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Click OK.Īppliance configuration starts now. Once started, we will not be able to pause or stop the installation process. Click Next.ĭecide if you want to join VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program. As you can see, you can’t change the SSO administrator username. Choose your domain name, password and the site name. You can change both options later in appliance console. You can either name the desired NTP server, either opt for synchronization with the ESXi host.
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Install VCSA 6.7 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance) – Stage 2Ĭhoose time synchronization mode. To move to the second stage, click Continue. We have the appliance ready and powered-on on the target ESXi server. The wizard starts now to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance 6.7.įirst stage is now complete. Review all the settings and if everything is correct, click Finish. To avoid deployment failure, double-check the FQDN and the IP address. Pay attention to the system name (you will not be able to change it afterwards).
We need now to configure networking details. I check below for forward and reverse name resolution. Before moving on, make sure you already have A and PTR records for VCSA in your DNS server (if you miss this one, deployment will fail). You need to decide on DNS records of the vCenter appliance. I will not treat vSAN deployment in this article. Last option allows you to configure a new vSAN cluster and deploy the appliance on this cluster. You have also the option to enable thin disk mode. Select on which ESXi datastore you want to deploy the appliance. As I deploy this vCenter in a home lab, I chose Tiny deployment with a default storage size. You can see the resources allocated for different deployment sizes. Click Next.įor next step we need to select the deployment size. We need now to set up the appliance name (this is the name of the virtual machine that you will see in vSphere Client, and not the FQDN of the vCenter) and the root password. If you don’t have trust relationship configured, you will receive a certificate warning. Installer will connect now to the ESXi server.
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If you don’t have any available ESXi server, you can read my article How to Install VMware vSphere 6.7. We now have to enter the details of the ESXi server where we will deploy the VCSA 6.7 appliance. Read more on vCenter 6.7 available deployment types. I will show a simple installation, so I will choose “vCenter Server with an Embedded Platform Services Controller”. Read the End user license agreement, check “I accept the terms of the license agreement” checkbox and click Next. Let’s start with first stage: click Next. At the end of the first stage we will deploy the appliance, then in the second stage we will configure it. The installation process consists in two separate stages. VCenter Server Appliance 6.7 Installer will start.
Launch installer.exe and begin to install VCSA 6.7.
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Unzip the archive and navigate to VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-10244745\vcsa-ui-installer\win32 folder. To launch the installer I will use a Windows virtual machine (alternatively you can use a Mac or a Linux system). Install VCSA 6.7 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance) – Stage 1 Note: If you look for VCSA upgrade instructions, check this article: How to Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 to 6.7 – Stage 1.
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For this article, I will use the VCSA 6.7 Update 1 version – VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-10244745.iso (the latest available at the time I wrote this article). To start, you need an installation kit of vCenter Server Appliance 6.7. In this article I will show you how to install VCSA 6.7 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance).