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. 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).