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Deploying the vRealize Operations virtual appliance

Deploying the vRealize Operations 6.6 virtual appliance is very similar to any standard OVF/OVA deployment on vSphere. First, download the latest OVA appliance from VMware. Then deploy into the environment using the Deploy OVF Template wizard.

This can be done through the vSphere Web Client. The vSphere Web Client will be used as it is the only available client since vSphere 6.5. The thick C# client is deprecated and no longer available.

Browse to https://<vCenter FQDN>:9443/ or just https://<vCenter FQDN>:vsphere-client/.

If you have deployed any OVF or OVA package before, this process is no different. Select Deploy OVA Template on the cluster as shown in the following screenshot.
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