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Command-Line Deployment and Upgrade of VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1
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password - Password of the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user
account, administrator@your_domain_name.
If you are deploying a vCenter Server Appliance with an
embedded Platform Services Controller or the first Platform
Services Controller instance of your identity domain, you must set
the password for the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user
account.
The password must adhere to the following requirements:
 At least 8 characters
 No more than 20 characters
 At least one uppercase character
 At least one lowercase character
 At least one number
 At least one special character (for example, ’!’, ’(’, or ’@’)
 Only visible lower-ASCII characters. Cannot use spaces
and non-printing control characters such as BEL, Nul, and
so on.
If you are deploying a vCenter Server Appliance with an external
Platform Services Controller, you must provide the password of
the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user account of the
Platform Services Controller with which you want to register the
appliance.
If you are deploying a replicating Platform Services Controller,
you must provide the password of the vCenter Single Sign-On
administrator user account of the Platform Services Controller
with which you want to join the appliance.
If you are upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 Update 3, you
must provide the password of the vCenter Single Sign-On
administrator user account.
NOTE Do not use for upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance 5.5,
because the new vCenter Server Appliance uses the password of
the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user account of the old
vCenter Server Appliance.
domain-name - The vCenter Single Sign-On domain name, for example,
vsphere.local.
If you are deploying a vCenter Server Appliance with an
embedded Platform Services Controller or the first Platform
Services Controller instance of your identity domain, you must set
the vCenter Single Sign-On domain name.
If you are deploying a vCenter Server Appliance with an external
Platform Services Controller, you must provide the vCenter Single
Sign-On domain name of the Platform Services Controller with
which you want to register the appliance.
If you are deploying a replicating Platform Services Controller,
you must provide the vCenter Single Sign-On domain name of the
Platform Services Controller with which you want to join the
appliance.
first-instance - A Boolean value.
If true, the deployment creates a new vCenter Single Sign-On
domain.
Required if you are deploying a replicating Platform Services
Controller, when you must use the false value.
Table 8. List of the Configuration Parameters in the target.vcsa Section
Parameter Default Description