I finally got this to go but no thanks to VMware support.
To cut a very long story short, it would only work when I placed the VM holding the vCenter service on local storage and with the installer in that same local storage. Surely this is a bug. I always have ran the iso from my desktop in the past and never,ever had an issue. Neither do I store VM on local storage.
Unfortunately this was the only way to get it to go for me