5 Minutes with vCenter Operations Manager 5
I installed the new vCenter Operations Manager 5 about an hour ago. Whoa. I had the pleasure of meeting Kit Colbert, Praveen Kannan, and Martin Klaus last April when they were in town, and I know they, and the rest of the team, have been doing a lot of work on the product. It really shows. Here are my first impressions, literally. 1. The install procedure is very straightforward, in that I was able to get it fully installed without reading any documentation. The product is a vApp now, and comes with two components, the Analytics VM and the UI VM. You need two IPs, and despite the OVF import process prompting for the IPs those IPs need to be …