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Table 4‑4. Information Required for Migrating vCenter Server from Windows to
vCenter Server Appliance (Continued)
Required Information Default Value Your Entry
For medium deployment size,
deploys the appliance with 1805 GB
of storage.
For large deployment size, deploys
the appliance with 1870 GB of
storage.
For x-large deployment size, deploys
the appliance with 1910 GB of
storage.
Name of the datastore on which the new
version of the vCenter Server Appliance
is deployed
Enable or disable thin disk mode. Disabled by default
Join or do not participate in the VMware
Customer Experience Improvement
Program (CEIP).
For information about the CEIP, see the
Configuring Customer Experience
Improvement Program section in vCenter
Server and Host Management.
Join the CEIP
Temporary network for
communication
between the source
vCenter Server and the
target
vCenter Server
Appliance
IP address version IPv4
IP address allocation method DHCP
Static assignment
settings
Network address
Subnet mask
Network gateway
Network DNS servers, separated with
commas
Enable or disable SSH Disabled by default
GUI Migration of vCenter Server with an Embedded
vCenter Single Sign-On or Platform Services Controller to
an Appliance
You can use the GUI method to migrate a vCenter Server instance with an embedded
Platform Services Controller to a vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded
Platform Services Controller appliance.
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