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3 Review the Introduction page to understand the deployment process and click Next.
4 Read and accept the license agreement, and click Next.
5 Connect to the target server on which you want to deploy the vCenter Server appliance.
Option Steps
You can connect to an
ESXi host on which to
deploy the appliance.
1 Enter the FQDN or IP address of the ESXi host.
2 Enter the HTTPS port of the ESXi host.
3 Enter the user name and password of a user with administrative privileges on the ESXi
host, for example, the root user.
4 Click Next.
5 Verify that the certificate warning displays the SHA1 thumbprint of the SSL certificate that
is installed on the target ESXi host, and click Yes to accept the certificate thumbprint.
You can connect to
a vCenter Server
instance and browse
the inventory to select
an ESXi host or DRS
cluster on which to
deploy the appliance.
1 Enter the FQDN or IP address of the vCenter Server instance.
2 Enter the HTTPS port of the vCenter Server instance.
3 Enter the user name and password of user with vCenter Single Sign-On
administrative privileges on the vCenter Server instance, for example, the
administrator@ your_domain_name user.
4 Click Next.
5 Verify that the certificate warning displays the SHA1 thumbprint of the SSL certificate that
is installed on the target vCenter Server instance, and click Yes to accept the certificate
thumbprint.
6 Select the data center or data center folder that contains the ESXi host or DRS cluster on
which you want to deploy the appliance, and click Next
Note You must select a data center or data center folder that contains at least one ESXi
host that is not in lockdown or maintenance mode.
7 Select the ESXi host or DRS cluster on which you want to deploy the appliance, and click
Next.
6 On the Set up appliance VM page, enter a name for the vCenter Server appliance, set the
password for the root user, and click Next.
The appliance name must not contain a percent sign (%), backslash (\), or forward slash (/) and
must be no more than 80 characters in length.
The password must contain only lower ASCII characters without spaces, at least eight
characters, a number, uppercase and lowercase letters, and a special character, for example,
an exclamation mark (!), hash key (#), at sign (@), or brackets (()).
7 Select the deployment size for the vCenter Server appliance for your vSphere inventory.
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.
8 Select the storage size for the vCenter Server appliance, and click Next.
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.
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