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Table 3‑6. Information Required for vCenter Server Installation or Upgrade (Continued)
Required Information
Ephemeral ports.
Select Increase the number of available ephemeral ports if your
vCenter Server manages hosts on which you will power on more
than 2000 virtual machines simultaneously. This option prevents
the pool of available ephemeral ports from being exhausted.
Inventory size.
The inventory size of your vCenter Server deployment:
Small (less than 100 hosts or 1000 virtual machines.
n
Medium (100-400 hosts or 1000-4000 virtual machines.
n
Large (more than 400 hosts or 4000 virtual machines.
n
This setting determines the maximum JVM heap settings for
VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices (Tomcat),
Inventory Service, and Profile-Driven Storage Service. You can
adjust this setting after installation if the number of hosts in your
environment changes. See the recommendations in
Requirements for vCenter Server, the vSphere Web Client, vCenter
Inventory Service, and vCenter Single Sign-On,"
User name for
the vCenter
Single Sign-On
administrator
user account.
Password for the
vCenter Single
Sign-On
administrator
user account.
Lookup Service URL.
The Lookup Service URL takes the form
https://SSO_host_FQDN_or_IP:7444/lookupservice/sdk, where 7444
is the default vCenter Single Sign-On HTTPS port number. If you
enter a different port number when you install vCenter Single
Sign-On, use that port number.
Inventory Service URL.
The inventory Service URL takes the form
https://Inventory_Service_host_FQDN_or_IP:10443. 10443 is the
default Inventory Service HTTPS port number. If you enter a
different port number when you install Inventory Service, use that
port number.
Destination folder.
The folder to install vCenter Server in. The installation path cannot
contain the following characters: non-ASCII characters, commas (,),
periods (.), exclamation points (!), pound signs (#), at signs (@), or
percentage signs (%).

Download the vCenter Server Installer

Download the installer for vCenter Server, the vSphere Web Client, and associated vCenter components and
support tools.
Procedure
1 Download the vCenter Server installer from the VMware downloads page at
http://www.vmware.com/support/.
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on page 17.
You must use the same vCenter Single Sign-
On user name and password name when you
install vCenter Single Sign-On, and install or
upgrade Inventory Service, vCenter Server,
and the vSphere Web Client.
Default
"Hardware
administrator
C:\Program
Files\VMware\Infra
structure
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