What is vma server

Review the release notes here for system requirements. This post will cover the installation and configuration of vSphere Management Assistant 6.

Unzip the contents of the download and make a note of the file location. In order to deploy the virtual appliance we need an available Network Protocol Profile. In the vSphere web client browse to the datacentre level where the appliance will reside, select the Manage tab and click Network Protocol Profiles.

Click the green plus symbol to create a new profile, follow the wizard and assign the relevant network and settings to the profile. In this case you should ensure the profile has been created and correctly configured. Once the appliance is powered on open the console. Enter 0 to check the configuration, use the relevant numbers to configure the default gateway, hostname, DNS, and IP address allocation.

Once complete enter 1 to exit the setup program. You will be prompted to change the default password for the vi-admin account, enter the old password vmware and a new password. Login as the vi-admin user and the password you changed during setup. The vMA allows administrators to store credentials for automatic authentication when managing ESXi hosts. Using a component called vi-fastpass two accounts are created and the passwords stored in an unreadable format; vi-admin administrator account and vi-user read only.

These accounts prevent the user from having to log in to each host and facilitate unattended scheduled script operations. Alternatively vMA can be configured to use Active Directory for authentication, providing more security controls.

The following commands are useful for AD tasks in vMA:. The same commands available to the ESXi shell, such as esxcli , esxcfg , esxtop resxtop since we are connecting remotely , can be used with vCLI. Furthermore the vCLI includes a subset of vmware-cmd and vicfg commands. You can use more and less commands to assist with truncating information. For example esxcli —help more and esxcli —help less.

More allows for scrolling down only, use enter to scroll one line at a time and space to scroll a page at a time. The following VMware documentation will get you started with the command line interface. Collecting performance logs involves using VMware tools and scripts running on vMA to extract performance statistics.

Configure a Local File Source. Before collecting can begin, you'll need to invoke scripts to transform the performance data from the resxtop utility so it's delivered in a format that Sumo Logic can consume.

These scripts query the vCenter Server for events. Replace [vCenterServer] with the name of the target vCenter Server in your environment. In the standard output, you should see the query time range and the number of events collected. The events themselves are stored inside the output. If you're prompted to enter a username or password, it means that the credentials for the target vCenter Server are not set properly.

If you want to collect events older than the past 24 hours, see Collect Historical Events. Each time the script is called, it writes the timestamp of the last read event in a file named. Once this command completes successfully, you can begin to pick up ongoing events by setting up the CRON job as described in step 2 of Collecting Event Messages.

Performance data collection for ESXi servers associated with a vCenter server works by sequentially getting data from each ESXi server. Having a large number of servers associated with a vCenter can cause delays.

To avoid delays, you can parallelize collection by creating multiple segments from the list of ESXi servers associated with a vCenter server. The number of segments would depend on the amount of data you are collecting and how often you would like to collect performance data.

For example, let's say you have a ESXi servers associated with a single vCenter server; it takes more than 2 minutes for the performance collection script to collect data from all ESXi servers.

Or, if you have ESXi servers and five segments, then each segment would have 20 servers. However, if there's an odd number of servers, say servers and 6 sgments, then 5 segments have 24 servers, and the last 6th segment will have 20 servers. Before collecting from multiple segments, you can test how ESXi servers will be divided up into segments by using the -test option.

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