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6. Supply a display name for the vCenter Server virtual appliance, and click Next.
7. Select a destination datastore, and click Next.
8. Select the disk provisioning type (Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed, Thick Provision Eager
Zeroed, or Thin Provision).
Chapter 6, “Creating and Coni guring Storage Devices,” and Chapter 9 provide more
details on the different disk provisioning types. In all likelihood, you'll want to use Thin
Provision to help you conserve disk space.
Click Next.
9. Click Finish to start deploying the virtual appliance.
A progress window like the one shown in Figure 3.13 will appear while the vCenter
Server virtual appliance is being deployed to the ESXi host.
Figure 3.13
h is dialog box pro-
vides information
on the status of
the vCenter Server
virtual appliance
deployment.
10. Once the vCenter Server virtual appliance is fully deployed, go ahead and power it on.
You can use the VM console to watch the virtual appliance boot up. Eventually, it will
display a virtual appliance management screen. When booting the vCenter Server vir-
tual appliance it expects a DHCP server to be available on the network. If there is no IP
address shown on the management screen, just like Figure 3.14, please follow the next
section to assign one. If you do have an IP address, feel free to skip the next section.
Figure 3.14
h is management
screen lets you
confi gure network
access to the vCen-
ter Server virtual
appliance.
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