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Contents About This Book 5 1 Introducing Lab Manager and the Installation Process 7 Lab Manager Components 7 Overview of Lab Manager Installation Process 8 2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations 9 vSphere 4.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide 4 Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0 27 Supported Upgrades 27 Upgrading from Lab Manager 3.x 27 Back Up the Lab Manager Database 27 Upgrade VirtualCenter Server to vCenter Server 4.0 28 Install the Lab Manager Server Software 28 Upgrade and Configure Lab Manager 29 Understanding the Upgrade from Lab Manager 3.x 29 Upgrading from Stage Manager 1.
About This Book The Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide includes installation, upgrade, and configuration tasks for VMware© vCenterTM Lab Manager. Intended Audience This guide is intended for VMware vSphereTM administrators and current vCenter Lab Manager and vCenter Stage Manager administrators. Document Feedback VMware welcomes your suggestions for improving our documentation. If you have comments, send your feedback to docfeedback@vmware.com.
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1 Introducing Lab Manager and the Installation Process 1 VMware vCenter Lab Manager is an application that provides a rapid provisioning portal and image library management system to automate the setup and teardown of multimachine software configurations and manage service transition activities. Lab Manager leverages VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter to provide virtual infrastructure resources to multiple teams, projects, and geographies from a central location.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide Figure 1‐1 illustrates the components of Lab Manager and how it works with VMware vSphere. Figure 1-1. Lab Manager Components Lab Manager Web Console or SOAP API VM Consoles: TCP 902, 903 HTML over HTTPS Lab Manager Server VIM API VMware vSphere vCenter Server ESX/ESXi servers FC, iSCSI, or NFS shared storage virtual machines and media Overview of Lab Manager Installation Process The installation process involves the tasks described in Table 1‐1.
2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations 2 To use Lab Manager, your system must meet certain requirements. This chapter includes these topics: “vSphere 4.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide ESX/ESXi Server Recommendations To achieve the best possible performance from your Lab Manager server system, VMware recommends specific configuration settings for ESX/ESXi hosts. Use the same host CPU across all hosts in the Lab Manager environment. CPU homogeneity makes virtual machines more mobile for Lab Manager deployment and allows Lab Manager to derive benefits from features such as VMotion, DRS, and HA.
Chapter 2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations Datastore Requirements and Recommendations Virtual machines and media files can reside on VMFS and NFS datastores. For more information about datastores and media stores, see the Lab Manager User’s Guide. VMware recommends shared storage (NFS, iSCSI, or FibreChannel). VMware also recommends using a small number of large SAN VMFS partitions rather than a large number of small partitions.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide Processor Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon, Opteron, or Athlon processor Hard Disk 40GB minimum (Recommended) RAID 1 or RAID 5 for fault tolerance benefits, or RAID 0+1 for fault tolerance and performance benefits Memory 512MB minimum (Recommended) 2GB or more Network At least one unbound Ethernet card Its NIC must be physically connected to the network (no wireless cards) and have a static IP address.
Chapter 2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations For information about these operations, see the Lab Manager User’s Guide. Install IIS on the Lab Manager Server for Windows 2003 You must have IIS installed and enabled on the Lab Manager server. Install IIS before you install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. During the installation procedure, you might need to insert the Windows Server 2003 boot disk into the CD or DVD drive of the server.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide To verify the version of an existing .NET Framework installation 1 Select Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs. 2 Click the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 program and click the link for support information. If you do not see version 2.1.21022 or higher listed for the .NET Framework, install it. Install the .NET Framework on the Lab Manager Server Install IIS before you install the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. To install .
Chapter 2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations Table 2-1.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide Web Console Access Requirements To use a browser to access the Lab Manager Web console, the machine must have the following requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. For information about which Web browsers are supported on which client operating systems, see the appendix section of the Lab Manager User’s Guide.
Chapter 2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations The Lab Manager server and ESX/ESXi hosts need access to the media storage but are not required to reside on the same subnet. ESX/ESXi hosts need access to NFS virtual machine storage. Configuring Domains and Permissions Because the Lab Manager server and ESX/ESXi hosts must mount shares for virtual machine import and export operations, these systems require matching DNS and DNS suffix information.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide IP Addresses for Virtual Machines Reserve a range of IP addresses for virtual machines on each physical network that Lab Manager will use. This range is in addition to the IP addresses required for each Lab Manager server and ESX/ESXi host. IP addresses for virtual machines are allocated from the pool of IP addresses that you reserve.
Chapter 2 Installation Requirements and Recommendations Generate a Custom SSL Certificate You can use OpenSSL to generate a custom SSL certificate with the domain name or IP address for accessing the Lab Manager server. VMware recommends generating the custom certificate on the Lab Manager server. To use OpenSSL to generate a custom SSL certificate 1 Download and install OpenSSL on the Lab Manager server. 2 Create a file named OpenSSlVMware.cfg in a working directory.
