VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE REQUIEREMENTS GUIDE Configuration page 34

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15. Click Next. The Ready to Install page appears.
16. Click Install. The Installation Progress page appears.
17. When the installation is completed, click Next. The Installation Complete page appears, displaying the
completed installations. The Status value for the installed products should display Success.
18. Click Next. The Additional Information page appears.
19. Clear the Launch the User Provisioning Tool check box.
20. Click Finish.
21. Restart the machine to apply the changes.
Verifying and Configuring the SQL Server Properties
Some of the information in this section requires verifying the settings configured during installation and
some of the configuration settings are new. Use the following procedure to set the server-wide SQL
database settings in preparation for installing VCM. For more information on server-wide and database-
specific SQL Server database settings, see VCM Installation and Getting Started Guide.
1. Click Start | All Programs | Microsoft SQL Server 2005 | SQL Server Management Studio.
2. Right-click on the SQL instance, and then select Properties. The Server Properties dialog box appears.
3. In the left pane, select each of the following and confirm the settings:
General (These options are display only.)
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Version: Version 9.00.4035.00 indicates SP3. If the version number is lower than the ones
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listed, you need to install SP3.
Language: English (United States). If this information is not correct, you may not have
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installed the English (United States) version of SQL Server 2005. You may need to uninstall
and install the correct version.
Server Collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. If this information is not correct, you
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did not select the SQL Collations setting Dictionary order, case-insensitive, for use with
1252 Character Set. Uninstall and reinstall SQL Server.
Security (These options may be configured.)
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Windows Authentication mode: Either of these options works with VCM. The Mixed
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Mode is recommended
SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode: (Mixed Mode) This option is
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recommended.
Database Settings (These options may be configured.)
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Default index fill factor: Type or select a percentage value. This value specifies the
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amount of free space within each index page when it is rebuilt. Assign a value of at least
20% free space in an index (setting the fill factor to 80% means there is 20% free space
available).
Recovery interval (minutes): Type or select 5.
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4. To save your changes, click OK.
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