vshishtech: Part 4. Prepare the VM template for Cloud provisioning

1. Agent files and Location (on AppDirector).

Copy the necessary agents files depending on the OS and architecture to the VM template /tmp folder. You can use SCP/WGET/WinSCP anything.

# cd /home/darwin/tcserver/darwin/webapps/darwin/agent

Below are the files you would be primarily interested in (depending on type of OS and architecture):

jre-1.7.0_72-lin32.zip
jre-1.7.0_72-win64.zip
jre-1.7.0_72-lin64.zip
vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_i386.rpm
vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_x86_64.rpm

If you are using the web browser then below is the link (just change the file names):

http://<vra-appliance server>/agent/jre-1.7.0_72-lin64.zip

2. Create a folder vmware-jre

# mkdir /opt/vmware-jre

3. Unzip the jre package to the folder vmware-jre

# unzip -d /tmp/jre-1.7.0_72-lin32.zip /opt/vmware-jre

if unzip is not installed then do #yum install unzip

verify the version installed,

# /opt/vmware-jre/bin/java -version

Also (optional) you could install the latest JDK updates using below commands but purely upto you,

# yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk

4. Download and install the Linux agent (gugent)

a. Download the file

b. Copy the file,

The file downloaded will be "LinuxGuestAgentPkgs.zip". Copy this file to the VM template /tmp folder.

c.Unzip this file

# unzip -d /tmp/LinuxGuestAgentPkgs.zip

Now you should see a folder LinuxGuestAgentPkgs with many folders inside depending on Linux OS and architecture.

# cd LinuxGuestAgentPkgs
# cd rhel5-x86

d. Install the gugent

# rpm -i gugent-6.2.0-103014.i386.rpm

5. Install vCAC agent

This is the file we copied in the step 1 above,

# rpm -i vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_i386.rpm

6. Register vCAC

For SSL connection

/opt/vmware-appdirector/agent-bootstrap/vcac-register.sh -r 443 -s <IaaS server fqdn>

For Non-SSL connection

/opt/vmware-appdirector/agent-bootstrap/vcac-register.sh -r 80 -n -s <vRA server fqdn>

7. Install Gugent (vrm-agent)

For SSL connection
/usr/share/gugent/installgugent.sh vsvcac.teapot.com:443 ssl

For Non-SSL connection

/usr/share/gugent/installgugent.sh vsiaas.teapot.com ssl

8. Verify if all went well

chkconfig --list | grep vrm-agent

rpm -qa | grep dmidecode

rpm -qa | grep vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac

Run this command to verify the agent installation, all should pass without error ([ERROR]).

/usr/share/gugent/rungugent.sh