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Deploy ESX Agents from OVF Using the EAM Sample Solution

The EAM Sample Solution uses an OVF template to deploy ESX agent virtual machines from an application server onto
hosts.
  • Verify that you have set up and started the EAM Sample Solution in an application server.
  • Verify that you have configured the virtual infrastructure on which to deploy ESX agents.
    If you have not configured the ESX agent network and datastore settings on the host, ESX Agent Manager sets the status to red and ESX agents do not deploy. See Configure the Virtual Infrastructure for ESX Agent Deployment.
The EAM Sample Solution enables an ESX agent, creates a resource pool, creates a virtual machine folder, deploys an OVF template, and powers on the virtual machine.
The ESX agents that the EAM Sample Solution deploys from OVF are empty. The ESX agents do not add functions to the
server on which you deploy them. The EAM Sample Solution demonstrates how a solution deploys ESX agents on compute resources. A solution deploys agents on a standalone host or on a cluster of hosts. If you deploy the EAM Sample Solution on a cluster of hosts, then it deploys ESX agents on all the hosts in the cluster.
The EAM Sample Solution displays information about the virtual machines that it creates, and how you can monitor and manage ESX agents in ESX Agent Manager. The EAM Sample Solution also demonstrates how ESX Agent Manager integrates with vSphere High Availability (HA), maintenance mode, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and Distributed Power Management (DPM).
  1. Click
    Menu
     in the navigation bar of the
    , and then click
    Administration
    .
  2. Click
    vCenter Server Extensions
    .
  3. Click
    EAM Sample Solution
     in the list of running
    solutions.
  4. From the
    Summary
     tab, click the link from the Solutions portlet.
    The EAM Sample Solution Configuration page opens in a new window.
  5. In the
    Compute resources
     panel, select the host name of the ESXi host or cluster on which to deploy ESX agents and click
    Update Configuration
    .
    The
    Recent Tasks
     view at the bottom of the
    shows the progress of the EAM Sample Solution.
  6. Click
    Menu
     in the navigation bar of the
    and then click
    Hosts and Clusters
    .
    The EAM Sample Solution created a resource pool named
    ESX Agents
     and an ESX agent virtual machine named
    Sample Service (1)
     on the host that you selected. The virtual machine has an icon in the inventory that denotes that it is an ESX agent.
  7. Click the
    Sample Service (1)
     virtual machine icon, then click the
    Summary
     tab.
    added a panel labeled
    Managed by
     to the
    Summary
     tab, which shows that ESX Agent Manager manages this ESX agent virtual machine.
  8. If you deployed the EAM Sample Solution on a cluster of hosts, put one of the hosts into maintenance mode.
    ESX Agent Manager powers off the ESX agent that is running on that host.
  9. If you deployed the EAM Sample Solution on a cluster of hosts and you have configured DRS on the cluster, add a host to the cluster.
    1. From
      Agent VM Settings
      , select a datastore and network on the new host.
    ESX Agent Manager deploys an ESX agent on the new host and prevents any other virtual machines from migrating to the host until the ESX agent virtual machine is running.
You used the EAM Sample Solution to deploy an ESX agent virtual machine from an OVF template that the solution defines. The EAM Sample Solution registered that ESX agent with ESX Agent Manager.
Use EAM Sample Solution and ESX Agent Manager to monitor and manage the running ESX agent virtual machine.

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