


In Name and Location, enter the name of your vCenter Server Appliance and click Next.In the OVF Template Details page, click Next.Browse to the location of the vCenter Server Appliance downloaded.Launch the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client.VMware vCenter 5.5 Appliance Installation Steps:ġ- Download the VMware vCenter 5.5 Appliance OVA (I rather the OVA as all you have to get and deploy is a single file)Ģ- Deploy the VMware vCenter 5.5 OVA into one of your hosts. For that I have decided to document the process of installing the VMware vCenter 5.5 Appliance in a hope to encourage more of you to try it out. Further, with many of the earlier versions limitations being lifted it becoming much more viable option than ever before. Further it saves customers a Windows license and not to mention being much easier to maintain, patch and upgrade. Lately for most of my labs and even for many customers I have been deploying the VMware vCenter 5.5 Appliance, as it is much quicker to install and give less chances for error.
