You have to have a running ESXi host that’s reachable on your network.You’ll need the vCSA 6.5 ISO image ( available here).
There are a few requirements when deploying your 6.5 vCSA: May the vSphere Client for Windows rest in peace. The least of which is that Windows vCenter is going the way of the vSphere Client for Windows (C#), and the vCSA is here to stay. As of 6.5, the vCSA actually has advantages over the Windows vCenter. Going forward you will have to deploy vCenter as a virtual appliance, so that’s the type of deployment that we’ll be covering.Įven though there used to be a scale-out advantage to deploying vCenter in Windows, there’s not one anymore. Not only is that installation fairly straight-forward being that it’s a Windows application, but 6.5 is the last version of vCenter that VMware will make available for Windows. Though VMware still allows you to deploy vCenter on a Windows server, we’re not going to cover that here. Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA).
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Part 6: vSphere Deployment: Configuring vSphere Update Manager (VUM) in vCenter 6.5įor those unfamiliar, VMware vCenter is a management suite for your VMware vSphere environment. Part 5: vSphere Deployment: Configuring a Datastore Cluster in vCenter 6.5 Part 4: vSphere Deployment: Configuring Traditional Storage in vCenter 6.5 Part 3: vSphere Deployment: Configuring an HA Cluster in vCenter 6.5 Part 2: vSphere Deployment: Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Part 1: vSphere Deployment: Deploying ESXi 6.5 to a Host VSphere Deployment is a 6 part series that will walk you through deploying and configuring the components of vSphere 6.5.