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vSphere Installation and Setup Table 3‑5. Information Required for vCenter Inventory Service Installation or Upgrade (Continued) Required Information Default Your Entry Inventory size. The inventory size of your vCenter Server deployment: n Small (less than 100 hosts or 1000 virtual machines. n Medium (100-400 hosts or 1000-4000 virtual machines. n Large (more than 400 hosts or 4000 virtual machines. This setting determines the maximum JVM heap settings for VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices (Tomcat), Inventory Service, and Profile-Driven Storage Service. You can adjust this setting after installation if the number of hosts in your environment changes. See the recommendations in "Hardware Requirements for vCenter Server, the vSphere Web Client, vCenter Inventory Service, and vCenter Single Sign-On," on page 17. User name for the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user account. You must use the same vCenter Single Sign-On user name and password name when you install vCenter Single Sign-On, and install or upgrade Inventory Service, vCenter Server, and the vSphere Web Client. administrator Lookup Service URL. The Lookup Service URL takes the form https://SSO_host_FQDN_or_IP:7444/lookupservice/sdk, where 7444 is the default vCenter Single Sign-On HTTPS port number. If you enter a different port number when you install vCenter Single Sign-On, use that port number. Table 3‑6. Information Required for vCenter Server Installation or Upgrade Required Information Default Setup Language. This selection controls the language only for the installer. English vCenter Server license key. If you omit the license key, vCenter Server is installed in evaluation mode. After you install vCenter Server, you can enter the vCenter Server license in the vSphere Web Client. Data source name (DSN). Required if you use an existing database. Not required if you are using the bundled Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express database. Leading and trailing spaces are not supported. Remove spaces from the beginning or end of the DSN. Database user name. Database password. Required to use an existing database. Not required if you are using the bundled database. Non-ASCII characters are not supported. JDBC URL for database. Required if you use an existing database. The vCenter Server installer should generate and validate the JDBC URL for the vCenter Server database. If the installer fails to connect to the database by using the generated JDBC URL, the installer prompts you to specify the JDBC URL. The format of the JDBC URL depends on the database that you are using. See "JDBC URL Formats for the vCenter Server Database," on page 62.v Your Entry 66 VMware, Inc.
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