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.

  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 "vCenter Server (Requires External 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
    vcenter.rnd.com
    Root password
    redacted (Complex)
  9. On select deployment size use:
    Deployment size
    "Tiny vCenter Server" (Assuming less than 10 hosts and less than 100 VMs)
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. Start the setup
  13. After stage1 proceed to stage2. At stage 2 on appliance configuration give appropriate NTP server, enable SSH and continue
  14. 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
  15. Review values and click next to start stage2 of vCenter.
  16. After deployment is complete login to vcenter appliance management interface at https://<vcenter-ip-or-fqdn>:5480
  17. 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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