#How to install vcenter 6.5 software#
Mount the VCSA 6.5 ISO using an emulation software then open VMware Workstation 14. Now that our environment is ready for the VCSA deployment, let’s begin. Click Add Host.ĭeploying VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation 14 Also, check the Create associated pointer (PTR) record box to create the PTR record using this one operation. Type in the desired name and IP address that you will assign to the VCSA VM. Open the DNS Manager console, go to your internal DNS zone, right-click it and choose New Host (A or AAA). All we have to do here is create an A and PTR record for our VCSA appliance.
If this part is not handled, the auto-configuration of the VCSA virtual machine will fail.
OVA template, we have to take care of DNS which is a very important service not only in a production environment but in a lab also. Do not ever think to put this in production because it can become very unstable.īefore we import the VM from the. I don’t have to tell you that this type of deployment should only be used in a lab environment. For this article however we are going to use the latest versions of both (at the time of this writing), the VCSA and VMware Workstation. To deploy those legacy versions of the VCSA inside VMware Workstation we will have to use the old method and edit the. The bad news is that if we want to deploy a VCSA bellow version 6.0 it’s not going to work. I am not complaining here, because it was not a hard thing to do, but now it’s even easier than before since it’s natively supported. VMX configuration file in order to make it work.
OVA template, then edit the virtual machine. Previous to this, if we wanted to run VCSA in VMware Workstation we had to import the appliance from the. Looks like VMware Workstation got to version 14, and starting with this version we get a new neat feature, and that’s support for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).
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