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Table 2-3. Required Information During Stage 1 of the GUI Deployment Process (continued)
Required Information Default Your Entry
VM name for the appliance
n Must not contain a percent sign (%), backslash
(\), or forward slash (/)
n Must be no more than 80 characters in length
vCenter Server
Password for the root user of the appliance
operating system
n Must contain only lower ASCII characters
without spaces.
n Must be at least 8 characters, but no more
than 20 characters in length
n Must contain at least one uppercase letter
n Must contain at least one lowercase letter
n Must contain at least one number
n Must contain at least one special character, for
example, a dollar sign ($), hash key (#), at sign
(@), period (.), or exclamation mark (!)
-
Deployment size of the vCenter Server appliance
for your vSphere environment. See Hardware
Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance
for information about the deployment sizes you
can select. The option that you select determines
the number of CPUs and the amount of memory
for the appliance.
Tiny
Storage size of the vCenter Server appliance for
your vSphere environment. The required storage
depends not only on the size of the vSphere
environment, but also on the disk provisioning
mode. See Storage Requirements for the vCenter
Server Appliance.
Increase the default storage size if you want larger
volume for SEAT data (stats, events, alarms, and
tasks).
Default
Name of the datastore on which you want to
store the configuration files and virtual disks of the
appliance
Note The installer displays a list of datastores that
are accessible from your target server.
-
Enable or disable Thin Disk Mode Disabled
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