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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Server Installation and Setup
- Contents
- About vCenter Server Installation and Setup
- Introduction to vSphere Installation and Setup
- Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance
- File-Based Backup and Restore of vCenter Server
- Image-Based Backup and Restore of a vCenter Server Environment
- After You Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance
- Log In to vCenter Server by Using the vSphere Client
- Install the VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in
- Repoint vCenter Server to Another vCenter Server in a Different Domain
- Repoint a Single vCenter Server Node to an Existing Domain without a Replication Partner
- Repoint a vCenter Server Node to an Existing Domain with a Replication Partner
- Repoint a vCenter Server Node to a New Domain
- Syntax of the Domain Repoint Command
- Understanding Tagging and Authorization Conflicts
- vCenter Server Domain Repoint License Considerations
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server Installation or Deployment
Procedure
1 Log in to VMware Customer Connect.
2 Navigate to Products and Accounts > All Products.
3 Find VMware vSphere and click View Download Components.
4 Select a VMware vSphere version from the Select Version drop-down.
5 Select a version of VMware vCenter Server and click GO TO DOWNLOADS.
6 Download the vCenter Server appliance ISO image.
7 Confirm that the md5sum is correct by using an MD5 checksum tool.
8 Mount the ISO image to the client machine from which you want to deploy, upgrade, migrate,
or restore the appliance.
Note ISO mounting software that does not allow more than eight directory levels, for
example, MagicISO Maker on Windows, is unsupported.
For Linux OS and Mac OS, Archive Manager is unsupported.
For Mac OS, you can use DiskImageMounter.
For Ubuntu 14.04, you can use Disk Image Mounter.
For SUSE 12 OS, you can use the terminal.
$ sudo mkdir mount_dir
$ sudo mount -o loop VMware-vCSA-all-version_number-build_number.iso mount_dir
Important Due to a security change in MacOS Catalina, you must modify the security settings
on your computer until the vCenter Server deployment completes. If you attempt to run the
installer under MacOS Catalina without modifying the security settings, the vCenter Server
installer reports the error:ovftool cannot be opened because the developer cannot be
verified. For more information, see KB 79416.
What to do next
Open the readme.txt file and review the information about the other files and directories in the
vCenter Server appliance ISO image.
Synchronizing Clocks on the vSphere Network
Verify that all components on the vSphere network have their clocks synchronized. If the clocks on
the physical machines in your vSphere network are not synchronized, SSL certificates and SAML
tokens, which are time-sensitive, might not be recognized as valid in communications between
network machines.
Unsynchronized clocks can result in authentication problems, which can cause the installation to
fail or prevent the vCenter Server vmware-vpxd service from starting.
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