Physical Appliance Deployment; Mirrored Network Traffic; Vcollector - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual

Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
Download the following artifacts from the VMware Web site:
http://downloads.vmware.com/Application Discovery Manager
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Core ADM Template: An OVF template that includes all ADM components except for the Windows
Collector and you can configure as Aggregator, Aggregator with remote database, Database, or
Single‐Box.
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Collector ADM Template: A smaller OVF template that includes the Passive Collector and Active and
Passive Collector and you can configure as passive and active discovery Collector and Passive Discovery
Collector.
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Windows Collector Installer: An executable file that installs the Windows Collector component on top of
the Windows 2008 R2 operating systems.

Physical Appliance Deployment

ADM supports the upgrading of existing IBM single box and Distributed solutions (including those that use
a remote database).

Mirrored Network Traffic

The method in which the appliance performs passive discovery is by analyzing mirrored traffic from a switch
or router. Network devices that have the ability to configure a mirrored port (sometimes called as a Switched
Port Analyzer, span port or monitor port) can forward a copy of all the network traffic from all (or selected)
ports to one or more mirrored ports. Typically, each network device has all its ports mirrored to one port. These
mirrored ports are then connected directly to one of the network interfaces on the ESX server.
I Consult IT professionals of your organization to ensure that the appropriate switches or routers
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that contains the network traffic is used for Discovery are configured properly for port mirroring and are
accessible to the ADM appliance.
Perform one of the following steps if you have to connect multiple monitor ports:
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Connect the monitor ports to an aggregate switch (A‐Switch), which is also configured with a monitor
port. Plug the mirrored port of the A‐Switch into the ESX server network interface.
Contact your VMware Sales Representative if you require an A‐Switch.
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Add few more network interfaces to ESX server.
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Install another ADM Passive Collector on a different ESX server.
N The ADM Passive Collector can work with maximum of three monitor ports. If you have to connect
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more than three monitor ports, you must add another ADM Passive Collector.

vCollector

The ADM uses a virtual collector (vCollector) to listen to communication between virtual machines that run
on the same VMware ESX Server. A vCollector is present inside a virtual machine and its listener collects the
information about the virtual machines deployed on the ESX Server. By deploying a vCollector, the ADM is
able to passively discover dependencies in a virtualized environment. You can then view information about
the virtual machines that are deployed on the same ESX Server including:
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Dependency maps between virtual machines.
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Activity counts of the dependencies.
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Services running on the virtual machines.
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Additional information that is offered by the listener.
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