Hi All,

This is my second post for the video series VMware tutorial for beginners, this is a part of a YouTube series which you will find below:

In this post I am going to take you through installing vCenter server 6.7 step by step.

Login to the VMware website and download the vCenter Server

Link httpss://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VC670&productId=742&rPId=22641

The vCenter server is deployed in 2 stages.

Stage 1

Stage 1 is deploying the VCSA appliance VM on the ESXi host or the vCetner you may have selected.

Stage 2 is the configuration part where you configure the ntp, SSO details and the sso password.

Open the folder vcsa-ui-installer

Open the win32 as i am using a Windows 10 laptop for deploying this vCetner.

Scroll to the bottom you will find installer.exe double click and launch the installation for vcsa

you will find 4 options for fresh installation select install

Accept the terms of the licence and click Next

Click Next

Give the IPaddress for the vCenter root password and then Click Next

Press Yes

This is the vm ( virtual machine ) name vcenter

for home lab or test or development select tiny deployment

select the datastore to deploy the vcsa.

give the ip-address, subnet mask, gateway and dns details

Confirm all the information is correct and click Finish.

Stage 2

Once the instillation of Stage 1 is complete click Continue to start the Stage 2.

Select the Stage 2 and click Next

My ESXi has ntp configured so i select the first option.

From the drop down select Enable for SSH Access to enable.

create a single sign on domain and select the SSO password

if we have an existing sso domain this is the time we integrate this new vcenter to the existing sso.( you will need to remember the sso password to add it )

Click Next

Go through the summary page and click Finish.

Once the Installation is compleate connect to the vCenter by typing the IPaddress in the web browser in my case 192.168.1.90

select Web client Flex

enter the login details

administrator@vsphere.local

password which was given at the time of installation.

We have now connected to the new vCenter Server.

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