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13 Wait for the OVA deployment to finish, and click Continue to proceed with stage 2 of the deployment
process to set up and start the services of the newly deployed appliance.
Note If you exit the wizard by clicking Close, you must log in to the vCenter Server Appliance
Management Interface to set up and start the services.
The newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller is running
on the target server but the services are not started.
Stage 2 - Set up the Newly Deployed vCenter Server Appliance with an
Embedded Platform Services Controller
When the OVA deployment finishes, you are redirected to stage 2 of the deployment process to set up
and start the services of the newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded
Platform Services Controller.
Procedure
1 Review the introduction to stage 2 of the deployment process and click Next.
2 Configure the time settings in the appliance, optionally enable remote SSH access to the appliance,
and click Next.
Option Description
Synchronize time with the ESXi host Enables periodic time synchronization, and VMware Tools sets the time of the
guest operating system to be the same as the time of the ESXi host.
Synchronize time with NTP servers Uses a Network Time Protocol server for synchronizing the time. If you select this
option, you must enter the names or IP addresses of the NTP servers separated
by commas.
3 On the SSO configuration page, create the vCenter Single Sign-On domain, and click Next.
a Enter the domain name, for example, vsphere.local
b Set the password for the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator account.
This is the password for the user administrator@your_domain_name.
After the deployment, you can log in to vCenter Single Sign-On and to vCenter Server as
administrator@your_domain_name.
c Enter the site name for vCenter Single Sign-On
The site name must contain alphanumeric characters. Choose your own name for the vCenter
Single Sign-On site. You cannot change the name after installation.
Extended ASCII or non-ASCII characters are unsupported in site names. Your site name must
include alphanumeric characters and a comma (,), period (.), question mark (?), dash (-),
underscore (_), plus sign (+) or equals sign (=).
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