{"id":12476,"date":"2015-04-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=12476"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:25:17","slug":"vmware-vcsa-6-0-deployment-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vcsa-6-0-deployment-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware vCSA 6.0 deployment - pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install01.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VMware vCSA 6.0 is the new vCenter Server Linux appliance version that offers almost same features as Windows based version.<\/p>\n<p>Version 6.0 introduced new enhancements and features reducing dramatically the gap with Windows based vCenter. Biggest caveat is that <strong>VMware Update Manager<\/strong> is still not included in the appliance and needs an additional Windows Server for its use.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Based on a hardened <strong>Suse Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 (64-bit)<\/strong>, the minimum appliance requirements for the VCSA are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 vCPU<\/li>\n<li>8 GB memory<\/li>\n<li>100 GB disk space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Blog series<\/h2>\n<p>VMware vCSA 6.0 deployment \u2013 pt. 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vcsa-6-0-configuration-pt-2\/\">VMware VCSA 6.0 configuration \u2013 pt. 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>DNS entry<\/h2>\n<p>Since VMware infrastructure heavily depends on DNS, before installing vCSA it's necessary to add its <strong>DNS record<\/strong> in the domain. Open the <strong>DNS Manager<\/strong> and configure the new <strong>A record<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install02.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install02\" width=\"523\" height=\"205\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Install Client Integration plugin<\/h2>\n<p>To install vCSA is required the VMware Client Integration plugin. Mount the downloaded vCSA <strong>.iso file<\/strong> (prior releases were deployed with OVF) and run the <strong>VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.exe<\/strong>\u00a0file.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install03.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install03\" width=\"525\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the installation Wizard starts, click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install04.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install04\" width=\"499\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accept the EULA then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install05.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install05\" width=\"499\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leave default destination folder then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install06.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install06\" width=\"499\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Install<\/strong> to begin the installation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install07.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install07\" width=\"499\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plug-in is being installed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install08.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install08\" width=\"499\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When installation has completed, click <strong>Finish<\/strong> to exit the Wizard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install09\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install09.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install09\" width=\"499\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Deploy vCSA<\/h2>\n<p>From the vCSA installation media, double click on <strong>vcsa-setup.html<\/strong> file to run the installer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install10\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install10.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install10\" width=\"525\" height=\"388\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Install<\/strong> for a fresh new installation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install11\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install11.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install11\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accept the EULA then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install12\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install12.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install12\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Insert the <strong>FQDN<\/strong>, <strong>User name<\/strong> and <strong>Password<\/strong> of the ESXi host on which to deploy vCSA. Click <strong>Next<\/strong> when done.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install13\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install13.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install13\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Yes<\/strong> to accept the SSL certificate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install14\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install14.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install14\" width=\"403\" height=\"282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Insert the <strong>Appliance name<\/strong> and specify the root <strong>Password<\/strong>. Click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install15\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install15.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install15\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For smaller installations all services can be installed onto the <strong>same appliance<\/strong> while for larger installations one or more <strong>external Platform Services Controllers<\/strong> should be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Install vCenter Server with an Embedded Platform Services Controller<\/strong> option then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install16\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install16.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install16\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Create a new SSO domain<\/strong> option specifying <strong>SSO Password<\/strong>, <strong>SSO Domain name<\/strong> and <strong>SSO Site name<\/strong>. Click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vmwarevcsa60install17\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vmwarevcsa60install17.jpg\" alt=\"vmwarevcsa60install17\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Choose the <strong>Appliance size<\/strong> then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install18\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install18.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install18\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The appliance size depends on your environment and the deployment comes with <strong>four sizes available<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install19\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install19.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install19\" width=\"570\" height=\"103\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the storage location for the appliance. <strong>Enable Thin Disk Mode<\/strong> option allows to save some space in the storage but for production environments it's suggested to use <strong>Thick Disk Mode<\/strong> instead. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install20\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install20.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install20\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Use an embedded database (vPostgres)<\/strong> option then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install21\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install21.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install21\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify <strong>Network Settings<\/strong> and thick <strong>Enable ssh<\/strong> option. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install22\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install22.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install22\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When ready to complete, click <strong>Finish<\/strong> to start vCSA deployment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install23\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install23.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install23\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The appliance is being deployed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install24\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install24.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install24\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When installation has completed, click <strong>Close<\/strong> to exit the Wizard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install25\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install25.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install25\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Access vCSA<\/h2>\n<p>From the preferred browser, type the appliance <strong>DNS_name<\/strong> to access the <strong>login page<\/strong>. Enter the <strong>SSO Domain Administrator credentials<\/strong> then click <strong>Login<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>User name: sso_domain\\administrator<br \/>\nPassword: \u00a0\u00a0<em>password<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install26\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install26.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install26\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The vCSA main screen is displayed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install27\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install27.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install27\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the console, vCSA screen is displayed as follow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"vcsa60install28\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vcsa60install28.jpg\" alt=\"vcsa60install28\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The deployment of the appliance is now complete. <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vcsa-6-0-configuration-pt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2<\/a> will cover the configuration of the <strong>authentication method<\/strong> (Active Directory) and the <strong>virtual environment<\/strong> setup (datastores, clusters, hosts, etc.).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"firma\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware vCSA 6.0 is the new vCenter Server Linux appliance version that offers almost same features as Windows based version. Version 6.0 introduced new enhancements and features reducing dramatically the gap with Windows based vCenter. Biggest caveat is that VMware Update Manager is still not included in the appliance and needs an additional Windows Server for its use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[241,583,1554],"class_list":["post-12476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-appliance","tag-vcenter-en","tag-vcsa-6-0","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}