VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 Installation

hello and welcome to a quick overview of how to install and configure VMware's V Center Operations Manager 5.6 a component of the vc operations management suite that provides comprehensive visibility and insights into the performance capacity and health of your infrastructure and business critical applications V Center Operations Manager or VC Ops is actually very easy to install a detailed deployment and installation guide is available but most people should be able to install the product just by watching this video the intend process should take about 30 minutes to complete but a lot of that time will be spent waiting for things to complete or restart so your actual time spent is really closer to maybe 10 or 15 minutes the installation itself is made up of four easy steps to begin with we will simply review and verify the prerequisites for installation and make sure we have gathered all the information we'll need the second is to download the OVA and deploy the vc ops virtual appliance the third step is configuration we'll login and run an initial setup wizard answer some simple questions and then we'll be ready to get started on our fourth step which is to license vc ops which we can do either with a V cloud suite license or a vc ops license let's begin by looking at the short list of prerequisites for installing V Center Operations Manager 5.6 based on the size of your environment the requirements for installing vc ops will be slightly different on the screen you can see the prerequisites for each of the three different tiers of environments a small environment or one up to 1500 virtual machines medium up to 3,000 VMs or a large environment which includes up to 6,000 virtual machines there are two different VMs one for the UI and one for the analytics you'll see in most cases the analytics VM will pull in a few more resources please try and determine what size you're going to want to use for either the evaluation or permanent deployment before you begin now as far as software requirements go in order to collect from a vCenter server using vc ops that particular V Center server needs to be at 4.0 update to or later now for a system running the V app itself it needs to be running on a vCenter server that is also 4.0 update to or later and the ESX that is hosting the V app needs to be at ESX or ESXi 4.0 or higher and here are the supported browsers needed to access the UI Internet Explorer 8 or 9 or firefox 3.6 and above now finally this won't come into play very often but there are some ports that are going to be used to access either the v app through ssh or through the browser those ports are highlighted here on the screen there is also one tunnel that is built between the two VMs the UI and the analytics vm that tunnel uses this particular port here one one nine four and again that should not be a problem in most environments now let's go ahead and get started with the installation itself the first part of the installation is to create an IP pool let's do that by clicking on the data center going to the IP pools tab and then clicking on add will give this IP pool a name in our case we'll call it the vc ops pool now if you already have a pool associated with a specific network you may get a message that the network or the pool already exists you can go ahead and leverage that pool in our case the purpose of this IP pool is to pull in some metadata so when the V app starts up based on a specific IP address we give it it will leverage that IP pool to get the other specifics like DNS information subnet and default gateway we're not actually going to enable this IP pool now to continue with our setup let's go ahead and put in the subnet for our IP pool and the default gateway again we're not going to enable this pool we're just using it to populate information for vc ops now let's go to the DNS tab and here we can put in our DNS domain information and the IP of the server for DNS finally let's click on the associations tab where we can choose the networks that we want this particular V app to be connected to in our case we're going to select the VM network the only network we have in this environment so we just click VM Network and say ok now this screen will allow us to take just a second to review the configuration and make sure that we got everything right and at this point we're done creating the IP pool and we're ready to deploy the OVA and the V app itself now to begin that step let's go ahead and click on the cluster that we will be installing VC Ops 2 and select deploy OVF from template and now we'll browse for the OVA file itself now it is possible that the package may have been saved as a dot tar file if you downloaded it from certain browsers if this is the case simply rename the dot tar 2 dot OVA and to continue let's just open that file up and click Next the next screen will simply verify that this is the vc ops manager 5.6 installation and we'll go ahead and click accept for the user License Agreement now if you wanted to this screen will allow you to change the name of the deployment we're just going to leave it as VMware vCenter operations manager and we'll choose exactly where we want to install it we're going to go ahead and drop it in to our management VMs folder which we've already created and now we have the opportunity to choose small medium or large for the deployment configuration again small is less than 1500 VMs the text on the screen outlines the requirements from a hardware standpoint medium 1,500 to 3,000 VMs and large up to 6,000 virtual machines our installation today will be small for under 1500 VMs now you do have the ability using the v-app to upgrade at a later time it's actually a very simple process it can be done through the product support team or you can do it on your own all you really need to do is give these extra resources to the virtual machines in the V app restart the V app and it will automatically reconfigure itself with the new sizing parameters now let's continue with our installation here and go ahead and click Next and for the resource pools we'll go ahead and move forward with the default now we'll choose where we want to store the VM files themselves we're going to choose the management infrastructure 2 data store and now we need to pick our provisioning here thick provisioning eager zeroed is preferred it's important to note that choosing thin provisioning could have adverse effects on performance so if possible stick with thick provisioning eager zeroed now we have the opportunity to choose our IPS transient is not recommended at all you can use DHCP and you can actually switch back and forth from DHCP to fixed if you find later that you prefer one over the other now there is a knowledgebase article on this process and again VMware support can easily walk you through the process if you need it for our environment today we're going to go with fixed and the next thing we need to do is choose our time zone then put in the IP addresses associated with our two virtual machines first the UI virtual machine and then the analytics VM now these two IP addresses obviously need to match the subnet settings of the IP pool we created earlier so they can map to the IP pool subnet and grab those extra parameters the DNS default gateway etc that we put into the IP pool now once complete we'll go ahead and hit next