopped,usethestatusparameter:

vcops.sh status

Procedure

1Usingbinarymode,uploadvcops.bintothetargetLinuxhost.

2 Navigatetothefoldercontainingvcops.bin.Changethepermissiononthisfiletomakeitexecutable:

chmod +x vcops.bin

3FromwithinanystandardterminalemulatorforXWindows(forexample,X‐Win32),executethe

programvcops.bin.ThefirstpageofthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseinstallationwizard

appears.

4ClickNext.

5ReadthePatentAgreementinitsentirety.ClickNext.

6ReadtheLicenseAgreementinitsentirety.SelectIAcceptthe

TermsoftheLicenseAgreementandclick

Next.

7OntheChooseInstallSetpage,clicktheiconbesideFullInstallationandclickNext.Thisinstallsall

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponents.(IfyouaretryingtoinstallvCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseona32‐bitsystem,FullInstallationwillnot

beachoice.Youcaninstallonlya

vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseremotecollectorortheseparateanalyticsprocessorona32‐bit

system.)

8OntheChooseInstallFolderpage,clickOKtoacceptthedefaultinstallationfolderorclickBrowseand

selecttheinstallationfolderyouwant.Thedefaultinstallation

folderis/root/vmware/vcenter‐operations.

Werecommendyouacceptthe default.ClickNext.

9ThePre‐installationSummarypageliststhecomponentsthatwillbeinstalled.ClickInstalltobeginthe

installation.Whenthispartoftheprocessisfinished(itmaytakeseveralminutes),theConfiguration

Modepageappears.

OTETheCollectoroptioninstallsjustthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecollectoronaremote

servertoimproveperformanceandaccessibility.TheprocedureforthisisinthevCenterOperations

ManagerEnterpriseUser’sGuide.TheCollectorwithHTTPPost&HPOVAdaptersoptioninstallsthe

TomcatWebServer;this

raisessecurityandresourceissues,sowerecommendyoudothisonlyifadvised

tobyvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesupport.Forcontactinformation,pleasesee“Onlineand

TelephoneSupport”onpage 6.

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