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Table 2-3. Required Information During Stage 1 of the GUI Deployment Process (continued)
Required Information Default Your Entry
Name of the network to which to connect the
appliance
Note The installer displays a drop-down menu
with networks that depend on the network
settings of your target server. If you are deploying
the appliance directly on an ESXi host, non-
ephemeral distributed virtual port groups are not
supported and are not displayed in the drop-down
menu.
The network must be accessible from the client
machine from which you perform the deployment.
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IP version for the appliance address
Can be either IPv4 or IPv6.
IPv4
IP assignment for the appliance address
Can be either static or DHCP.
static
FQDN
For a static IP assignment
vCenter Server uses FQDN or IP address as the
system name.
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IP address -
For IPv4 networks, you can use either a subnet
mask or a network prefix. Subnet mask uses a dot
decimal notation (for example, 255.255.255.0). An
IPv4 network prefix is an integer between 0 and
32.
For IPv6 networks, you must use a network prefix.
An IPv6 network prefix is an integer between 0
and 128 .
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Default gateway -
DNS servers separated by commas -
System name (FQDN)
Only if you use DHCP with IPv4 and have a
Dynamic DNS (DDNS) server available in your
environment.
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