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Table 3‑8. Required Information for Installing vCenter Server or Platform Services Controller
on Windows (Continued)
Required for Required Information Default Your Entry
n
vCenter Server with an
embedded
Platform Services
Controller
n
vCenter Server with an
external
Platform Services
Controller
vCenter Server service account information
Can be the Windows local system account or a user
service account.
Note Starting with vSphere 6.5, the vCenter Server
services run as child processes of the VMware Service
Lifecycle Manager service.
Windows
local system
account
Account user name
Only if you use a user service account
-
Account password
Only if you use a user service account
-
n
vCenter Server with an
embedded
Platform Services
Controller
n
vCenter Server with an
external
Platform Services
Controller
vCenter Server database
Can be the embedded VMware Postgres database or an
existing external database
embedded
Postgres
database
Data source name (DSN)
Only if you use an existing external database. Leading and
trailing spaces are not supported. Remove spaces from the
beginning or end of the DSN.
-
Database user name
Only if you use an existing external database. Non-ASCII
characters are not supported.
-
Database password
Only if you use an existing external database.
-
All deployment types HTTP port 80
HTTPS port 443
Syslog Service port 514
Syslog Service TLS port 1514
n
vCenter Server with an
embedded
Platform Services
Controller
n
Platform Services
Controller
Secure Token Service port 7444
n
vCenter Server with an
embedded
Platform Services
Controller
n
vCenter Server with an
external
Platform Services
Controller
Auto Deploy Management port 6502
Auto Deploy Service port 6501
ESXi Dump Collector port 6500
ESXi Heartbeat port 902
vSphere Web Client port 9443
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