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6 Click Close to exit the wizard.
You are redirected to the vCenter Server Appliance Getting Started page.
The newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance joined the vCenter Single Sign-On domain and site of the
Platform Services Controller instance with which you registered the appliance.
What to do next
You can configure high availability for the vCenter Server Appliance. For information about providing
vCenter Server Appliance high availability, see vSphere Availability.
CLI Deployment of the vCenter Server Appliance and
Platform Services Controller Appliance
You can use the CLI installer to perform a silent deployment of a vCenter Server Appliance or
Platform Services Controller appliance on an ESXi host or vCenter Server instance.
The CLI deployment process includes downloading the vCenter Server Appliance installer on a network
virtual machine or physical server from which you want to perform the deployment, preparing a JSON
configuration file with the deployment information, and running the deployment command.
Important The user name that you use to log in to the machine from which you want to run the CLI
installer, the path to the vCenter Server Appliance installer, the path to your JSON configuration file, and
the string values in your JSON configuration file, including the passwords, must contain only ASCII
characters. Extended ASCII and non-ASCII characters are unsupported.
The vCenter Server Appliance ISO file contains templates of JSON files that contain the minimum
configuration parameters that are required for deploying the vCenter Server Appliance or
Platform Services Controller appliance.
The vCenter Server Appliance ISO file contains templates of JSON files that contain the minimum
configuration parameters that are required for deploying the vCenter Server Appliance or
Platform Services Controller appliance. For information about preparing JSON templates for CLI
deployment, see Prepare Your JSON Configuration File for CLI Deployment.
Important For topologies with external Platform Services Controller instances, you must deploy the
replicating Platform Services Controller instances in a sequence. After the successful deployment of all
Platform Services Controller instances in the domain, you can perform concurrent deployments of multiple
vCenter Server appliances that point to a common external Platform Services Controller instance.
Prepare Your JSON Configuration File for CLI Deployment
Before you run the CLI installer to deploy a vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller
appliance, you must prepare a JSON file with configuration parameters and their values for your
deployment specification.
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