- Record IP address to be provisioned to UI VM & Analytics VM
- Record the Download location of the vCenter Operations Manager OVA.
- Ensure the following TCP ports are open in your firewall
- SSH-22
- HTTP-80(https redirection)
- HTTPS-443
- OpenVPN tunnel-1194 -
- SMTP-25(default)-This is optional if you intend to configure mail alerts, also the ports may vary based on your environment
- VCM-1433 If you intend to provision VCM, need access to DB through this port
- Create IP pools- This is not really an IP pool rather a container of the Network association/configuration of the vApp
- Select the IP Pools tab.
- Click Add to add a new IP pool.
- In the properties dialog box, select the IPv4 tab.
- Type an IP pool name that you can recognize during future testing of IP pools.
- Enter the IP Subnet and Gateway in their respective fields.
- Do not select the Enable IP Pool checkbox and do not specify a range of IP addresses. You specify the IP address for the virtual machines in the vApp using the vApp OVF Deployment Wizard.
- Select the DHCP tab.
- Select the IPv4 DHCP Present
- check box if a DHCP server is available on this network.
- Select the DNS tab
- Enter the DNS server information.
- Enter the DNS Domain name of the DNS servers in your network in the IPv4 DNS Servers text box.
- In the Associations tab, select the network for the IP pool.
- Accept the EULA
- Specify an appropriate name - default value is "VMware vCenter Operations"
- Select the initial Configuration Size - Small, Medium, Large
- Select the host/cluster to deploy
- Select the Resource Pool
- Select the Data Store
- Select Thick Provisioned - Eager Zeroed- Using Thin disks have visible performance degradation
- Select the Network Configured in the IP Pools step
- Select the Fixed IP Allocation Policy or DHCP
- Set the Timezone
- Set the IP Addresses of the UI and Analytics
- Do not Power On after deployment
Note : Registration user should have administrative privileges to register the vCenter.
Happy Monitoring