vCenter 8 deployment on ESXI 8 - unable to select network with VMKernel adapter present

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I've been trying to deploy a fresh vCenter 8 on a new install of ESXI 8 (Dell r740xd). I am using the GUI deployment option and when I get to the network selection dropdown it does not want to show any port group that has an existing VMKernel adapters. Obviously installing vCenter without it having any connection to the ESXI host is pointless. I've tried selecting a network without any VMKernel adapters - and adding one after its selected.

What am I doing wrong? This is a vanilla install on an empty ESXI host.

EDIT:

/u/Dev_Mgr solved this for me. Looks like I am very rusty on new deployments.

Can't have vmKernel adaptors on port groups with VMs. Need 3 port groups then:

ESXI vmkernel - infra VLAN
vCenter VM - infra VLAN
VM network - VM VLAN

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