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8 On the Connect to source page, enter the details of the vCenter Single Sign-On instance or
Platform Services Controller instance and click Next.
a Enter the IP address or FQDN.
b Enter the user name and password of a user who has administrative privileges on the
vCenter Server instance, for example, the administrator@your_domain_name user.
c Enter the Migration Assistant Port you received in the Migration Assistant instructions.
9 (Optional) Accept the warning message, if any, by clicking Yes.
10 On the Select deployment type page, select Platform Services Controller and click Next.
11 From the list of available datastores, select the location where all the virtual machine configuration
files and virtual disks will be stored and, optionally, enable thin provisioning by selecting Enable Thin
Disk Mode.
12 Configure the temporary network for communication between the Platform Services Controller
appliance that you want to upgrade and the new Platform Services Controller appliance, and click
Next.
Option Action
Choose a
network
Select the network to which to connect the new appliance temporarily.
The networks displayed in the drop-down menu depend on the network settings of the target server. If you are
deploying the appliance directly on an ESXi host, non-ephemeral distributed virtual port groups are
unsupported and are not displayed in the drop-down menu.
Important If you want to assign a temporary IPv4 address with DHCP allocation, you must select a network
that is associated with a port group which accepts MAC address changes.
IP Address
family
Select the version for the temporary IP address of the new appliance.
Can be either IPv4 or IPv6.
Network type Select the allocation method for the temporary IP address of the appliance.
n
Static
The wizard prompts you to enter the temporary IP address, subnet mask or prefix length, default gateway,
and DNS servers.
n
DHCP
A DHCP server is used to allocate the temporary IP address. Select this option only if a DHCP server is
available in your environment. Optionally, you can provide a temporary system name (FQDN) if a DDNS
server is available in your environment.
13 On the Ready to complete stage 1 page, review the deployment settings for the target
Platform Services Controller appliance and click Finish to start the OVA deployment process.
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