vSphere Management Assistant

Setup

Install vMA Appliance

1. Get the OVF URL of the latest version from http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/
2. Import OVF into vCentre
   • You'll need to specify a cluster/host, datastore, and hostname
3. Once imported, power on
4. The VM will go into a Wizard
   • Update IP information
   • Enter a passsword for the vi-admin account (dictionary words not allowed)

Add ESX to vMA

1. Log into the vMA as vi-admin
2. Use vifp addserver/code> command to add ESX and enter root password
   • EG vifp addserver esx-server.domain.com
3. To test, set the session to use the server
   • vifptarget --set esx-server.domain.com
4. and show NICS
   • vicfg-nics -l
5. To enable logging for all servers
   • vilogger enable