Before the EAM Sample Solution can deploy ESX agents on ESXi hosts, you must configure the virtual infrastructure so that vSphere can assign networks and datastores to the ESX agent virtual machines.

You must set the ESX Agent Manager properties on a vCenter Server system to configure the network and datastore on which to deploy ESX agent virtual machines on this vCenter Server instance.

Procedure

  1. Open the vSphere Client and click Menu > Hosts and Clusters.
  2. Select a host where you want to deploy ESX agent virtual machines.
  3. Click the Configure tab to display configuration information for the host.
  4. Select Agent VM Settings and click Edit in the top right corner.
  5. From the Datastore drop-down menu, select a datastore in which to deploy the ESX agent virtual machines.
  6. From the Network drop-down menu, select a network to connect the ESX agents.
  7. Click OK.

Results

You configured the network and datastore for the ESXi host where you want to deploy ESX agent virtual machines. You configured the IP address management so that vCenter Server can allocate IP addresses to ESX agent virtual machines.