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First, Introduction
VCSA (VCenter Server Appliance 6.5), the number of hosts and virtual machines supported by the Windows version of VCENTER,VCSA is increased by 1000, 10000, respectively. Also avoids the purchase of more Windows licensing.
The detailed steps for how to create VCSA are described below
Second, the experiment
Adding "vcsa02.best.com" forward and backward parsing in DNS server
Mount the image file (if you can write the image to a USB flash drive or disc in a physical machine using a soft disk pass)
Open the image file and select "Installer" to open the installer
View Pre-Installation Introduction
Select the action you want to take, since our installation is the initial installation, select "Install"
Accept the license and click "Next"
How the entire cluster is not very large, use the embedded "Platform Services Controller" to
Enter the address, port number, user name, and password of the ESXi host, and if ESXi is not yet installed, refer to section 4.3 in the rear link: http://www.ctoclubs.com/?p=296
Verifying
Prompt warning, we know that the certificate is secure, so select "Yes"
Enter the password for the virtual machine (note: Not the password to log in to the Vcetner Web interface, which is the password for the VCSA host)
Select a deployment size, refer to the "Deployment size required resources" in the picture for reference
Enter the network, hostname, IP address and other information used by the VCSA host and click "Next" after the input is completed.
Select which storage to install to the ESXi host, tick "Enable thin disk Mode" in the graph will occupy disk space in real time, as the data increases, space will occupy more and more, if not tick the total space suggested by the front, select Finish, click "Next"
Confirm the installation information, confirm the error and click "Next" to install
Being installed, wait patiently for a while
After deployment is complete, it is used for browser access "https://vcsa02.best.com:5480/for the second phase of configuration
After viewing the introduction, click "Next"
For SSO configuration, enter the single sign-on domain name, admin password, and site name, and click "Next" when you are done.
Set time synchronization and whether SSH access is enabled
Confirm the host information, confirm the error and click "Done"
Prompt warning, if you have confirmed that the information is correct, click "OK" to
Hold on a moment.
Using the browser access "https://vcsa02.best.com/vsphere-client/" to log in to our newly completed Linux version of Vcenter Server will prompt the connection is not secure, but we confirm that the server is secure, so click on the " Advanced "Skip (SSL certificate issues will be described and configured later, and will be linked to when the document is completed)
Use the Flush plugin for vcenter Web, so click on the place labeled on the way, enable the plugin (Google, Firefox and other browsers, some browsers need to download and install the flush plugin)
Google Chrome click on "Enable" can
Enter a single singn-on username password to log in to Vcenter Server
Login successful
Installing VCSA6.5 (vCenter Server Appliance 6.5)