Steps to roll out vCenter Operations Manager

These are the steps you need to take to install vCOPS into a vSphere environment.

1. It is very important that all components (vCenter, Hosts, monitored Hardware, …) using time synchronization
2. Add an IP-Pool in vCenter
   • This should be done in (installed) vSphere client
   • Click on the Datacenter and on the tab “IP-Pools”
   • Fill in: Subnet, Mask, Gateway, activate DHCP if there is any, DNS Server data, associated network, vCOPS should run in
3. deploy vApp
   • ATTENTION:
     If you want to deploy the vApp into a clster that don’t have DRS enabled – because you don’t need it, or you don’t have the license to use it – you CAN NOT deploy the vApp! You have at this option:
     • Take one host out of the cluster and deploy the vApp to this host. After the deployment, start the vApp and add the host to the cluster again.
   • Use Web Client to deploy vApp! There are settings of the vApp that are not implemented in installed client, using Web Client works better.
   • In tiny environment “thin provision” works also fine
   • Use “fixed” to configure IP addressees of both VMs
4. Basic configuration
   • Log in https://ip-of-UI/admin.
     • User: admin
     • Default password: admin
   • In case you need root access, the default password for root is: vmware
   • Use First-Time-Wizard
   • Configure SMTP settings
5. Licensing
   • Use license managing in vCenter Web Client
   • use “Solution” to assign vCOPS license
   • restart vCOPS in admin-page to use assigned license
6. Wait for 3 – 4 weeks for letting vCOPS collect and analyse data