Prerequisites for Deploying the vCloud Director Appliance

To ensure a successful deployment of the vCloud Director appliance, you must perform some tasks and pre-checks before starting the deployment.

• Verify that you have access to the vCloud Director .ova file.
• Before you deploy the primary appliance, prepare an NFS shared transfer service storage. See Preparing the Transfer Server Storage.
  Note: The shared transfer service storage must contain neither a responses.properties file nor an appliance-nodes directory.
• Install and Configure a RabbitMQ AMQP Broker.

vCloud Director Appliance Deployment Methods

• Deploy the vCloud Director Appliance By Using the vSphere Web Client or the vSphere Client
• Deploying the vCloud Director Appliance by Using VMware OVF Tool
• Deploy the vCloud Director Appliance with Signed Wildcard Certificates for HTTPS and Console Proxy Communication