Chapter 2. Configuring VCM to Manage Your Infrastructure

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Adding a vCenter Server instance
• Adding a vCloud Director and vShield instance
• Collecting data from managed machines
• Adding a discovery rule
• Adding a network authority account to manage machines in multiple domains
• Configuring a managing agent machine for virtual environment management
• Installing an agent on Windows servers
• Installing an agent on Linux servers
• Creating machine groups