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4 Review the Introduction page to understand the migration process and click Next.
5 Read and accept the license agreement, and click Next.
6 Connect to the target server on which you want to deploy the Platform Services Controller.
Option Steps
You can connect to an
ESXi host on which to
deploy the appliance.
1 Enter the FQDN or IP address of the ESXi host.
2 Enter the HTTPS port of the ESXi host.
3 Enter the user name and password of a user with administrative privileges on the ESXi
host, for example, the root user.
4 Click Next.
5 Verify that the certicate warning displays the SHA1 thumbprint of the SSL certicate
that is installed on the target ESXi host, and click Yes to accept the certicate
thumbprint.
You can connect to a
vCenter Server
instance and browse
the inventory to select
an ESXi host or DRS
cluster on which to
deploy the appliance.
1 Enter the FQDN or IP address of the vCenter Server instance.
2 Enter the HTTPS port of the vCenter Server instance.
3 Enter the user name and password of user with vCenter Single Sign-On administrative
privileges on the vCenter Server instance, for example, the [e-mail]
user.
4 Click Next.
5 Verify that the certicate warning displays the SHA1 thumbprint of the SSL certicate
that is installed on the target vCenter Server instance, and click Yes to accept the
certicate thumbprint.
6 Select the data center or data center folder that contains the ESXi host or DRS cluster on
which you want to deploy the appliance, and click Next
N You must select a data center or data center folder that contains at least one ESXi
host that is not in lockdown or maintenance mode.
7 Select the ESXi host or DRS cluster on which you want to deploy the appliance, and
click Next
7 (Optional) Acknowledge the warning message, if any, by clicking Yes.
8 On the Set up virtual machine page, enter the Platform Services Controller name, set the password for
the root user, and click Next.
The password must contain at least eight characters, a number, uppercase and lowercase leers, and a
special character, for example, an exclamation mark (!), hash key (#), at sign (@), or brackets (()).
9 (Optional) Select the Enable SSH check box to enable SSH connection to the vCenter Server Appliance.
10 On the Connect to source page, enter the details for the source vCenter Single Sign-On instance, and
click Next.
a Enter the IP address or FQDN.
b Enter the user name and password of a user who has administrative privileges on the vCenter
Single Sign-On instance, for example, the [e-mail] user.
c Enter the Migration Assistant Port you received in the Migration Assistant instructions.
11 (Optional) Acknowledge the warning message, if any, by clicking Yes.
12 If the source vCenter Single Sign-On is a member of an Active Directory domain, provide the
credentials to join the target Platform Services Controller to the domain.
13 On the Select appliance size page of the wizard, click Next.
The target Platform Services Controller appliance is deployed with 2 CPUs, 2 GB of memory and 30 GB
of disk space.
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