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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Server Installation and Setup
- Contents
- About vCenter Server Installation and Setup
- Introduction to vSphere Installation and Setup
- Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance
- File-Based Backup and Restore of vCenter Server
- Image-Based Backup and Restore of a vCenter Server Environment
- After You Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance
- Log In to vCenter Server by Using the vSphere Client
- Install the VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in
- Repoint vCenter Server to Another vCenter Server in a Different Domain
- Repoint a Single vCenter Server Node to an Existing Domain without a Replication Partner
- Repoint a vCenter Server Node to an Existing Domain with a Replication Partner
- Repoint a vCenter Server Node to a New Domain
- Syntax of the Domain Repoint Command
- Understanding Tagging and Authorization Conflicts
- vCenter Server Domain Repoint License Considerations
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server Installation or Deployment
vCenter Single Sign-On is required with vCenter Server.
vSphere License Service
The vSphere License service provides common license inventory and management capabilities
to all vCenter Server systems within the Single Sign-On domain.
VMware Certificate Authority
VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) provisions each ESXi host with a signed certificate that
has VMCA as the root certificate authority, by default. Provisioning occurs when the ESXi host
is added to vCenter Server explicitly or as part of the ESXi host installation process. All ESXi
certificates are stored locally on the host.
For information about all authentication services and capabilities, see
vSphere Authentication
.
Services Installed with vCenter Server
These additional components are installed silently when you install vCenter Server. The
components cannot be installed separately as they do not have their own installers.
PostgreSQL
A bundled version of the VMware distribution of PostgreSQL database for vSphere and vCloud
Hybrid Services.
vSphere Client
The HTML5-based user interface that lets you connect to vCenter Server instances by using a
Web browser. This vSphere Client replaces the Flex-based vSphere Web Client from vSphere
7.0.
vSphere ESXi Dump Collector
The vCenter Server support tool. You can configure ESXi to save the VMkernel memory to
a network server, rather than to a disk, when the system encounters a critical failure. The
vSphere ESXi Dump Collector collects such memory dumps over the network.
vSphere Auto Deploy
The vCenter Server support tool that can provision hundreds of physical hosts with ESXi
software. You can specify the image to deploy and the hosts to provision with the image.
Optionally, you can specify host profiles to apply to the hosts, and a vCenter Server location
(folder or cluster) for each host.
VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager Extension
vSphere Lifecycle Manager enables centralized, automated patch and version management
for VMware vSphere and offers support for VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual
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