Vcenter installation

Steps

1. DNS Sever needs to be reached from New vCente Sever . DNS is one of the Main c0mponenet of Vcenter
2. Install windows 2008 R2 operating system (From vSphere 4.1 , vcenter is supported only on 64 Bit OS)
3. Enable Application server role to install  .Net Frame work 3.5.1 which is pre-requisite for SQL 2008 Standard Edition 

4. Install SQL 2008 server  on vCenter server

Note : Don’t install the Reporting service in vCenter server as it uses 80 and 43 ports

5. Disable the Dynamic Port
   
   
   

6. Mount the vCenter ISO
   
   
7. Browse to  I:\Single Sign On\DBScripts\SSOServer\schema\mssql Copy the files to Management studio of SQL 2008
    

CREATE LOGIN RSA_DBA WITH PASSWORD = '<CHANGE DBA PASSWORD>', DEFAULT_DATABASE = RSA

CREATE LOGIN RSA_USER WITH PASSWORD = '<CHANGE USER PASSWORD>', DEFAULT_DATABASE = RSA

Change the password and make a note of it. This password is required for further installations. First Script is used to create the data bases called RSA which is used for Single Sign On.

8. Create a new database for Vcenter and Upgrade manager – VCDB and VCUPDATEDB

Set recovery model as Simple for ease of Management.

9. Create a System DSN

 

 

10. Now the pre-requisites for Vcenter 5.1 one is ready . We are good install vcenter 5.1
    
11. Vcenter Single Sign on Installation
    Change the permissions of the RSA_DBA  and RSA_User on RSA database
    Database User : RSA_DBA
    Database User : RSA_User
    Database Instance: vcdb
    
    
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Access rights on the Single Sing on Data Bases

Inventory Services

User Id created while installing Single Sing On

Vcenter Server Installtion

 

 

 

 

 This would complete the installation in vCenter 5.1