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VCF Installer Bypass Reference

Day-0 validation bypass and timeout workarounds for the VMware Cloud Foundation Installer and SDDC Manager. Append properties, restart services, and deploy a full fleet on under-spec lab hardware — version-aware for VCF 9.0, 9.0.1, and 9.1 with copy-ready commands and undo steps.

Single / dual-host vSAN ESA HCL skip 10GbE / MTU overrides Deploy-timeout tuning Copy-ready + undo
Not for production. These flags disable HCL, connectivity, and hardware pre-checks intended to protect supported deployments. Use only for functional testing, education, or PoC.
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Access: SSH to the VCF Installer appliance as the vcf user, then su to root. Apply matching properties on SDDC Manager post-bringup so bypasses persist through Day-2 ops (host commissioning, workload domains). Append each line, then run the per-card restart command.
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