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3 Installing Lab Manager 3 Installing Lab Manager involves installing the Lab Manager server software, performing initialization tasks, and logging in to the Lab Manager Web console.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide 9 Enter the SSL port number for the Web site. The default is 443. 10 Click Install. 11 Click Finish. Initialize and Configure Lab Manager You can configure Lab Manager Web console on any computer with network access to the Lab Manager server. The first time you access the Web console, a security certificate warning might appear. To avoid this warning, use an FQDN or install an SSL certificate. See “Generate a Custom SSL Certificate” on page 19.
Chapter 3 Installing Lab Manager 10 Set up a default physical network. a Enter a name for the network. b (Optional) Type a description. c (Optional) Type a VLAN identifier. d Select the IP addressing modes for the network. Static ‐ IP Pool allows Lab Manager to pull static IP addresses from the IP address pool. DHCP allows Lab Manager to pull IP addresses from a DHCP server. Static ‐ Manual allows you to specify an IP address. See “Static IP and DHCP Networking” on page 24.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide Static IP and DHCP Networking You can use static IP or DHCP networking in Lab Manager for each virtual machine NIC. To avoid setting up an IP range, use DHCP to obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server. DHCP does not work with network fencing, a feature that allows multiple users to work with live instances of the same virtual machine configuration on the same network. For details on fencing, see the appendix section of the Lab Manager User’s Guide.
Chapter 3 Installing Lab Manager 6 Log out of the Lab Manager Web console. 7 On the Lab Manager server, select Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs. 8 Select the VMware vCenter Lab Manager program and click Change. 9 Select Remove. 10 Select the check box to uninstall Lab Manager and remove user data. CAUTION If you plan to upgrade or reinstall Lab Manager, do not remove the user data. 11 Click Remove. 12 Click Finish.
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4 Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0 4 You can upgrade to Lab Manager 4.0 from a previous version of Lab Manager or from VMware vCenter Stage Manager. This chapter includes the following topics: “Supported Upgrades” on page 27 “Upgrading from Lab Manager 3.x” on page 27 “Upgrading from Stage Manager 1.x” on page 29 “Upgrading ESX Server” on page 34 Supported Upgrades You can upgrade from Lab Manager 3.x or Stage Manager 1.x to Lab Manager 4.0. If you are currently using Lab Manager 2.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide To back up the database From the command prompt on the Lab Manager 3.x server, use the following sample command or your own backup method. OSQL -S localhost\vlm -E -Q "backup database labmanager TO DISK='c:\lm_backup.bak'" This sample command creates the lm_backup.bak file on the C:\ drive. Upgrade VirtualCenter Server to vCenter Server 4.0 Upgrade your VirtualCenter Server to vCenter Server 4.0 as described in the vSphere Upgrade Guide.
Chapter 4 Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0 Upgrade and Configure Lab Manager You can upgrade and configure the Lab Manager server from any system with access to the Lab Manager server. The first time you access the console, a security certificate warning might appear. To avoid this warning, use an FQDN or install an SSL certificate. If you used a custom SSL certificate or an SSL certificate from a trusted certification authority with Lab Manager 3.x, you must re‐import the certificate to IIS.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide If you are unable to undeploy certain virtual machines, Stage Manager displays an error. Use the Force Undeploy command to undeploy the virtual machines from Stage Manager and then use the VI Client to power off and remove each virtual machine from its ESX host. Back Up the Stage Manager Database VMware recommends backing up the Stage Manager 1.x database as a precaution. The backup is only necessary to revert to Stage Manager before the upgrade is complete.
Chapter 4 Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0 4 Specify whether you want an express or custom installation. Select Custom to change the program files directory for Lab Manager. 5 Accept the default VMwareLMWeb and VMwareLMUser passwords, or enter your own passwords. Lab Manager creates these accounts as part of the installation and generates a random password for them. If your network has a restrictive password policy, enter passwords that meet your policy’s requirements.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide Base Distinguished Name – The base distinguished name, or base DN, identifies the location in the LDAP directory where Lab Manager connects. VMware recommends connecting at the root, in which case you enter the domain components only, for example: DC=vmware,DC=com. 8 User Name/Password/Confirm Password – Enter a user name to connect to the LDAP server and enter and confirm the password. Click Test LDAP Upgrade.
Chapter 4 Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0 Configurations Lifecycle configurations are available in the organization and workspace with names that match their service and stage names in Stage Manager. Archive configurations are available in the configuration library for the organization whose name matches the service name in Stage Manager. Users and Groups All Stage Manager users (LDAP and non‐LDAP) are added to the Default organization in Lab Manager.
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide Upgrading ESX Server Lab Manager 4.0 supports versions 3.5 and 4.0 of ESX Server and ESXi Server. You can continue to use the ESX 3.5 hosts that were part of your Lab Manager 3.x or Stage Manager 1.x installation. To take advantage of new vSphere features, upgrade your ESX hosts to version 4.0. VMware recommends using VMotion to move virtual machines off the ESX host that you want to upgrade. Next, install ESX Server 4.0 on the host.
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