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When deploying service VMs under the Deploy Network & Security Services menu, only the shared datastore and dvPortGroup can be selected from the menu. To deploy the service VMs on a non-shared data store and standard vSwitch PortGroup, we can select Specified On-host settings for the deployment:

For the specified On-host settings to work, each ESXi host in the cluster needs to have Agent VM Settings configured. The Agent VM Settings can be found in Home | Host and Clusters | ESXi host | Configure | Agent VM Settings:

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