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vSphere Installation and Setup
Table 3‑5. Information Required for vCenter Inventory Service Installation or Upgrade (Continued)
Required Information
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.
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.
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.
Table 3‑6. Information Required for vCenter Server Installation or Upgrade
Required Information
Setup Language.
This selection controls the language only for the installer.
vCenter Server license key.
If you omit the license key, vCenter Server is installed in
evaluation mode. After you install vCenter Server, you can enter
the vCenter Server license in the vSphere Web Client.
Data source name (DSN).
Required if you use an existing database. Not required if you are
using the bundled Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express database.
Leading and trailing spaces are not supported. Remove spaces
from the beginning or end of the DSN.
Database user
name.
Database
password.
JDBC URL for database.
Required if you use an existing database. The vCenter Server
installer should generate and validate the JDBC URL for the
vCenter Server database. If the installer fails to connect to the
database by using the generated JDBC URL, the installer prompts
you to specify the JDBC URL.
The format of the JDBC URL depends on the database that you are
using. See "JDBC URL Formats for the vCenter Server Database,"
on page 62.v
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on page 17.
Required to use an existing database. Not
required if you are using the bundled
database. Non-ASCII characters are not
supported.
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