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Exit Code Description
0 Command ran successfully
1 Runtime error
2 Validation error
3 Template error
Deploy a vCenter Server Appliance by Using the CLI
You can use the CLI installer to perform an unattended deployment of a vCenter Server appliance.
You must run the CLI deployment from a Windows, Linux, or Mac machine that is in the network
on which you want to deploy the appliance.
Prerequisites
n See Prerequisites for Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance.
n Prepare Your JSON Configuration File for CLI Deployment.
n Review Syntax of the CLI Deployment Command.
n Verify that the user name with which you are logged in to your client machine, the path to
the vCenter Server installer, the path to your JSON configuration file, and the string values
in your JSON configuration file contain only ASCII characters. Extended ASCII and non-ASCII
characters are unsupported.
n The Visual C++ redistributable libraries version 14.0 or newer needs to be installed to run
this utility on versions of Windows older than Windows 10. The Microsoft installers for these
libraries are located in the vcsa\ovftool\win32\vcredist directory.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the vcsa-cli-installer subdirectory for your operating system.
n If you are running the deployment on Windows OS, navigate to the vcsa-cli-
installer\win32 directory.
n If you are running the deployment on Linux OS, navigate to the vcsa-cli-installer/
lin64 directory.
n If you are running the deployment on Mac OS, navigate to the vcsa-cli-installer/mac
directory.
2 (Optional) Run a pre-deployment check without deploying the appliance to verify that you
prepared the deployment template correctly.
vcsa-deploy install --precheck-only path_to_the_json_file
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