Background:
I have a lab environment where my goal is to build a master managment system just like I tell our customers to do. One server, not attached to SAN. Holding all the tools nessisary to monitor, manage, repair, notify, and restore the IT environment. The focus would be for a virtulization company where they have purchased a set of bladcenters and SAN switches / controllers and be able to guarentee that they get full error notification.
Issue:
IBM DS4xxx SAN requires the use of RSM (remote services monitor) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246363.pdf
RSM is the tool which installs and is the data collection tool for IBM SAN disk. Issue is that it runs on Linux only.
I can install all my tools on the managment / VCMS server BUT these require Windows (as do many of the LAN tools such as CISCO netowrk assistant, Brocade's monitor tool etc..).
A solution I came up with would be to host the Linux RSM system as a VM on the Master Monitor system..... BUT... when I launch the VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.exe installer it runs for a while then dies. No error in Event Viewer. I assume this has something to do with the fact that VCMS runs an HTTP server as does the new VMWare Server, but is their not a way I can tell VMWare Server to move it's TCP port as it will likly only be running ONE VM? Or... I am barking up wrong tree.
Ideas?