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vSphere Installation and Setup
The Fully Qualified Domain Name field displays the FQDN of the system that you are installing
vCenter Server on. The vCenter Server installer checks that the FQDN is resolvable. If not, a warning
message appears when you click Next. Change the entry to a resolvable FQDN. You must enter the
FQDN, not the IP address.
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For each component that you install, accept the default port numbers, or if another service is using the
defaults, enter alternative ports.
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(Optional) Select Increase the number of available ephemeral ports.
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Select the size of your vCenter Server inventory to allocate memory for several Java services that are
used by vCenter Server.
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 the topic vCenter Server Hardware Requirements.
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Click Install.
Multiple progress bars appear during the installation of the selected components.
The vCenter Simple Install is complete.
What to do next
See
Chapter 5, "After You Install vCenter Server,"
Use Custom Install to Install vCenter Server and Required
Components
You can install vCenter Server and other vCenter components separately to customize the location and
configuration of each component.
For most basic vCenter Single Sign-On deployments, if all components are on the same host machine, you
can install vCenter Single Sign-On, the vSphere Web Client, Inventory Service, and vCenter Server together
on a single host machine using the vCenter Server Simple Install option.
See
"Install vCenter Single Sign-On, the vSphere Web Client, vCenter Inventory Service, and vCenter Server
by Using Simple Install,"
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vCenter Server 5.5 supports connection between vCenter Server and vCenter Server components by
OTE
IP address only if the IP address is IPv4-compliant. To connect to a vCenter Server system in an IPv6
environment, you must use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or host name of the vCenter Server.
The best practice is to use the FQDN, which works in all cases, instead of the IP address, which can change if
assigned by DHCP.
Prerequisites
Review
Chapter 3, "Before You Install vCenter Server,"
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Review
"Prerequisites for Installing vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, and vCenter Server,"
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page 49
Procedure
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Install the First or Only vCenter Single Sign-On Instance in a vCenter Server Deployment
Create the only vCenter Single Sign-On instance in a basic vCenter Single Sign-On installation or the
first vCenter Single Sign-On instance in a deployment with multiple vCenter Single Sign-On instances.
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