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)

Setup Date Time

1. Remove existing date time zone
   • sudo rm /etc/localtime
2. Add link to appropriate locale
   • sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
3. Enable NTP daemon
   • sudo chkconfig ntpd on
4. Edit the NTP config file to add your NTP server(s)
   • sudo vi /etc/ntp.conf
   • Edit the server entries as required
5. Start the NTP daemon
   • sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd start

Add ESX to vMA

1. Log into the vMA as vi-admin
2. Use vifp addserver 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