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12 On the Ready to complete stage 1 page, review the deployment settings for the

vCenter Server Appliance and click Finish to start the OVA deployment process.

13 Wait for the OVA deployment to finish, and click Continue to proceed with stage 2 of the deployment

process to set up and start the services of the newly deployed appliance.

Note If you exit the wizard by clicking Close, you must log in to the vCenter Server Appliance

Management Interface to set up and start the services.

The newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance with an external Platform Services Controller is running on

the target server but the services are not started.

Stage 2 - Set up the Newly Deployed vCenter Server Appliance With an

External Platform Services Controller

When the OVA deployment finishes, you are redirected to stage 2 of the deployment process to set up

and start the services of the newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance with an external

Platform Services Controller.

Procedure

1 Review the introduction to stage 2 of the deployment process and click Next.

2 Configure the time settings in the appliance, optionally enable remote SSH access to the appliance,

and click Next.

Option Description

Synchronize time with the ESXi host Enables periodic time synchronization, and VMware Tools sets the time of the

guest operating system to be the same as the time of the ESXi host.

Synchronize time with NTP servers Uses a Network Time Protocol server for synchronizing the time. If you select this

option, you must enter the names or IP addresses of the NTP servers separated

by commas.

3 Provide the FQDN or IP address of the Platform Services Controller instance with which you want to

and administrator password, and click Next.

If the Platform Services Controller instance is a Windows installation, provide the system name of the

host machine on which the Platform Services Controller is running.

4 On the Ready to complete page, review the configuration settings for the vCenter Server Appliance,

click Finish, and click OK to complete stage 2 of the deployment process and set up the appliance.

5 (Optional) After the initial setup finishes, enter the URL from the browser with

https://vcenter_server_appliance_fqdn/ui or https://vcenter_server_appliance_fqdn/vsphere-

client to go to the vSphere Web Client and log in to the vCenter Server instance in the

vCenter Server Appliance, or click the https://vcenter_server_appliance_fqdn:443 to go the

vCenter Server Appliance Getting Started page.

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