VCF Installer in a Lab: Appliance Placement, Offline Depot and a Spec from the Planning Workbook
Overview Before the VCF Installer can build anything, three practical questions need answers. Where does the installer appliance run when no datastore exists yet? How does it get the 9.1.1 binaries? And how do you produce a deployment spec that passes validation? This post walks through each, with the small mistakes that cost time in this lab. Installer prerequisites to settle first The placement decision depends on what the installer needs, so check these before choosing a host. They follow the VCF 9.1 documentation for deploying the VCF Installer appliance. ...