Distributed Appliance Solutions; Virtual And Physical Appliance Solutions; Virtual Appliance Deployment - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual

Distributed Appliance Solutions

The distributed appliance solution has at least one designated appliance enabled as a Collector, and another
appliance enabled as an Aggregator and Database as shown in Figure
Figure 1-3. Distributed Appliance Solution
ESX2
vSwitch
ADM VM4
Role = Passive collector
Passive
Discovery
ESX4
vSwitch
ADM VM6
Role = Windows Collector
(running Win2008
on any ESX)
Active Discovery-
Windows
N In a Distributed with remote database setup, there is a designated appliance to host the database. Also,
OTE
Passive and Detail Discovery can run on single or multiple Collectors.

Virtual and Physical Appliance Solutions

You can set up ADM either:

On your ESX or ESXi servers as described in "Virtual Appliance Deployment" on page 11

On existing IBM physical appliances, only upgrading is supported as described in "Upgrading ADM" on
page 13.

Virtual Appliance Deployment

ADM version 6.1.x is delivered as VA, which is a virtual machine image that includes an operating system and
the relevant ADM software components installed on it. A VA can run one or multiple ADM components
depending on the appliance role selected.
Deploying a virtual machine template in an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) onto the ESX or ESXi server
creates an ADM Virtual Appliance. After deployment, power up the VA and then configure the standard
appliance settings, network, and user information.
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ESX3
vSwitch
ADM VM4
Role = Collector
Active Discovery-
Unix
Passive
Discovery
Physical
switch 1
1‐3.
ESX1
ADM VM3
Role = collector Role = Aggregator
Active Discovery-
Unix
Passive
Discovery
Runs on (Virtualization)
Physical
Logical monitoring
switch 2
port connectivity
ADM Connectivity
Chapter 1 Overview
vSwitch
ADM VM1
Aggregator
Database
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