After you have selected your provisioning VM and started the provisioning process, you are ready to install Notepad++ and complete the process. In this exercise, you install Notepad++ version 7.3.3.
- Log in to the provisioning desktop as an administrator either from a VM console or the vSphere Web Client.
To access the vSphere Web Client, start a web browser and navigate to https://<vCenterServerHostname>:port/vsphere-client, where vCenterServerHostname is the host name of the vCenter Server and port is the port number specified during installation. Bookmark this page so that you can return to it easily. - In the search text box, enter the provisioning VM name.
- Select the VM from the list.
- Click the launch remote console icon.
- Log in to the provisioning desktop.
- If the following provisioning mode dialog box does not appear, reboot the VM.
Caution: Do not click OK now. You must first finish installing all required applications.
- Install Notepad++.
- Start Notepad++ to confirm that it has installed correctly.
- Close Notepad++, and reboot the VM.
Complete Provisioning
To complete the provisioning process, follow these steps.
- In the provisioning mode dialog box, click OK.
- Click Yes to finish.
- Click OK to reboot.
- After the VM has rebooted, log in to the VM.
- In the App Volumes dialog box, click OK.
- To verify that the AppStack has been created, in the App Volumes Manager console, click the Volumes tab.
Click the plus sign next to the AppStack name to display its details. The assignment count is zero, and the AppStack is ready for assignment.
