VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

Over 80 recipes to teach you the power of vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8 to provide automated and continuous configuration management

About This Book

• First book in the market that provides a broad configuration and compliance management solution for your enterprise.
• Champion the skills of the latest features of VMware vRealize Configuration Manager and implement it in your organization.
• A recipe based approach book that will enlighten you to configure VCM to collect and manage data from your virtual and physical environment.

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator who is eager to provide better administration with VCM and are familiar with managing network users and resources along with performing system maintenance, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Find out how to configure automated patching of your infrastructure for Windows as well Unix machines
• Maintain and upgrade your vRealize Configuration Manager
• Integrate with other VMware tools such as vCloud Director, vRealise Operations, vCenter, and vCloud Network and Security
• Understand what vRealize Configuration Manager is and what its capacities are
• Explore how vRealize Configuration Manager can be used for patching, compliance management, and software distribution
• Troubleshoot vRealize Configuration Manager with ease

In Detail

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) helps you to automate IT operations, manage performance, and gain visibility across physical and virtual infrastructure. It is continuously being used by enterprises to audit the configurations of the VMware infrastructure as well as the Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems.

This book is filled with practical recipes through which you will learn about the latest features of vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8.X, starting with installation of various tiers of VCM followed by configuration management across physical and virtual servers.

Throughout this book, you will explore how VCM can perform tasks such as patch management, compliance assessment, and software package distribution along with Machine filters for new platforms such as RHEL 7 and Windows 10. This book will ease your troubles while upgrading from the existing VCM to the latest version by providing you with step-by-step instructions about the process of migration along with upgrade and maintenance support. This book will help you understand how to integrate vRealize Configuration with other applications along with schedule management and also guide you on how to handle security issues.

After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of how VCM fits in the overall picture of the data center design from a patching and compliance perspective.

Style and approach

This book takes a recipe-based approach that will provide you with an effective and a practical configuration management solution for your enterprise.

超過80個食譜，教你如何運用vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8的強大功能，提供自動化和持續的配置管理。

關於本書：
- 市場上首本提供廣泛配置和合規管理解決方案的書籍，適用於企業使用。
- 掌握VMware vRealize Configuration Manager的最新功能，並在組織中實施。
- 以食譜為基礎的方法，幫助你配置VCM以收集和管理虛擬和物理環境中的數據。

本書適合對VCM提供更好管理的系統管理員，並熟悉管理網絡用戶和資源以及執行系統維護的人。

你將學到：
- 瞭解如何配置Windows和Unix機器的基礎設施自動打補丁
- 維護和升級你的vRealize Configuration Manager
- 與其他VMware工具（如vCloud Director、vRealise Operations、vCenter和vCloud Network and Security）集成
- 瞭解vRealize Configuration Manager的功能和能力
- 探索vRealize Configuration Manager如何用於打補丁、合規管理和軟件分發
- 輕鬆解決vRealize Configuration Manager的故障排除

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager（VCM）幫助你自動化IT操作，管理性能，並在物理和虛擬基礎設施上獲得可見性。企業持續使用它來審核VMware基礎設施以及Windows、Linux和UNIX操作系統的配置。

本書充滿了實用的食譜，讓你了解vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8.X的最新功能，從安裝各種VCM層開始，然後進行物理和虛擬服務器的配置管理。

在本書中，你將探索VCM如何執行打補丁管理、合規評估和軟件包分發等任務，還有針對新平台（如RHEL 7和Windows 10）的機器篩選器。本書將通過提供逐步指南，幫助你從現有的VCM升級到最新版本，並提供升級和維護支持。本書還將幫助你瞭解如何將vRealize Configuration與其他應用程序集成，以及如何處理安全問題。

閱讀本書後，你將清楚瞭解VCM在整個數據中心設計中的位置，從打補丁和合規的角度。

本書以食譜為基礎的方法，為你的企業提供了一個有效和實用的配置管理解決方案。