Adding the Microsoft SCVMM server to TrueSight Server Automation

This topic describes how to add the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to the TrueSight Server Automation environment. This topic includes the following sections:

• • To install the agent
  • To add the SCVMM server
  • Where to go from here

To install the agent

1. Install the RSCD agent on the VMM server, as described in Installing-the-RSCD-agent-Windows. Be sure to install the Windows x64 agent.
2. Push Acls to the system and ensure the Role(s) that will be interacting with SCVMM are mapped to a local or domain account with the appropriate privileges to mange the server.

To add the SCVMM server

1. From within the TrueSight Server Automation Console, add the SCVMM server as a managed server to a server group (right-click a server group and select Add Server ).
2. Select Configuration > Property Dictionary View.
3. Browse the Built-in Property Classes > Connection class.

4. Click the Instances tab.
    A Connection instance is automatically created with the name Connection_<nameofVMMEnrolled>, where <nameofVMMEnrolled> is the name of the SCVMM server.

   Note

   Your user role must have the appropriate role-based access permissions to update the Connection instance, otherwise the association between the instances is not created and the server is not enrolled. Also, if a Connection instance is already associated with the Virtualization instance then a new instance is not automatically created.

   This new instance contains the connection details for the SCVMM server.

5. You can modify the following properties for the new Connection instance:

   Property	Value
   CONNECTION_URL	Enter the host name or IP address of the Microsoft VMM Server. Ensure that this URL matches with the VMM server name registered in TrueSight Server Automation. For example, if the VMM server name is pw-aus-bsa-qa02.sqltest.bladelogic.com then the CONNECTION_URL will be pw-aus-bsa-qa02.sqltest.bladelogic.com
   CONNECTION_USER	Enter the name of an administrator of Microsoft VMM, or another user with required privileges. If you need to provide a domain name with the username, enter it here as <domainName\adminUserName>.
   CONNECTION_PASSWORD	Enter the password of the user that is mentioned in the CONNECTION_USER property. New in 8.9.03.001 Select a value from the Encryption Type list. The list contains two values: BLNative AES 256 By default, BLNative is selected.

6. Distribute configuration objects to the SCVMM server:
   1. From the TrueSight Server Automation Console, navigate to the Jobs folder.
   2. Right-click a job group and select New > Administration Task > Distribute Configuration Objects.
   3. Provide a name for the Job and click Next.
   4. Expand the Global Configuration Objects list, select the Microsoft VMM object, and add it to the Selected Configuration Objects section. Click Next.
   5. On the Targets panel, select the VMM server.
   6. Click Finish, and execute the job. For details, see Distributing-configuration-objects.

Where to go from here

You can now use the TrueSight Server Automation Console to Live Browse the server and access the Microsoft VMM node. See Browsing-Hyper-V-virtual-machines.

For details on adding a server and setting properties, see Adding-a-server-to-the-system.

To create VM templates for provisioning Hyper-V VMs, see Creating-Generation-1-Virtual-Machine-Templates-on-SCVMM and Creating-Generation-2-Virtual-Machine-Templates-on-SCVMM.