Preparing our VCM deployment - installing other prerequisites

There are a few other prerequisites that we need to install before we can actually start installing VCM. We will install them in this recipe.

Getting ready

We need Internet access to download the following installers if they are not already available. We need to install them on all the servers in the VCM hierarchy.

We need to install them in the same sequence, or else they won't get installed.

The following links are used in this book; they might change if you change the SQL version, such as those of SQL Native Client and SQL Command Line Utilities:

How to do it...

This is a very simple installation and you just need to click on Next and Finish.

Just follow the sequence and install all the three utilities. You must install them on all the servers, that is, if you are deploying a three-tier VCM installation, these three must be installed on all the three servers.

How it works...

These utilities are used by VCM to communicate with the SQL database. If they are not present on the server, then the foundation checker will fail and you will have to install them and start the installer again.