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It's generally not necessary to modify the LDAP port unless you know that the other
vCenter Server instance is running on a port other than the standard port.
Click Next to continue.
7.
Click Continue to proceed.
8.
Click Finish.
Using this same process, you can also remove an existing vCenter Server installation from a
linked mode group.
After the additional vCenter Server is up and running in the linked mode group, logging in
via the vSphere Client displays all the linked vCenter Server instances in the inventory view, as
you can see in Figure 3.11.
Figure 3.11
In a linked mode
environment, the
vSphere Client
shows all the vCen-
ter Server instances
for which a user has
permission.
One quick note about linked mode: While the licensing and permissions are shared among
all the linked mode group members, each vCenter Server instance is managed separately, and
each vCenter Server instance represents a vMotion domain by virtue of each vCenter Server
having unique datacenter objects that ultimately represent a vMotion boundary. This means
that you can't perform a vMotion migration between vCenter Server instances in a linked mode
group. We'll discuss vMotion in detail in Chapter 12.
Installing vCenter Server onto a Windows Server-based computer, though, is only one of the
options available for getting vCenter Server running in your environment. For those environ-
ments that don't need linked mode support or environments for which you want a full-featured
virtual appliance with all the necessary network services, the vCenter Server virtual appliance
is a good option. We'll discuss the vCenter Server virtual appliance in the next section.
Deploying the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance
The vCenter Server virtual appliance is a Linux-based VM that comes prepackaged and prein-
stalled with vCenter Server. Rather than creating a new VM, installing a guest operating system,
