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Table 10. Deployment Parameters
Parameter Default Conditions
esx.host None The IP address or the FQDN of the ESXi host.
esx.datastore None The name of a datastore on which the deployed
vCenter Serve Appliance resides.
The datastore must be accessible from the specified host.
esx.username None The user name of a user that has administrative, or root,
privileges on the ESXi host.
esx.password None The ESXi host user password.
The password must contain 8 to 20 characters, at least
one uppercase and one lowercase letter, one numerical
and one special character.
You can use the command-line installer to set the
password.
deployment.option tiny The deployment option.
The deployment option depends on the deployment
architecture.
 For vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded
Platform Services Controller, the following options
are available:
 tiny
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
10 hosts and 100 virtual machines.
 small
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
100 hosts and 1,000 virtual machines.
 medium
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
400 hosts and 4,000 virtual machines.
 large
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
1,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines.
 For the vCenter Server Appliance, the following
options are available:
 management-tiny
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
10 hosts and 100 virtual machines.
 management-small
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
100 hosts and 1,000 virtual machines.
 management-medium
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
400 hosts and 4,000 virtual machines.
 management-large
Suitable for environments consisting of up to
1,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines.
 For the Platform Services Controller appliance, the
value is infrastructure.
deployment network None The network of the ESXi host on which the vCenter
Server Appliance will be deployed.
When the ESXi host has only one network, the parameter
is optional, and can be ignored.