Integrated vCenter 6.5 and PSC 6.5 deployment

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Ideally PSC should be external as that helps in some DC/DR failover, cross-vcenter or linked-mode, etc. configuration. However, for some test POC setups integrated PSC can also be used. To deploy vCenter with integrated PSC choose:

  1. Login to ESXi host ( https://<fqdn-or-ip-esxi>/ )
  2. Go to Virtual machines
  3. Select create / Register VM
  4. In the new window, Select "Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file". Click Next
  5. Enter VM name. Browse and select vcenter appliance image. Click Next. The vcenter appliance image is part of iso such as VMware-VCSA-all-6.5.0-7312210.iso. In iso go to vcsa folder and select ova such as VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-6.5.0.13000-7312210_OVF10.ova.
  6. Select storage and Click Next. 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
  7. Accept the license agreement. Click Next
  8. Select required network where PSC should be deployment. Change deployment size from tiny only if more than 10 hosts or 100 VMs might get managed. Use thin/thick provisioning based on requirement. Leave power on automatically selected. Click Next
  9. In Additional settings page use:
    • Networking configuration
      Host Network IP Address Family
      ipv4
      Host Network Mode
      static
      Host Network IP Address
      172.17.1.102
      Host Network Prefix
      24
      Host Network Default Gateway
      172.17.1.1
      Host Network DNS Servers
      172.17.1.87
      Host Network Identity
      vcenter.rnd.com
      If DNS entry is not present we can enter IP address in place of FQDN also in 'Host Network Identity'
    • SSO Configuration
      Directory Password
      redacted
      Directory Password confirm
      redacted
    • System Configuration
      Root Password
      redacted
      Root Password confirm
      redacted
    • Networking properties
      Domain Name
      rnd.com
      Domain Search Path
      rnd.com
      and click next
  10. Review values and click Finish
  11. After this we should wait for 10-15min before we access setup interface at port 5480. Before accessing setup interface the console should show us option of connecting on port 5480 using IP.


Integrated PSC 6.5 and vcenter 6.5 configuration

  1. Login to web console of vcenter ( https://<ip-or-fqdn-of-vcenter>:5480 )
  2. Click on setup vCenter Server Appliance.
  3. Provide root password specified during appliance deployment in previous steps
  4. Click next to go to stage2 of setup
  5. Provide details like IP address, system-name (IP is acceptable) and ntp server. Enable SSH access. Click next
    • SSO configuration
      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
    Click next
  6. Do not join VMware's Customer Experience Program (CEIP). Click next
  7. Review values and click Finish. Click 'Ok' on the warning. It will take long time for setup to finish. Do not close browser and do not refresh else setup will fail and you would have to delete appliance and again create a new appliance.
  8. Login to vcenter appliance management interface at https://<vcenter-ip-or-fqdn>:5480
  9. 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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