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Get the Certificate Authority certificate, including all intermediate certificates, and create a
cacert.pem file, or replace the vCenter Server certificates with any of the supported formats.
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Your rui.crt contains only the leaf certificate and the cacert.pem is missing or invalid, but the
cacert.pem is added to the Windows trust store.
Get the Certificate Authority certificate, including all intermediate certificates from the Windows trust
store and create cacert.pem. Use OpenSSL to verify the certificate by running verify -CAfile
cacert.pem rui.crt command.
For more information about vSphere security certificates, see the vSphere Security documentation.
System Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance Installer
You can run the vCenter Server Appliance GUI or CLI installer from a network client machine that is
running on a Windows, Linux, or Mac operating system of a supported version.
To ensure optimal performance of the GUI and CLI installers, use a client machine that meets the
minimum hardware requirements.
Table 4‑3. System Requirements for the GUI and CLI Installers
Operating System Supported Versions Minimum Hardware Configuration for Optimal Performance
Windows
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Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10
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Windows 2012 x64 bit
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Windows 2012 R2
x64 bit
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Windows 2016 x64 bit
4 GB RAM, 2 CPU having 4 cores with 2.3 GHz, 32 GB hard disk, 1 NIC
Linux
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SUSE 12
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Ubuntu 14.04
4 GB RAM, 1 CPU having 2 cores with 2.3 GHz, 16 GB hard disk, 1 NIC
Note The CLI installer requires 64-bit OS.
Mac
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macOS v10.9, 10,10,
10.11
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macOS Sierra
8 GB RAM, 1 CPU having 4 cores with 2.4 GHz, 150 GB hard disk, 1 NIC
Note For client machines that run on Mac 10.11, concurrent GUI deployments of multiple appliances are
unsupported. You must deploy the appliances in a sequence.
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