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Table 3‑11. Configuration Parameters in the new_vcsa Section, esxi Subsection (Continued)
Name Type Description
deployment_network
string The name of the network to which to connect the new appliance.
The network must be part of the target ESXi host or vCenter Server Appliance
instance (as identified by the managing_esxi_or_vc configuration parameter)
network configuration.
Note The network must be accessible from the source ESXi host or
vCenter Server Appliance instance (as identified by the managing_esxi_or_vc
configuration parameter) on which resides the appliance that you want to upgrade.
The network must be also accessible from the client machine from which you are
performing the upgrade.
Ignored if the target ESXi host has only one network.
datastore
string The name of the datastore on which to store the virtual machine configuration files and
virtual disks of the new appliance.
The datastore must be available to the target ESXi host.
Note The datastore must have at least 25 GB of free space.
port
integer The HTTPS reverse proxy port of the target ESXi host.
The default port is 443. Use only if the target ESXi host uses a custom HTTPS reverse
proxy port.
ssl_certificate_verific
ation
string The CLI verifies that a server's security certificate is signed by a Certificate Authority
(CA), and establishes a secure connection. If the certificate is self-signed, the CLI will
stop the upgrade unless you specify one of the following SSL certificate configuration
options:
Specify the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) certificate thumbprint. A certificate
thumbprint is a hexadecimal string that uniquely identifies a certificate. The thumbprint
is calculated from the content of the certificate using a thumbprint algorithm.
"thumbprint": "certificate SHA-1 thumbprint"
Set verification_mode to NONE.
"verification_mode": "NONE"
If you are connecting to a server with a self-signed certificate, and fail to either specify
the SHA-1 certificate thumbprint or set the verification mode to NONE, the CLI will
display the server's self-signed cert's thumbprint, and prompt you to accept or reject
the certificate thumbprint.
You may also specify that the CLI ignore the self-signed using the vcsa-deploy
upgrade command parameter --no-ssl-certificate-validation. See Syntax of
the CLI Upgrade Command .
Table 3‑12. Configuration Parameters in the new_vcsa Section, vc Subsection
Name Type Description
hostname
string The IP address or FQDN of the target vCenter Server instance on which you want
deploy the new appliance.
username
string vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user name on the target vCenter Server
instance, for example, [e-mail].
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