Installing VCenter Server Appliance 6.0

You need a windows machine to get the appliance installed.

Download – https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=490&downloadGroup=VC600U1

Open the ISO from a Windows machine – Install the VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin

Sometimes it takes very long time to install . May be me more than 20 minutes. It’s a known Issue as of 12/27/2015.

Open the Setup File

Choose install

Enter the Esxi Server Information to get the VCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Installed and Configured.

Security Untrusted SSL Prompt – Say Yes.

Enter Embedded Platform Services Controller for Smaller Deployments.

Create a new SSO Domain –

Leaving it as defaults

SSO Domain – vsphere.local

SSO Site name: – Default-First-Site

Choose Tiny (My case)

Choose the Data store –

Use an embedded Database –

Am Entering the system name as IPs, I don’t want to have any dependencies on the DNS.

Leave SSH unchecked.

Use vCenter Server Appliance Deployment

Username – administrator@vsphere.local

Use a browser or VMware vShere Client –

Now you can create a new Datacenter – Add the Esxi host.