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To start the installation click on Install.

You don’t have to change the destination if you don’t want to.

I added an 80GB drive to the VM and changed the destination folder to the secondary drive.

Neither of my drives on the VUM VM have have 120GB or more free space and thus the installer shows this warning message.

Enter the IP or name of your vCenter server, I’ve used the FQDN name in this case.

Since we’ve opted to use a standalone SQL server for this install, select “Use an existing supported database” and use the previously configured DSN from the drop down (VUM).

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VUM needs to register with vCenter, so enter the vCenter IP or Name along with any username and password that has administrator access on vCenter.

I want VUM to download updates right away and so I left the default “Download updates from default sources immediately after installation” checked.

Start the install wizard by clicking Next.

Select the language of your choice and click on Ok.

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Mount the ISO image to your VM which should start the VMware vCenter Installer, select “ vSphere Update Manager” and click on Next.Finish the configuration and now we’re ready to actually install VUM!įor this install I used the latest ISO currently available at the time of writing this (VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.5.0-1750795-20140201-update01.iso).From the default database drop down menu select the name of your VUM database and click Next.Leave the default “ with Integrated Windows Authentication” selected and click on Next.Give the new data source a name, description and lastly enter the name of your SQL database server and click Next.From the list of data sources, select SQL Server Native Client and click on Next.Click on the System DSN tab and then click on Add.

Open the 32-bit ODBC Manager which is located here:.

Next, before I could get started configure the 32-bit DSM connection I first had to install the SQL Server Native Client which I quickly installed by mounting the SQL Server ISO to my new VUM virtual machine and went to the folder: 1033_enu_lp\圆4\setup\圆4 and ran the file: sqlncli.msi. Creating the VUM 32-bit DSNįirst thing’s first, make sure your VUM service account is a local admin on your new Server 2012 virtual machine. The only thing you may want to change is set the database recovery from “Full” to “Simple”, otherwise that’s it on the database server.

That should create the databases needed with the correct permissions. * Change login name to VUM service account */ĮXEC('CREATE LOGIN FROM WINDOWS')ĮXEC sp_grantdbaccess 'domain\service-account-name'ĮXEC sp_addrolemember db_owner, 'domain\service-account-name'ĮXEC('ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::"VUM" TO ') * Creates VMware Update Manager database. To automate the creation of the database I used ran the following script on the database server, be sure to replace “domain\service-account-name” with your own domain and service account username. Since we already have our vCenter SQL database on it’s on VM (not installed on the vCenter server), I’m going to use the same database server to also run the VMware Update Manager database as well.

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Since we was going to have to rebuild Update Manager I opted to move from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012, in the steps below I’ll document step by step how to install VMware Update Manager 5.5 on Server 2012 and a separate database.Ĭreating the VMware Update Manager database Recently we had some pretty serious array issues which corrupted the VUM database taking Update Manager down. It’s a wonderful tool and makes upgrading and patching so much easier and allows you to quickly see how compliant/up-to-date your environment is with the built in pie graph.

If you don’t already know, VMware Update Manager (aka, VUM) is a tool which allows you to easily automate patching and upgrading VMware hosts as well as virtual machine hardware and VMware tools.