I was doing vSA 5.1 installation in a lab environment and wanted to try Brownfield Installation (vCenter and other VMs residing on the local datastores of ESXi hosts prior to vSA installation).
The installer wanted me to power all running VMs down and I powered all VMs down. However I would need to have vCenter server VM running in order to complete the installation. I realize that vCenter would not live on the VSA datastores however I could not get the installation move forward with vCenter running on the ESXi hosts where VSA is planned to install. What am I missing?
There is serious lack of documentation surrounding Brownfield installations. I found a bunch of posts from Rawlinson, however not much apart from them.
Thanks in advance.