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Manage Multiple vCenter AIMs

If you have multiple AIMs with the same configuration, the vCenter PMM selects the first detected AIM configured with the same credentials. If the selected, managed AIM is not the desired AIM, the vCenter Server can be switched. The vCenter PMM performs the following steps depending on whether you add, remove, or switch vCenter Servers:

Adding vCenter Server

  1. Validating and saving vCenter Server credentials.
  2. Detecting AIM with vCenter Server configuration.
  3. Saving AIM configuration, and creating required objects.

Removing vCenter Server

  1. Removing vCenter Server credentials.
  2. Deleting objects.
  3. Removing AIM configuration.

Switching vCenter Server

  1. Saving AIM configuration to both AIM and database.
  2. Deleting and recreating objects based upon the new configuration.

Note: A small delay can occur between adding or removing vCenter Server credentials and the time the configuration entry is added or removed.

For a successful deployment, verify that the AIMs are configured and discovered properly prior to updating.

If you did not configure a vCenter Server AIM during installation, perform the following procedure that enables you to manage vCenter Server resources.

To manage multiple vCenter AIMs

  1. Install the vCenter AIM on a server and configure the AIM during installation or later with the NodeCfgUtil utility from the command-line available on that server.
  2. Let CA Server Automation discover the system on which the vCenter Server AIM runs.
  3. Change to Administration, Configuration, vCenter Server.

    The vCenter Server pane and the vCenter AIM Servers pane appear.

  4. Add vCenter Servers you want to manage into the vCenter Server pane. Use valid credentials of your vCenter Server environment.

    In the vCenter AIM Servers pane the user interface displays a list of one-to-one relationships between available vCenter AIMs and vCenter Servers. If a displayed, managed AIM is not the desired AIM, you can switch the vCenter Server.