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Karan9650
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VMware vCenter Deployment directly on a VMware Virtual Machine.

Hi All,

 

Just want to test my understanding around vCenter Server.

Since vCenter Server is having a native OS functionality (Photon (Linux-based) OS) built in, can we simply deploy it on a VMware-VM without the need of any additional OS. Do we have an option of OVA/OVF files for the same to simply deploy on a virtual machine. 

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alantz
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When you install vcenter you point it to a host and it will import the photon OS and lead you through configuration in a two step process. You could probably manually import the OVF and script a configuration as well, but I haven't ever done that, I've always used the installer.

--Alan--