VCenter 6.5 without embedded PSC deployment and configuration
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Note that directly deploying from ova wont work. The setup wizard is buggy and even when "vCenter without embedded PSC" is chosen, the setup assumes Embedded PSC and does not gives option of joining PSC domain. Thus, for vCenter without embedded PSC setup using ui installer is must.
- Go to appropriate OS vCenter installer (eg vcsa-ui-installer/lin64) inside the vcenter iso file (eg VMware-VCSA-all-6.5.0-7312210.iso)
- Click Install
- Click next
- Accept license agreement and click next
- Select "vCenter Server (Requires External Platform Services Controller)"
- On Appliance deployment target give ESXi host (and not vcenter) details such as
- ESXi host name
- host3.rnd.com
- HTTPS port
- 443
- User name
- root
- Password
- redacted
- and click next
- On certificate warning click 'Yes'
- On Setup appliance VM use
- VM name
- vcenter.rnd.com
- Root password
- redacted (Complex)
- On select deployment size use:
- Deployment size
- "Tiny vCenter Server" (Assuming less than 10 hosts and less than 100 VMs)
- Select datastore and enable thin mode, if required. In case of local NFS storage from VMs the setup might fail due to space full error even when space is there. In such cases setting up PSC first on local datastore and then later doing storage vMotion to NFS might be better.
- On configure network settings page, use:
- Network
- appropriate vSwitch network
- IP version
- IPv4
- IP assignment
- static
- System name
- vcenter.rnd.com
- IP address, Prefix, Gateway and DNS
- Appropriate values
- Start the setup
- After stage1 proceed to stage2. At stage 2 on appliance configuration give appropriate NTP server, enable SSH and continue
- In SSO configuration enter appropriate values
- Platform Services Controller
- psc.rnd.com
- HTTPS port
- 443
- Single Sign-On domain name
- vsphere.local
- Single Sign-On password
- redacted
- and click next
- Review values and click next to start stage2 of vCenter.
- After deployment is complete login to vcenter appliance management interface at https://<vcenter-ip-or-fqdn>:5480
- Login to vcenter dashboard at https://<Vcenter-IP>/vsphere-client
- Note that https://<Vcenter-IP>/ui has a new HTML5 interface, but that interface is seriously limited. Deploying vSphere replication with static IP using HTML5 wont work. Site Recovery plugin does not shows up on HTML5 interface at all. Hence for all practical purposes we need to use Flash interface only.
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