Deployment on Matt Allford

VCSA CLI Deployment: Format Requires a Mapping

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:25:24 +0000

I’ve recently been doing a lot of work in my home lab, which has involved me moving from a flat /24 network (yeah, I know) to a somewhat more realistic lab environment with a Cisco SG300 switch and Ubiquiti EdgeRouterx. Due to these networking changes, as I build out the environment I’ve been creating a lot of VLANs and subnets between my physical ESXi host, the Cisco switch and the ERx.

vSphere 6.5 – CLI VCSA External Deployment Walkthrough

Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:43:59 +0000

The post below will walk through the deployment of an external vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 node and Platform Services Controller (PSC) to a target ESXi server using the command line interface (CLI) deployment method.

If you are interested in also seeing the GUI deployment or other GUI/CLI deployments, please see my post here which has links off to other individual articles for different deployment methods.

For each of the deployment methods I am providing a video as well. Please find the video for the VCSA External CLI deployment below. This has been recorded in FullHD, so best to watch it in Full Screen!

vSphere 6.5 - VCSA Deployment Walkthroughs

Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:41:25 +0000

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Introduction

So I’ve finally had some spare time to download and have a look at some of the vSphere 6.5 components and I’ll be planning to do a few blog posts in early 2017 on some of the cool new features that have been added in this release.

I’ve decided to start with a few posts on the deployment of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using both the new GUI installer and the CLI option as well. I’ve put the links immediately below, but I’ve also written a little about the VCSA below in this article which you may like to read as well. I’ll walk through the deployment of an embedded VCSA as well as an external deployment with 1 PSC and 1VC node. The individual posts below include both a video and text with screenshots.