Install Vcenter Server - VMware ESX 4.0 - INSTALLATION GUIDE UPDATE 1 Installation Manual

ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide
Procedure
1 On a standalone server, install ESX.
2 On any machine that has network access to your ESX host, install the vSphere Client.
3 Using the vSphere Client, access the ESX host directly to create the virtual machine for hosting
vCenter Server.
4 In the virtual machine, install vCenter Server.

Install vCenter Server

vCenter Server allows you to centrally manage hosts from either a physical or virtual Windows machine, and
enables the use of advanced features such as VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware High
Availability (HA), and VMware VMotion.
Prerequisites
See "vCenter Server Prerequisites,"
Procedure
1 In the software installer directory, double-click the
2 Click vCenter Server.
3 Choose a language for the installer and click OK.
This selection controls the language for only the installer. When you use the vSphere Client to connect to
the vCenter Server system, the vSphere Client appears in the language associated with the locale setting
on your machine. You can alter this behavior with a command-line instruction or by changing the locale
in the registry of the machine. See Basic System Administration.
4 When the Welcome screen appears, click Next.
5 Select I agree to the terms in the license agreement and click Next.
6 Type your user name, organization, and vCenter Server license key, and click Next.
If you omit the license key, vCenter Server will be in evaluation mode, which allows you to use the full
feature set. After installation, you can convert vCenter Server to licensed mode by entering the license key
using the vSphere Client.
7 Choose the type of database that you want to use.
If you want to use the bundled database, click Install SQL Server 2005 Express instance (for small-
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scale deployments).
This database is suitable for deployments of up to 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines.
If you want to use an existing database, click Use an existing supported database and select your
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database from the list of available DSNs. Enter the user name and password for the DSN and click
Next.
If your database is a local SQL Server database using Windows NT authentication, leave the user
name and password fields blank.
If you specify a remote SQL Server database that uses Windows NT authentication, the database user
and the logged-in user on the vCenter Server machine must be the same.
A dialog box might appear warning you that the DSN points to an older version of a repository that must
be upgraded. If you click Yes, the installer upgrades the database schema, making the database irreversibly
incompatible with previous VirtualCenter versions. See the Upgrade Guide.
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