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### Deploying the Offline Depot Appliance
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To deploy the appliance, simply deploy the OVA on your vCenter Server like you would normally do.
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Next, provide a name for the VM and specify its deployment location:
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Then, select the compute resource for the VM. You can choose to automatically start the VM after import by checking the box; otherwise, you can power it on manually to observe the first boot process.
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Review the settings and proceed by clicking Next.
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Next, select appropriate storage with sufficient capacity for your needs.
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On the next screen, select the network for ODA deployment. As discussed in the previous section, it is recommended to deploy the appliance on the management network.
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Now, specify the networking attributes, including hostname, IP address, and netmask, according to your environment's requirements.
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1. To deploy the appliance, simply deploy the OVA on your vCenter Server like you would normally do.
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 1](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-1.png)
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2. Next, provide a name for the VM and specify its deployment location:
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 2](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-2.png)
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3. Then, select the compute resource for the VM. You can choose to automatically start the VM after import by checking the box; otherwise, you can power it on manually to observe the first boot process.
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 3](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-3.png)
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4. Review the settings and proceed by clicking Next.
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 4](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-4.png)
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5. Next, select appropriate storage with sufficient capacity for your needs.
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 5](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-5.png)
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6. On the next screen, select the network for ODA deployment. As discussed in the previous section, it is recommended to deploy the appliance on the management network.
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 6](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-6.png)
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7. Now, specify the networking attributes, including hostname, IP address, and netmask, according to your environment's requirements.
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![Deploy Offline Depot Step 7a](images/Deploy-Offline-Depot-Step-7a.png)
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The subsequent section allows you to set the password for the admin user, which is used for SSH access to the appliance.
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Specify the target VCF version for binary downloads (e.g., '9.0' for VCF 9). The Advanced section offers options to enable SSH and the Jupyter Lab server. Enabling the Jupyter Lab server is highly recommended and is selected by default.
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### Initial Boot
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You should see this if you selected the option to skip the automatic download of the binaries or if the appliance had some issue trying to download the binaries:
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![Offline Depot Web Server](images/Offline-Depot-Web-Server.png)
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This indicates that no binaries have been put into place on the depot. After you download binaries (see below) then this will be populated.
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![Offline Depot Jupyter Notebook](images/Offline-Depot-Jupyter-Notebook.png)
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Here, you will see two Jupyter notebooks that can assist you in performing a variety of tasks.
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This is the preferred manual method, as it makes things a bit easier. Simply access the Depot Maintenance Jupyter Notebook and go to the section about downloading the binaries and follow the directions.
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![Offline Depot Jupyter Notebook Manual 1](images/Offline-Depot-Jupyter-Notebook-Manual-1.png)
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Please note that the Jupyter Notebook will display the output of the command cell executed (if there is any). For example, if you ran the cell to download the ESX binaries for Holodeck, you would see something similar to this:
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![Offline Depot Jupyter Notebook Manual 2](images/Offline-Depot-Jupyter-Notebook-Manual-2.png)
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Set proper ownership and permissions on all depot files:
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### Configuring HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for the Offline Depot
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![Offline Depot Storage Expansion](images/Offline-Depot-Storage-Expansion.png)
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Next, you need to expand the filesystem in order to take advantage of the new partition space by using a command like:

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