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The vSMS is a virtual appliance compressed and packaged according to the VMware Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
A supported VMware vSphere environment must already be set up before you can install and use either vSMS solution. For more information, see System requirements.
Important
Important
VMware vCenter server is not required to deploy the vSMS .ovf file. You can deploy the .ovf file directly through ESX/ESXi utilities.

Procedure

  1. Use the VMware vSphere client to log on to and access the ESX/ESXi host where you want to deploy the vSMS.
  2. Select the host where you want to deploy the vSMS.
    When you deploy the vSMS, be sure to deploy it onto an ESX/ESXi host that has network access to the devices you want the vSMS appliance to manage.
  3. Use the following steps to deploy the vSMS .ovf file:
    1. Click File → Deploy OVF Template.
    2. Locate the *.ovf file you obtained when you unzipped the vSMS software package, and then click Next.
    3. Verify the template details, and then click Next.
    4. Specify a name and a location for the vSMS, and then click Next.
    5. Specify a host/cluster where you want to deploy the vSMS, and then click Next.
    6. Select a datastore for the vSMS, and then click Next.
      Note
      Note
      If the storage page of the OVF deployment wizard indicates the host where you are installing the vSMS appliance does not provide sufficient disk space, you should deploy the vSMS appliance to a different host that has sufficient disk capacity. If you do not have another host where you can deploy the vSMS appliance, select Thin Provision format in the next step.
    7. Choose a format for storing the virtual disks:
      • Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed – Storage is immediately allocated, data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out on demand.
      • Thick Provision Eager Zeroed – Storage is immediately allocated, data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created.
      • Thin Provision – Storage is allocated on demand.
    8. Select a Destination Network to which to map the source network in the OVF template.
    9. Verify the deployment settings on the summary screen, and then click Finish.
    The vSMS deployment is complete.
  4. After the OVF deployment process completes, right-click the vSMS virtual machine, and then select Edit Settings.
  5. Confirm that the first network interface is assigned to the virtual network with access to the security devices you want the vSMS to manage, and then click OK.

Start the vSMS server Parent topic

Procedure

  1. Expand the datacenter and datastore folders until you see the virtual machine where you installed vSMS.
  2. Right-click the vSMS and select Power → Power On.
  3. When the virtual machine is powered on, you can open a console to monitor the booting of the guest operating system. To do this, right-click the virtual machine and select Open Console.