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7 Follow the prompts until you are asked to select the disk format.
Option Description
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed
Creates a virtual disk in a default thick format.
Thick Provision Eager Zeroed
Creates a type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features such
as Fault Tolerance. Thick provisioned eager-zeroed format can improve
performance depending on the underlying storage subsystem.
Select the thick provisioned eager-zero option when possible.
Thin Provision
Creates a disk in thin format. Use this format to save storage space.
Snapshots can negatively aect the performance of a virtual machine and typically result in a 25–30
percent degradation for the vRealize Operations Manager workload. Do not use snapshots.
8 Click Next.
9 From the drop-down menu, select a Destination Network, for example, Network 1 = TEST, and click
Next.
10 In Properties, under Application, Timezone Seing, leave the default of UTC or select a time zone.
The preferred approach is to standardize on UTC. Alternatively, congure all nodes to the same time
zone.
11 (Optional) Select the option for IPv6.
12 Under Networking Properties, leave the entries blank for DHCP, or ll in the default gateway, domain
name server, static IP address, and network mask values.
The master node and replica node require a static IP. A data node or remote collector node may use
DHCP or static IP.
13 Click Next.
14 Review the seings and click Finish.
15 If you are creating a multiple-node vRealize Operations Manager cluster, repeat Step 1 through Step 14
to deploy each node.
What to do next
Use a Web browser client to congure a newly added node as the vRealize Operations Manager master
node, a data node, a high availability master replica node, or a remote collector node. The master node is
required rst.
C For security, do not access vRealize Operations Manager from untrusted or unpatched clients, or
from clients using browser extensions.
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