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Deploying the
vCenter Server Appliance and
Platform Services Controller
Appliance 3
You can deploy the vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded or external Platform Services Controller
to manage your vSphere environment. You can deploy a Platform Services Controller appliance and
register external deployments and Windows installations of vCenter Server Appliance with this
Platform Services Controller appliance.
You can deploy the vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance on an ESXi host
5.5 or later, or on an ESXi host or DRS cluster from the inventory of a vCenter Server instance 5.5 or
later.
For information about the software included in the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, see Overview of the
vCenter Server Appliance.
For information about the software and hardware requirements for deploying the
vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller appliance, see System Requirements for the
vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller Appliance.
The vCenter Server Appliance installer contains executable files for GUI and CLI deployments, which you
can use alternatively.
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The GUI deployment is a two stage process. The first stage is a deployment wizard that deploys the
OVA file of the appliance on the target ESXi host or vCenter Server instance. After the OVA
deployment finishes, you are redirected to the second stage of the process that sets up and starts the
services of the newly deployed appliance.
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The CLI deployment method involves running a CLI command against a JSON file that you previously
prepared. The CLI installer parses the configuration parameters and their values from the JSON file
and generates an OVF Tool command that automatically deploys and sets up the appliance.
Important For topologies with external Platform Services Controller instances, you must deploy the
replicating Platform Services Controller instances in a sequence. After the successful deployment of all
Platform Services Controller instances in the domain, you can perform concurrent deployments of multiple
vCenter Server appliances that point to a common external Platform Services Controller instance.
The vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller appliance have the following default user
names:
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