this next screen gives us a chance to quickly verify that everything has been set up correctly and one quick hint here to save yourself a step check power on after deployment to start up our virtual machine immediately and we'll go ahead and click finish now at this point it's going to do a standard OVF template installation deploy it and go ahead and start it up for us as you can see it's powering up the VM and powering on the virtual machines so after a few minutes we can see that the virtual appliance has been successfully deployed you can see the two virtual machines the analytics VM and the UI VM have started up and we can go ahead and hit close here now let's go check out those two VMs and there's a couple of ways we can do that first we can look at the console and if we see the blue screen of the administration console here you'll know that this particular VM is likely up and running we'll check them both here and it looks like they're both running fine the other way is just to simply launch into the UI itself we can either open up a browser point it to the UI vm's IP a this dot 11 address or again to save time we can simply click on the available button which will launch us directly into the interface and this first time we log in that will take us directly to the administration UI it's taking us there since this is the first time we've actually logged in to this vc ops deployment so it knows that we need to login as an administrator to complete our setup and we'll do that by logging in as admin and the password as admin and vc ops will automatically launch our first time initialization wizard and we can just follow the steps to get everything configured quickly we'll need to put in the IP address of the vCenter server that is hosting this particular instance of vc ops again logging in with the username administrator and our password now we shouldn't need to change the analytics IP address that's all said so we'll go ahead and hit yes to the authentication request the next thing the wizard will ask us to do is to change our passwords the current admin password is admin and then you can go ahead and change that to your new password it will also ask us to change the root password of the two virtual machines themselves the defaults here are VMware all lowercase and then we can go ahead and change it to our new password and click Next now we will need to go set up the specific details for the vCenter server we're going to monitor in our situation here we're actually going to monitor the same vCenter that we are sitting on so we'll need to give that a name in our case it's our lab V Center system that name is actually going to appear in the UI later then we'll enter either the fully qualified domain name or the specific IP address which is what we'll do here then the registration user now the registration user needs to be someone with administrative privileges in the vCenter system we'll go ahead and use administrator and the appropriate password collection users are optional if for some reason you don't want to use the administrator to do the collection you could change that here as well you just need to make sure that the particular user has administrative rights and specific read rights to the objects themselves our next step is to look for plugins here VC Ops is going to look for any old capacity IQ systems installed in the environment if it finds any the wizard will prompt you and walk you through the process of importing all that data it's important to note that the particular cap IQ system has to be installed and have a plug-in in the V Center that we just added and you can only bring over one cap IQ systems data the next step is to look for other linked v centers if you do have linked mode on this particular V Center the wizard will let us know where the other V centers are that are linked with this particular V Center and it will ask if we'd like to monitor those as well it doesn't use link mode to do any of the monitoring but it is a nice step that reminds us that there might be other V centers out there now we don't have any others running in link mode and are set up so we're just go ahead and hit finish and let the wizard register all of these settings with the vCenter server now once the registration is done it will bring us back to the registration page of the administration UI and that's the end of the wizard now we can see that we have a vCenter server registered here are all of our credentials and here's the name that we gave it the lab vCenter system now we can also see that this particular installation of ICI ops is licensed at the foundation level now there are several different levels of Licensing foundation is the lowest level or the default that it starts with out-of-the-box in other words most of the features and functions have been turned off and the application has been stripped down to its basic foundation level to get access to the features that we really need to have the highest visibility and insights into our performance capacity and health in our environment let's go ahead and fully licensed VC ops we can go back to V Center go home and then let's click on licensing then we'll go to assets and we'll look for the vc ops that we just installed we'll right-click and change the license key now as we mentioned earlier there are a couple of ways to license PC Ops if you have a V Cloud suite Enterprise license or a V Cloud suite license you may use those as valid license keys for vc ops or we can add a new key which is what we'll do here just to show you how easy that is here's our new key that happens to be for an enterprise edition of vc ops itself and we'll say ok and then it comes up to say that it is licensed BC Ops does have a process that runs periodically to verify and update its license now the best practice at this point is to either go to the admin UI and restart the vc op service or simply power off the V app and restart it so that it sees its new license which will give us all that new functionality now at the same time let's go ahead and also shut down this V Center client and bring it back online so the new plug-in is available and running as well and at this point we've completed rebooting the virtual appliance for V Center Operations Manager and we've restarted our vCenter client we can now go into the UI onto the summary and click available and please note that this time it's taking us to the regular vCenter UI and we'll login using the credentials we set up earlier and we can see vCenter Operations Manager is indeed installed running and has already started to collect our data now it will continue to collect data over the next several days and as that data collection continues these other badges on the screen will also start to fill in we could also view this vc ops information from within the V Center client itself just by clicking down here in solutions and then applications and selecting V Center Operations Manager and we'll see the exact same dashboard that we saw in the browser now that completes our installation of VC operations manager 5.6 for more information on VC ops or any of the vmware management products please visit vmware.com thank you

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Keywords: vCenter Operations Manager, vmware, vCOps, installation

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Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 01 2013