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Kannangara
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Deploy vCenter appliance 7 without DNS

Hi, 

Is it possible to deploy vCenter appliance 7 without FQDN or DNS ? Please share how it can be done. 

Thanks 

Kannangara

 

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sjesse
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possible yes, just use an IP for everything, but why? is this for a lab, just install a local dns server, ad will do as well just manually add the dns . It will work by IP but its not really designed to, though they may ahve fixed in the last two years. I haven't tested this since I don't know of a reason not to use dns.

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2018/12/is-a-dns-server-still-required-when-using-a-static-ip-for-vc...