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Chapter 6 Installing VMware Infrastructure Management

 YoucandeployVirtualCenterbehindafirewall.However,makesurethereisno

NetworkAddressTranslation(NAT)firewallbetweenVirtualCenterandthehosts

itwillmanage.

 Theinstallerautomaticallyinstallsalicenseserverforyou,unlessyouenterapath

toanexistinglicenseserver.

 Touseanexistinglicenseserver,obtainthehostnameorIPaddress.

 Toallowtheinstallertoinstallalicenseserver,youneedavalidservedlicense

file.

Becausethelicenseserverdoesnotsupportlicensefilesonanetworkshare,

placeyourlicensefilesinadirectoryonasystemwhereyouareinstallingthe

licenseserver.

Components Installed

TheVMwareInfrastructureManagementinstallerincludesthefollowingcomponents:

 VMwareVirtualCenterServer–AWindowsservicetomanageESXServerhosts.

 VIClient–AclientapplicationusedtoconnectdirectlytoanESXServeror

indirectlytoanESXServerthroughaVirtualCenterServer.

 Microsoft.NETFramework–SoftwareusedbytheVirtualCenterServer,Database

Upgradewizard,andtheVIClient.

 MicrosoftSQLServer2005Express–AfreeversionoftheMicrosoftSQLServer

databaseforsmaller‐scaleapplications.Ifyouenterapathtoanexistingdatabase,

theinstallerdoesnotinstallMicrosoftSQLServer2005Express.

 VMwareUpdateManager(optional)–AVirtualCenterpluginthatprovides

securitymonitoringandpatchingsupportforESXServerhostsandvirtual

machines.

 VMwareConverterEnterpriseforVirtualCenterServer(optional)–A

VirtualCenterpluginthatenablesyoutoconvertyourphysicalmachinestovirtual

machines.

 VMwarelicenseserver–AWindowsserviceallowingallVMwareproductstobe

licensedfromacentralpoolandmanagedfromoneconsole.Ifyouenterapathto

anexistinglicenseserver,theinstallerdoesnotinstallalicenseserver.