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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:

# Login to ESXi host ( https://<fqdn-or-ip-esxi>/ )
# Go to Virtual machines
# Select create / Register VM
# In the new window, Select "Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file". Click Next
# 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.
# 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
# Accept the license agreement. Click Next
# 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 
# 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
# Review values and click Finish
# 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==

# Login to web console of vcenter ( https://<ip-or-fqdn-of-vcenter>:5480 )
# Click on setup vCenter Server Appliance. 
# Provide root password specified during appliance deployment in previous steps
# Click next to go to stage2 of setup
# 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
# Do not join VMware's Customer Experience Program (CEIP). Click next
# 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. 
# 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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