PSC 6.5 deployment and configuration

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Note that directly deploying from ova wont work. The setup wizard is buggy and even when "Platform Services Controller" is chosen, the setup assumes Embedded PSC and finally deployed PSC appears as embbedded. Later on when we try to deploy vCenter without embedded PSC and join to this PSC SSO, we get error that PSC is embedeed. Hence using ui installer for deploying independent PSC is must.

  1. 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)
  2. Click Install
  3. Click next
  4. Accept license agreement and click next
  5. Select "Platform Services Controller"
  6. 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
  7. On certificate warning click 'Yes'
  8. On Setup appliance VM use
    VM name
    psc.rnd.com
    Root password
    redacted (Complex)
  9. 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.
  10. On configure network settings page, use:
    Network
    appropriate vSwitch network
    IP version
    IPv4
    IP assignment
    static
    System name
    psc.rnd.com
    IP address, Prefix, Gateway and DNS
    Appropriate values
  11. Start the stage1 of setup.
  12. After stage1 proceed to stage2. At stage 2 on appliance configuration give appropriate NTP server, enable SSH and continue
  13. In SSO configuration choose "Create a new SSO domain" if not setting up DR site for linked mode and enter appropriate values
    SSO domain name
    vsphere.local
    Change this only if necessary, this can be different from AD domains
    SSO username
    administrator
    SSO password
    redacted
    Site name
    gbbrnd
  14. Choose to opt-out of CEIP and click next
  15. Review values and click finish to start stage2 of PSC deployment
  16. After deployment is complete try to access https://psc.rnd.com/psc with administrator@vsphere.local and password.



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