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Prepare Your Environment for Reservation Manager

Before you set up Reservation Manager, prepare your environment by collecting the following information:

  1. Identify the systems to include in the Reservation Manager inventory for fulfilling reservation requests. Required system information includes the following:
  2. Verify that the required Network Interface Controller device driver is available in one or more of the OS images that will be made available to users.
  3. Identify the operating systems and versions to deploy.
  4. Confirm CA ITCM support for each Windows and Linux operating environment.
  5. Identify the virtual platforms you will support and confirm the corresponding server support. The following are examples of servers and platforms to consider:
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

    Provides imaging functionality for Windows and Linux provisioning to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

    CA ITCM Server - OSIM Imaging

    Provisions computers running Windows or Linux operating systems using the CA ITCM OS installation technology (OSIM), which also contains Software Delivery.

    Solaris JumpStart Server

    Provides imaging functionality for computers running Solaris operating systems. This component is only required if you provision Solaris operating systems.

    Hyper-V SCVMM

    The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) provides functionality to deploy systems using templates and customization profiles for hardware and operating system options. Most sites have either Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vCenter, but not both.

    Note: Reservation Manager supports Hyper-V provisioning of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. Windows 7 and Windows Vista are not supported.

    VMware vCenter Server

    Provides functionality to deploy virtual machines using custom templates and specifications.

    NIM Master Server

    Provides imaging functionality for computers running IBM AIX operating systems. This component is required only if you provision IBM AIX operating systems. Multiple NIM Master Servers are supported. The NIM Master Server must be configured and system resources and resource groups must be created and configured on the NIM Master Server. The NIM Master Server must be registered with CA Server Automation.

    AppLogic Grid Controller

    Provides functionality to deploy and manage AppLogic applications and application templates.

    IBM PowerVM (HMC/IVM)

    Provides management and virtualization capabilities for IBM PowerVM logical partitions on AIX operating systems.

    Software Delivery Adapter

    The Packaging component that installs requested software to the servers allocated to fulfill a reservation request. Software Delivery is required to add software to existing servers.

  6. Identify all users to grant access to Reservation Manager. Confirm the following:
  7. If you are using native CA EEM security, verify that all users are defined in the CA EEM database.