If you’ve downloaded the vCenter Server Appliance .iso file, unpacked it to a folder on your Linux workstation, then hit a problem during installation reading the .ovf file during deployment to your VMWare ESXi hypervisor
./vcsa-ui-installer/lin64/installer
The end of the installation log will read something like this
There were a couple additional steps I had to do in order to get it to run from my filesystem, rather than from a mounted .iso.
firstly, chmod -R 777 the whole lot, e.g. if you’ve unpacked the iso into a folder called /vCentre-deployment then chmod -R 777 /vCentre -deployment
You will likely have to chmod +x the ./vcsa-ui-installer/lin64/installer file too. I didn’t need to run it using sudo since the installation is to a remote ESXi host on the network, not the local machine.
Upon re-running the installer, you should progress past the point where the installer throws the error shown above and see the following screen.
Note that even for a “tiny” deployment, 10GB of RAM is required on the ESXi host. A frankly obscene minimum requirement and hence where this blog post subsequently ends.
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