vSphere : vMA Setup

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vSphere : vMA Setup

Import OVF template available form the VM Market Place: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/

Once completed on first boot a wizard will run, you and set an IP address and vi-admin user account password.

Press Alt-F2 from the VM console then login under vi-admin and execute these commands:

sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Change us to uk and reboot (if applicable!).

Login again via SSH or the console.

sudo vi /etc/ntp.conf

Hash out the serv 0/1/2 lines and enter the lines for your internal NTP servers (domain controllers will work):
server 192.168.1.1
server 192.168.1.2

Start the NTP service:

sudo service ntpd start

Configure NTP to start at boot:

sudo chkconfig ntpd on

Join the vMA appliance to the domain, modify the domain name, NETBIOSNAME and username:

sudo domainjoin-cli join domain.local NETBIOSNAME\\adminname

Enable connections to each ESXi host from the vMA:

vifp addserver vm01.domain.local
vifp addserver vm02.domain.local
vifp addserver vm03.domain.local
vifp addserver vm04.domain.local

Confirm server connections:

vifp listservers

Enable remote logging to the vMA applicance, modify theVM host names as required:

vilogger enable –server vm01.domain.local --numrotation 20 –maxfilesize 10 –collectionperiod 10
vilogger enable –server vm02.domain.local --numrotation 20 –maxfilesize 10 –collectionperiod 10
vilogger enable –server vm03.domain.local --numrotation 20 –maxfilesize 10 –collectionperiod 10
vilogger enable –server vm04.domain.local --numrotation 20 –maxfilesize 10 –collectionperiod 10

Logs are now collected and stored under /var/log/vmware/

Confirm logging setup:

vilogger list

You'll probably need to resize the /var/log partition (via gParted) or add an additional drive, and modifiy the log location configurationin /etc/vmware/vMA/vMA.conf