First, download the Free Trial or if your licensed for the full version here!

*Note – Roughly 350GB disk space will be required!

Then we must configure a couple of pre-requisites required for the installation and successfull deployment of vCenter Operations Manager 5.3.

1. Open your vSphere client, clock on home > networking, then click on the Cluster you wish to monitor, select the IP Pools tab and click Add.

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   vCenter Operations Manager IP Pools Tab Step 1

3. You will then configure the Network Address and Default Gateway for the IP Pool.
4. 
5. Click Ok and you should now see your IP Pool in the list.
6. Now in your vCenter client, click on File > Deploy OVF Template

7. 

   vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Installation Deploy OVF Template Step

8. Select the OVA file you downloaded above

9. 

   vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Install Select OVA

10. Click Next
11. Click Next
12. Click Accept > Click Next
13. Select the name and Location > Click Next

14. 

    vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Install Configure Name

15. Click Next (Using Small as the Deployment0
16. Select the Cluster and Click Next

17. 

    vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Install Select Cluster

18. Select the datastore, Click Next
19. Accept the default of lazy zero, Click Next
20. Select the network map you wish to use, Click Next

21. 

    vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Install Select Network

22. Select the IP Addressing Scheme and click Next

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    vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Install Select IP

24. Configure the Time Zone and both IP Addresses, Click Next

25. 

    vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 Install Select IP Address

26. Check “Power On After Deployment” then Finish
27. You should now see the vApp for vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 power on.
28. You can now log into the Operations Manager UI using the default username and password of: admin/admin

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