VMware vCenter Configuration Manager v5.7.2-NEWiSO



VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™ (VCM)-a key part of the VMware vCenter™ Operations Manager™ suite-delivers capabilities fundamental to ensuring that virtualized and cloud computing environments are properly configured to meet operational, security and compliance requirements.


VCM is a full-featured configuration-management solution that automates configuration management across virtual, physical and cloud environments. Enterprises can use VCM to continuously audit the configurations of VMware infrastructure (including VMware ESX, ESXi™, vCenter, vCloud Director™ and vShield™) as well as Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems. Configuration compliance can be maintained against internal standards, security best practices, vendor hardening guidelines and regulatory mandates.

Key Benefits
Improve operational effectiveness by continuously auditing configurations of the VMware infrastructure and Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems.
Speed time to service restoration by correlating configuration changes tracked within VCM with performance and capacity issues identified by VMware vCenter Operations Manager™.
Accelerate the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing for business-critical applications by addressing security and compliance concerns.
Reduce potential security threats through a unified approach to configuration management across physical and virtual infrastructure.
Drive down the effort and cost of configuration compliance through the use of an automated solution.
What Is VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
VCM automates critical configuration and compliance management tasks-including configuration data collection, configuration change execution, configuration reporting, change auditing, compliance assessment, patch management, operating system (OS) provisioning and software package distribution. In many cases VCM supports automated enforcement and remediation of noncompliant configurations.

How Is VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Used
vCenter Configuration Manager ensures the integrity of your virtualized datacenter and lowers IT audit costs by providing automated compliance assessments against VMware and Microsoft security best practice guides, industry best practices and your own policies.

Gain configuration insight and agility and avoid configuration drift by automating discovery, collection, change detection and policy violation identification for more than 80,000 configuration settings.
Maintain continuous compliance with out-of-the-box templates that contain policy-driven rules, reports and dashboards that ensure security, regulatory and operational compliance.
Perform physical and virtual system provisioning via a centralized mechanism. With Configuration Manager, you can deploy vSphere to 'bare metal' and then load operating systems into virtual machine containers or to 'bare metal' systems.
Automate software provisioning and integrate it into compliance enforcement processes. Configuration Manager allows users to easily create software packages, push packages to systems and guests, automatically find missing software (e.g., antivirus), and remediate to install required software to non-compliant systems. This same compliance methodology can also be used to remove unwarranted or unsafe software from your systems (e.g., Kazaa).
How Does vCenter Configuration Center Work
vCenter Configuration Manager is the only end-to-end configuration management solution that combines deep server and workstation configuration management and provisioning with out-of-the-box compliance intelligence, across physical and virtual environments. It gives you the policy-driven automation and control required to deliver IT as a service.

Deep collection and visibility - Discover configurations across the enterprise with scalable, secure data collection, and track changes to them automatically.
Compliance policy intelligence - Ensure compliance with various industry and regulatory standards and requirements on a continuous basis.
Remediation and patch management - Detect and fix configuration problems and security vulnerabilities automatically across multiple systems. Assess the status of a patch, deploy it and verify it was installed correctly.
Simplify provisioning - Dramatically simplify the provisioning of vSphere, operating systems and software packages and provision to both virtual and physical systems.
Multiplatform support - Configuration Manager supports vSphere, Windows desktops and servers, Linux and Mac OS X desktops and servers, and UNIX servers.
Automated and Continuous Configuration and Compliance Management
Get the capabilities you need to make sure your virtualized and cloud computing environments are properly configured to meet operational, security and compliance requirements. VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, a key part of the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, automates configuration management across virtual, physical and cloud environments. Enterprises can use vCenter Configuration Manager to continuously audit the configurations of VMware Infrastructure (including VMware ESX, ESXi, vCenter, vCloud Director and VMware vCloud Networking and Security) as well as Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems. Easily maintain configuration compliance against internal standards, security best practices, vendor hardening guidelines and regulatory mandates.

With vCenter Configuration Manager you can:
Drive down the effort and cost of maintaining configuration compliance with automated auditing and remediation
Speed time to service restoration by correlating configuration changes tracked within VCM with performance and capacity issues
Accelerate the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing for business-critical applications by addressing security and compliance concerns
Reduce potential security threats through a unified approach to configuration management across physical and virtual infrastructure
Automated Configuration and Compliance Management
Automated Configuration and Compliance Management
vCenter Configuration Manager automates critical configuration and compliance management tasks including configuration data collection, configuration change execution, configuration reporting, change auditing, compliance assessment, patch management, OS provisioning and software package distribution. vCenter Configuration Manager supports configuration management across virtual and physical servers, across VMware Infrastructure and across multiple operations systems including Windows, Linux and Windows. In many cases vCenter Configuration Manager supports automated enforcement and remediation of non compliant configurations.

Continuous Compliance with Out-of-the-Box Toolkits
vCenter Configuration Manager includes built-in, out-of-the-box compliance toolkits developed by VMware's Center for Policy and Compliance. Toolkits translate a broad range of standards and best practices into compliance templates that can be used to assess configuration compliance within your environment. Toolkits also include reports and dashboards to support unified compliance reporting. Out-of-the-box toolkits include (but are not limited to):

Security best practices developed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Center for Internet Security (CIS)
Vendor best practices such as VMware's and Microsoft's Hardening Guidelines
Industry and regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Federal information Security Act (FISMA)
Organizations can also use vCenter Configuration Manager to build their own internal IT standards to drive best practices in their environments. These standards can be created by leveraging any of the toolkits above as a starting point or by creating a new company specific IT standards toolkit.

Fundamental to Clouds Built on VMware Technology
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager is tightly integrated with vSphere and delivers fundamental capabilities that support hardening the VMware Infrastructure. This includes configuration compliance assessment (and in many cases automated remediation) for VMware ESX, ESXi, vCenter, vCloud Director and VMware vCloud Networking and Security. vCenter Configuration Manager also addresses configuration management for virtualization specific constructs such as compliance assessment and patching for VM templates and offline VMs.

Install
1. unpack
2. RTFM
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcenter-configuration-manager-57-installation-guide.pdf

3. understanding the basics of installation
4. burn / mount / install

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