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7 Connect to the target server on which you want to deploy the new Platform Services Controller
appliance.
Option Steps
You can connect to an
ESXi host on which to
deploy the new
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 Accept the certificate warning, if any, by clicking Yes.
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 new
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 a vCenter Single Sign-On user with administrative
privileges on the vCenter Server instance, for example, the
administrator@your_domain_name user.
4 Click Next.
5 Accept the certificate warning, if any, by clicking Yes.
6 Select the data center or data center folder that contains the ESXi host or DRS cluster on
which you want to deploy the new appliance, and click Next
Note 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 new appliance, and click
Next.
8 On the Set up target appliance VM page, enter a name for the new Platform Services Controller
appliance, set the password for the root user, and click Next.
The name of the new Platform Services Controller appliance must be different from the name of the
source appliance. The appliance name must not contain a percent sign (%), backslash (\), or forward
slash (/) and must be no more than 80 characters in length.
The password must contain only lower ASCII characters without spaces, at least eight characters, a
number, uppercase and lowercase letters, and a special character, for example, an exclamation mark
(!), hash key (#), at sign (@), or brackets (()).
Note The root password of the old appliance is not transferred to the new upgraded appliance.
9 From the list of available datastores, select the location where all the virtual machine configuration
files and virtual disks will be stored and, optionally, enable thin provisioning by selecting Enable Thin
Disk Mode. NFS datastores are thin provisioned by default.
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