PSC 6.5 deployment and configuration

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PSC 6.5 deployment and configuration

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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