Dear Spoon Tuxedo
Thanks for your reply. I was asked by my boss to build a closed test environment, possibly because they had one production and i need to do some testing on upgrading infrastructure. Dont worry about EndOfLife. I Installed from physical DVD. I was trying to use this on VM that vcenter is installed.
However, I tried to install DNS manager on the windows 2012 r2, I assigned the PC an IP 192.168.1.104, with DNS set to 127.0.0.1. I created the forward looking zone file and reverse looking zone pointing to the PC's IP address. In command prompt i could ping the hostname win2012r2 and nslookup win2012r2 resolving to win2012r2.vsphere.local.
On the DNS manager of windows, if I right click on the icon and choose lookup, the command didnt return a proper result. So when i was trying to install vcenter it could not resolve the FQDN.
When I tried to use vsphere client to open template, i got sva_ovf09.ovf and sva_ovf10.ovf on the dvd, opening the one with 09 returned many lines saying 'duplicate element addressOnParent'
opening the one with 10 returned 'line 39: unsupported value disk.size for attribute capacity on element disk.