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Table 2‑7. Required Information During Stage 1 of the GUI Deployment Process (Continued)
Required for Deployment of Required Information Default Your Entry
For medium deployment size,
deploys the appliance with 1905
GB of storage.
For large deployment size, deploys
the appliance with 1970 GB of
storage.
For x-large deployment size,
deploys the appliance with 2110
GB of storage.
All deployment types Name of the datastore on which you
want to store the configuration files
and virtual disks of the appliance
Note The installer displays a list of
datastores that are accessible from
your target server.
-
Enable or disable Thin Disk Mode Disabled
All deployment types Name of the network to which to
connect the appliance
Note The installer displays a drop-
down menu with networks that depend
on the network settings of your target
server. If you are deploying the
appliance directly on an ESXi host,
non-ephemeral distributed virtual port
groups are not supported and are not
displayed in the drop-down menu.
The network must be accessible from
the client machine from which you
perform the deployment.
-
IP version for the appliance address
Can be either IPv4 or IPv6.
IPv4
IP assignment for the appliance
address
Can be either static or DHCP.
static
All deployment types
Only if you use a static
assignment
FQDN
vCenter Server uses FQDN or IP
address as the system name.
-
IP address -
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