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. They do not add functions to the ESXi 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 in Solutions Manager 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).

Use the Solution configuration panel of the Home > Administration > vCenter Server Extensions >solution name >Solutions tab to deploy ESX agents on the ESXi hosts that vCenter Server manages.

Select the compute resources on which to deploy the solution from a list in the Manage tab. You can also enable and disable the solution in the Solution Actions panel of the Home > Administration > vCenter Server Extensions >solution name >Solutions tab.

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. You saw how Solutions Manager limits user actions on virtual machines that another solution manages, in this case ESX Agent Manager.