Specifications

9 Select the account for the vCenter Service to run in.

Option Description

SYSTEM Account

Select the Use SYSTEM account checkbox, type the fully qualified domain

name of the vCenter Server host, and click Next. You cannot use the

SYSTEM account if you are using the bundled database or SQL Server with

Windows authentication.

User-specified account

Deselect the Use SYSTEM account checkbox, type the account password

and the fully qualified domain name of the vCenter Server host and click

Next.

10 Select a folder to install vCenter Inventory Service.

NOTE The folder size might grow large.

11 Enter port numbers to connect to vCenter Server.

12 Type the port numbers for Inventory Service or accept the port numbers shown in the Configure Ports

for Inventory Service window.

13 Select the size of your vCenter Server inventory to allocate memory for several Java services that are

used by vCenter Server.

This setting determines the maximum JVM heap settings for VMware VirtualCenter Management

Webservices (Tomcat), Inventory Service, and Profile-Driven Storage Service. You can adjust this

setting after installation if the number of hosts in your environment changes. See the recommendations

in “vCenter Server and vSphere Client Hardware Requirements,” on page 17.

14 (Optional) In the Ready to Install the Program window, select Select to bump up the ephemeral port

value.

This option increases the number of available ephemeral ports. If your vCenter Server manages hosts

on which you will power on more than 2000 virtual machines simultaneously, this option prevents the

pool of available ephemeral ports from being exhausted.

What to do next

Upgrade the vSphere Client to version 5.0. This step prevents compatibility problems that might interfere

with the proper operation of the vSphere Client. See “Upgrade the vSphere Client,” on page 62. Review

the topics in “After You Upgrade vCenter Server,” on page 61 for other postupgrade actions you might

want to take.

Upgrade to vCenter Server on a Different Machine and Upgrade the

Database

When you upgrade to vCenter Server, you can migrate vCenter Server to a new machine. One reason for

doing this is to move from a 32-bit machine to a 64-bit machine.

You can also use the data migration tool to migrate a SQL Server Express database that is installed by the

vCenter Server installer on the same machine as vCenter Server. If you use a different database that is

installed on the vCenter Server machine, you must back up and move the database manually to the new

machine. If the database is installed on a different machine from vCenter Server, you can leave the database

in place and create a DSN on the destination machine to connect to it.

The VirtualCenter or vCenter Server configuration settings that you can migrate with the tool include:

LDAP data.

Port settings for the HTTP, HTTPS, heartbeat, Web services, LDAP, and LDAP SSL ports.

Certificates stored in the SSL folder.

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