The vMA appliance will be deployed as an appliance on an ESXi server. It is a single virtual machine appliance. The ZIP bundle containing the OVF and the related files can be downloaded from the Download VMware vSphere available at http://bit.ly/download_vsphere.
It will be listed as download under the Drivers & Tools category:
Once you have downloaded the ZIP bundle, extract it before the OVF in it can be used to deploy the appliance. The following screenshot shows the contents of the extracted folder:
The vMA appliance can be deployed onto an ESXi host by using a direct vSphere client connection to the host or by connecting to the vCenter Server.
Here is a table showing supported host and target vSphere versions:
|
Hosts |
Targets |
|---|---|
|
vSphere 5.0 or later |
vSphere 5.0 or later |
|
vSphere 5.1 or later |
vSphere 5.1 or later |
|
vSphere 5.5 or later |
vSphere 5.5 or later |