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Integrating VMware with Altiris solution along with initial planning

In this article you will learn how to integrate VMware with Altiris, I will try to cover maximum in this, Over here you will learn from VMware installation ESX 3.5 to integration With VMware, To support the flow of this article, Some KB will be followed for understanding in better way, I hope to be informative for you.

Installation and configuration of VMware ESX

Following are the pre-requisites for installing VMware solution on server

1) VMware ESX Server CD

2) Server Hardware that supports Virtualization for VMware ESX 3.5 installation.

After inserting ESX cd in Cdrom you will be presented with the screen below that will go through the installation

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Select next

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Select English Keyboard

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Select Mouse

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Select I accept Terms of the license agreement

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Select partition options

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Allocate Network setting

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Select Time zone

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Provide Account Information

Installation of VCMS for managing ESX servers-Before that what is Virtual center-

• Centralized management capabilities allow IT organizations

To organize, monitor, and configure the entire IT environment

Through a single interface resulting in lower operating costs

• Rapid provisioning with deployment wizard and virtual machine

Templates reduces the time and effort for creating and deploying

Virtual machines to a few mouse clicks.

• Performance monitoring capabilities, including utilization

Graphs of CPU, memory, Disk I/O, and Network I/O provide the

Detail needed to analyze the performance of physical servers, and

The virtual machines they are running.

• Operational automation through task scheduling and alerting

Improves responsiveness to business needs and prioritizes actions

Needing the most urgent attention

• Secure access control, robust permissions mechanisms, and

integration with Microsoft® Active Directory guarantee authorized

access to the environment and its virtual machines. Responsibilities

can be delegated to tiers of system administrators.

• Resource optimization through performance monitoring, multiserver

resource pools, and dynamic workload balancing delivers

the highest virtual machine to physical server ratio while improving

service levels to software applications. Automated data centerwide

resource optimization with VMware DRS aligns available

resources with pre-defined business priorities while streamlining

labor and resource intensive operations across disparate hardware,

operating system, and software applications.

• Migration of live virtual machines across entirely separate

physical servers with VMware VMotion makes the maintenance of

IT environments non-disruptive

• High availability provided by VMware HA enables broad-based,

cost-effective application failover independent of hardware and

operating systems.

• Integration with third party systems management products

through Web services APIs provided by the VMware Infrastructure

SDK.

After this introduction lets install VCMS

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Select next

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Select I Accept

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Give username/Organization Name

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Select Virtual Center Server

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Provide SQL server information

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Provide License Information

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Select Install for Installation

So here we had successfully installed ESX 3.5 so let see how we can integrate Altiris with Vmware.

Integration of Altiris with VMware- To support integration part, the below data has been captured from Kb article: 2133

In recognition of the growing popularity and maturity of system Virtualization solutions such as VMware, Altiris now officially supports it’s Customers who wish to use VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server/PC in any Of the following scenarios:

Hosted Server

Running the Altiris Notification Server and supported Solutions in a virtual machine session

Managed Virtual Machine

Managing a supported virtual machine using Altiris Solutions

Managed Host

Managing a supported host machine using Altiris Solutions Altiris will support the normal operation of specified products in each of these scenarios. The details of what platforms and products are supported for each scenario are provided in the subsequent pages of this statement.

Altiris’ standard support policy, if a customer were to run into a problem using a supported product in a supported scenario, they should report the issue to the Altiris Support team via our Customer Services

Helpdesk, email, or telephone so that Altiris can work to resolve the issue. Issues reported on a supported virtual platform running a supported guest/host OS will be handled like any other issue. Specifically, Altiris will prioritize the issue based on severity, attempt to diagnose the problem, and evaluate whether it is necessary to address the issue with a code fix (hot fix, service pack, version release) based on severity, pervasiveness, etc. See the “Known Issues” section for information on currently identified issues.

SUPPORTED SCENARIOS

Below are the supported Scenarios

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Using Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8 to Provision & Manage VMware in dell server environment

- I recommend you to read this article (Using Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8 to Provision & Manage), I am attaching article with this, its worth really if you plan to integrate virtualization with DS

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