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vCenter server appliance 6.5 deployment Error The supplied system is not valid

I was setting up a new VMware vCenter server appliance for a new project. While in the middle of setup of vCenter post deployment configuration I was keep receiving below error as log.

Messages
Error: The supplied system name FQDN is not valid.
Resolution: If the supplied system name is a FQDN, then make sure the DNS forward lookup results in at least one valid IP address in the system. if the supplied system name is an IP address, then it should be on of the valid IP address(es) in the system.

vcenter server appliance deployment installation error messages the supplied system name is not valid, dns forward backward lookup FQDN, dns name resolution.png

This appliance cannot be used or repaired because a failure was encountered. You need to deploy a new appliance. Failure details.

Receiving above error log message on getting start page means I will have to redeploy vCenter server appliance again,  

vsphere 6.7 vmware vsphere esxi appliance management getting started psc platform services controller embedded vcsa vcenter appliance, installation vmware workstation.png

To troubleshoot it, I checked nslookup and name resolution wasn't working properly.

vcsa vmware vcenter server vsphere name resolution nslookup non-existing domain, non-authoritative dns name resolution vcenter deployment installation resolve-hostname dns.png

This issue caused because vCenter installation is heavily dependent on DNS resolution (Check vCenter installation and setup guide), To resolved it further I checked on DNS server in DNS management mmc, Host A entry record for vCenter was not existed, I quickly created new A host record with PTR record in forward and reverse lookup zone.

Dns manager a name record glue record dnsmgmt.msc vmware vsphere vcenter server vcsa appliance deployment installation nslookup fqdn ip address forward reverse lookup zones.png

After testing nslookup again, outputs were positive. 

cmd nslookup powershell dns name resolution vmware vsphere vcenter server error fqdn ip not valid installation deployment fully quallified domain name name resolution vcenter error.png

After redeploying vCenter appliance ovf again, and in the last of State 1, I saw progress - Install - Stage 2: Appliance setup is in progress and it was working fine.

vmware vsphere vcenter install stage 2 appliance setup in progress, dns name resolution starting services nslookup dns management resolve name resolution a record host name record .png

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