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Installing vCenter Inventory Service
The second prerequisite for vCenter Server installation is the vCenter Inventory Service:
1.
From the VMware vCenter Installer, select VMware vCenter Inventory Service and then
click the Install button.
2.
From the vCenter Inventory Service installer welcome screen, click Next to continue.
3.
Select the radio button to accept the end-user license agreement and click Next.
4.
Change the directory for installation if desired and click Next.
5.
The vCenter Inventory Service installer will now ask you for the FQDN or IP address
with a name already in the i eld. Check or reenter this information and click Next.
6.
You will now be asked to select three different ports that the Inventory Service will com-
municate on. It's best to leave these ports at their preconi gured defaults unless absolutely
necessary. Click Next to continue.
7.
The JVM Memory screen asks how big your vCenter inventory will be once it's fully con-
i gured. Knowing an estimated size is a good idea, but you can always edit this coni gu-
ration at a later stage using the Tomcat service coni guration tool from the Windows Start
menu. For now, select Small and click Next to continue.
8.
On the Single Sign-On Information screen, you will need to know both the password that
you set during SSO installation, the master password, and also any changes made to the
default port that SSO is running on. Enter the SSO password and click Next to continue.
The installer will verify these details and prompt you to accept the SSO SSL certii cate
before continuing on to the next screen.
9.
Because this is the i rst installation of vCenter and you have not coni gured other certii -
cate services, the default security certii cates need to be accepted. These can be changed
from the default “self-signed” certii cates at a later time (covered in Chapter 8). For now,
click Install Certii cates.
10.
Finally, click Install to commence the installation and start the services.
11.
Once the installation is complete, click Finish to close the installer.
Installing vCenter Server
After you've logged on as an administrative user to the computer that will run vCenter Server,
start the vCenter Server installation process by clicking the link for vCenter Server in the
VMware vCenter Installer, shown previously in Figure 3.8. If you have skipped to this section
without reading the two prior sections, you will notice that there are a number of prerequi-
sites listed above the Install button. These are mandatory, so make sure to install these i rst if
you have not already done so. If you are running a version of Windows Server that uses User
Account Control, you could be prompted to allow the installer to run; if so, select Yes. After you
select a language for the installation, you arrive at the installation wizard for vCenter Server.
