![]() Next we’ll move onto installing View Composer on vCenter.ġ1. Your System DSN for View Composer is now setup. You can click on Test Data Source to make sure it can establish a successfull connection. You are presented with a summary of all your settings. Keep all the default settings on this screen and click Finish.ĩ. Keep the rest as default and click Next.Ĩ. Click “Change the default database to:” and select the View Composer database you created in step 2. Unless you are using SQL authentication, keep all the authentication default settings on this screen and click Next.ħ. In my lab vcenter2k8 is my server name and SQLEXP_VIM is the instance name (which happens to be the default instance vCenter installs during its setup). Give a name and description to your DSN and select the SQL server you wish to connect to in the syntax of \. We will be crated a new System DSN so click on the System DSN tab and click Add. Open up ODBC Data Source Administrator which is located in Administrative Tools (Location is for Windows 2008, however if you are running Windows 2003 for your vCenter server you will find ODBC Data Source in Start – Control Panael – ODBC Data Sources).ĥ. ![]() Our next step before actually installing View Composer is to setup the System DSN pointing to our new ViewComposer database. As you can see the new Database titled ViewComposer is now setup and ready to use.Ĥ. Click Ok and the database will be created.ģ. Type in a name for the View Composer database. Right click on the Databases folder and click New Database. You can see the database that vCenter is using called VIM_VCDB.Ģ. Open up SQL Server Management Studio Express. First step in setting up View Composer is to create a new database. ![]() Requirements: We have downloaded and installed SQL Management Studio Express for SQL 2005.ġ. We are using the SQL2005 express instance that was installed with vCenter to create our database. Note: The version of VMware View Composer that i’m using in this tutorial is vmware-viewcomposer-2.0.0-210930.exe.
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