vSphere 6 - Reconfigure Embedded vCenter to External PSC

Sat, 02 Apr 2016 10:45:08 +0000

Introduction

As of vSphere 6.0U1, VMware allow an embedded vCenter server deployment to be reconfigured to an external deployment, which demotes the Platform Services Controller (PSC) components of the embedded node and points the VC server to an external PSC node which resides in the same Single Sign On (SSO) domain as the source embedded node.

This is done by using the utility cmsso-util

Before we get too much further, there are two main uses for cmsso-util:

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vSphere 6 - Reconfigure Embedded vCenter to External PSC

Introduction