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Chapter 4 Unattended Installation of vCenter Server Heartbeat

7 Upon completion of the unattended installation, a message instructing to launch the Configure Server

wizard is displayed. Using the desktop icon, launch the Configure Server wizard.

8Click the Public tab.

9 In the Public Identity/Mode pane, select Non-Identical.

10 Enter the Name used to connect to vCenter or SQL Server.

11 In the NIC drop-down, select the Principal (Public) NIC.

12 In the Public IP drop-down, select the Principal (Public) IP address assigned to the Principal (Public) NIC.

13 In the first Mask field, enter the Subnet Mask of the Principal (Public) IP address.

14 In the Mgmt IP field, enter the reserved Management IP address for the Primary server.

15 In the second Mask field, enter the Subnet Mask of the Management IP address.

16 Click Finish. Do not start vCenter Server Heartbeat.

Unattended Setup of a Virtual Secondary Server

Installation of the Secondary server is similar to installation of the Primary server.

1 Create a .txt file containing the following configuration parameters:

This is an example of a parameter file (it must be modified before you use it).

<file_name.txt>

INSTALLTYPE:Install

OTE If installing into an environment that uses Windows Server 2008 R2 for DNS, you must configure

a security level on the DNS server that permits changes to DNS.

OTE The Name used to connect to vCenter or SQL Server is the DNS name by which application clients

connect to the application. Normally this is the original name of the vCenter Server or SQL Server. There

is only one Name used to connect to vCenter or SQL Server and it is the same on all servers in the cluster.

OTE The Management IP address is unique for each server in the Pair

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