Leave the “Destination Folder” as default and press “Next”.

Accept the licence agreement and select “Next”.

In the VMware Client Integration Plug-in Installer window, select “Next”.

Open the “vcsa” directory and execute the “VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.exe” file.

Access the Console of the Windows 7 VM and browse to the mounted ISO image.

Mount the file “VMware_VCSA-all-6.0.0-xxxx.iso” to a Windows VM.

Install the VMware Client Integration Plug-in

Functioning NTP and DNS servers with populated FQDN for target vCSA.

You have an ESXi host that has enough resources to host the vCenter Server Appliance.

You have a Windows 7/Windows Server 2012 VM that can be used to remotely install the vCenter Server Appliance.

You have the VCSA 6.0 RC or GA ISO image.

Why has VMware changed their process? This method provides a fresh installation of the software each time, the binaries are actively installed and configured rather than deployed from a pre-baked OVA template and then customised via the admin user interface. There is a HTML 5 script that you run to step through the wizard and install the vCenter Server Appliance to a remote ESXi host. If you have been used to vCSA in previous vSphere versions, the OVA file has now been replaced by an ISO image, that you need to mount to a Windows Guest OS. This post has been constructed using the vSphere 6.0 Release Candidate (RC – Build 2175370)

vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 6 – vSphere Authentication Proxy.

vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 5 – vSphere Update Manager.

vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 4 – vCenter Server Install with Windows Server 2012 R2.

vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 3 – vCenter Server Appliance Install.

vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 2 – vSphere Client Install.

vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 1 – ESXi Install.

This is a 6 part series, describing the installation basics of vSphere 6.0: This is part 3 of the vSphere 6.0 Basics, detailing the installation of the vCenter Server Appliance.

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