Comments on: Step-by-Step: Deploy vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5

By: Leon Bailey

Leon Bailey — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:19:22 +0000

What licence do you change? The server ESXI?

By: veer

veer — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:36:38 +0000

If you can email the 6.5 iso to [email protected] i can try in my lab and let you know the problem?

By: veer

veer — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:34:00 +0000

Hello,

Can someone provide me the iso file for 6.5. From Vmware i can only get the 6.7 which i don’t want to get and need for 6.5.

Thanks,

By: Nitin Rawat

Nitin Rawat — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:39:50 +0000

Nice blog. I understood the concept very well. This blog is very informative. And it’s very interesting topic. Visit to get more knowledge. How To Upgrade Esxi Server To 6.7 On HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 Server https://www.hex64.net/how-to-upgrade-esxi-server-to-6-7-on-hp-proliant-dl380-gen9-server

By: Nagesh

Nagesh — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:11:53 +0000

You will have to use vSphere webClient and not vsphere Windows client to connect to ESXi host.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:25:32 +0000

Please help!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 I am running into this weird installation issue with VCSA 6.5 / 6.7.

I have VMUG membership and I downloaded 6.5 ESXi, 6.5 / 6.7 vCenter from there.

I have a small lab (on a shuttle box). Shuttle has i7 8700 CPU, 64gb ram, and plenty of HDD space on SSD with Windows 10 OS on it. Installed vmware workstation on it (Version 15). On top of that I installed ESXi 6.5 (WITHOUT any issues).

I have a domain controller server 2008 r2 where I created all entries using forward lookup / reverse lookup zone. So, I have host record entries for vcenter, psc, esxi, domain controller. I verified all this. ESXi has NTP set. Time is syncing with outside NTP server.

Problem I am getting into –

I have the vcenter binaries on domain controller which means I shouldn’t have connection issues (everywhere is 192.168.1.x range, esxi is pointing to domain controller as DNS server, I can ping back and forth).

When I run external PSC installation from domain controller, it stuck at 80% and sits there (waiting for vm to start), vm never starts and it fails. I checked the installer logs and it says – “ovfDeployTimer: ovf deployment failed after 3600000 ms passed in which no response from the server was received”. Why? domain controller and esxi have connectivity in between. I even deployed the OVF directly from ESXi but same thing (stuck at 80%).

I downloaded the ISO from vmware directly. Tried 6.5 and 6.7 but same error on both.

I bypassed DNS and used all IP addresses BUT SAME scenario (stuck at 80%).

I cant call VMWARE since its home lab. I tried everything I could. I have been working with vmware from a long time and never came across this kinda issue.

PLEASE HELP!!! Let me know if someone came across this kinda issue and how was this fixed.

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:08:18 +0000

Hello,

When the vCenter is deployed, you have to add ESXi in your configuration. If it’s a new vCenter appliance, you have to make the configuration. If it’s a migration, you should get all the configuration that came from the old vCenter.

Romain.

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:06:46 +0000

Hello,

You just have to download the vCenter ISO. Then the wizard takes care of deploying the Linux VM and migrate the data from the old vCenter to the new one.

Romain

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:34:43 +0000

I’m on my second install and expect the same results now that I read your post but how do you get pre-existing VM’s to show up in the appliance? Mine just says, like yours in the pic above, 0 virtual machines and 0 hosts.

By: JEHANZAIB YOUNIS

JEHANZAIB YOUNIS — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 04:45:42 +0000

hi there,
i have ESXi version: 6.5.0 already running with 4 virtual machines on it. I have 2 ESXI hosts by the way. I wanted to install vcenter to manage my these 2 hosts and their vm’s.

can i create a linux machine on one of the esxi host and boot it from the downloaded (vcenter iso) ? or i need to use standalone bare metal ?

Your example is using windows i guess

Thanks