It shows the deployment progress like below. Enter the Appliance IP address and other network settings. Create New SSO Domainġ0.Select the appliance size based on your requirement. create the new SSO domain if you do not have existing one. Enter the VCSA NameĨ.Select the deployment type. Enter the ESXi host detailsħ.Enter the Appliance Name and set the root user credentials. You need to provide the ESXi’s root credentials. Accept the VCSA 6.0 License Agreement.Ħ.Enter the target ESXi server IP address where you would like to deploy this appliance. VCSA – Upgradeĥ.Let me proceed with new VCSA 6.0 deployment.
The upgrade is possible only for vCenter Serveer appliance 5.1 U3 & vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 versions. If you want to upgrade the existing the appliance, click on “upgrade”. Click on “Install” vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Deploy Use the power ISO to mount the ISO file on the virtual CD drive or extract the file. Download the VMware vCenter Appliance 6.0.
The actual OVA file is present without the extension of. Let’s see that how we can deploy the vCenter Server 6.0 on ESXi from the Laptop. But in vSphere 6.0 onwards, you will be getting full VCSA 6.0 ISO which contains all the necessary files to deploy the vCenter appliance from the Laptop or Desktop. It can also be done by using the “Deploy the OVF template” option by right clicking on the Datacenter or the ESXi host from the vSphere web-client. Prior to the VMware vSphere 6.0, You will be directly getting the vCenter Appliance’s OVA file from VMware. Using OVA file, you can directly import as a VM in the vCenter server or ESXi host using vSphere client.