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9 Select a format in which you want to save the appliance's virtual disk and the storage.
Format Description
Thick provisioned Lazy Zeroed
Creates a virtual disk in a default thick format. The space required for the
virtual disk is allocated when the virtual disk is created. If any data
remains on the physical device, it is not erased during creation, but is
zeroed out on demand later on first write from the virtual machine.
Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed
Supports clustering features such as Fault Tolerance. The space required
for the virtual disk is allocated when the virtual disk is created. If any data
remains on the physical device, it is zeroed out when the virtual disk is
created. It might take much longer to create disks in this format than to
create disks in other formats.
Thin provisioned format
Saves storage space. For the thin disk, you provision as much datastore
space as the disk requires based on the value that you select for the disk
size. The thin disk starts small and at first, uses only as much datastore
space as the disk needs for its initial operations.
10 (Optional) Configure the network settings, and click Next.
By default the Orchestrator Appliance uses DHCP. You can also change this setting manually and
assign a fixed IP address from the appliance Web console.
11 Review the properties of the appliance and set initial passwords for the root user account and for the
vmware user in the Orchestrator Configuration interface.
Your initial passwords must be at least eight characters long, and must contain at least one digit, special
character, and uppercase letter.
IMPORTANT The password for the root account of the Orchestrator Appliance expires after 365 days.
You can increase the expiry time for an account by logging in to the Orchestrator Appliance as root, and
running passwd -x number_of_days name_of_account. If you want to increase the
Orchestrator Appliance root password to infinity, run passwd -x 99999 root.
12 Review the Ready to Complete page and click Finish.
The Orchestrator Appliance is successfully deployed.
Power On the Orchestrator Appliance and Open the Home Page
To use the Orchestrator Appliance, you must first power it on and get an IP address for the virtual
appliance.
Procedure
1 Log in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator.
2 Right-click the Orchestrator Appliance and select Power > Power On.
3 On the Summary tab, view the Orchestrator Appliance IP address.
4 In a Web browser, go to the IP address of your Orchestrator Appliance virtual machine.
http://orchestrator_appliance_ip
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