The first thing you'd better understand what is at vcenter and vcsa: VMware Vsphere several different components
esxi is the server side physical server is installed, all the virtual machines are installed and then esxi inside, a server;
vCenter management end is mounted a virtual machine in esxi provides centralized management functions, such as managing multiple esxi cluster, can also be a variety of operating a series of management functions such as copy Cloner to make templates for virtual machines.
vcenter name linux kernel called vcsa, by means of win server to vcsa installed on esxi virtual machine, click on the exe installed on windows server, the installation process will enter esxi of IP, user and password, eventually adding a within esxi virtual machine as vcsa, window server does not have to install any software.
Individual windows version of vcenter name vcenter, is installed on more than server2008 windows server recommended by vcsa relatively easy to use, there is no copyright issues.
Installation Configuration vSphere vsan 6.5
vcsa System Requirements: Minimum 2-core CPU, more memory inside 8G
Note: vSphere 6.5 VSAN installation is not installed in the windows above, it is connected esxi installed through the windows desktop, vcsa on a virtual machine installed in esxi of (esxi server will add a virtual machine as a server vcsa)!
Here the system is windows server2012 R2 64bit (need windows server2008 above system) vSphere Vcsa and 6.5 ( VMware-VCSA-All-6.5.0-8815520.iso)
Mirroring and licensing address Esxi6.5 mirror + license
vSphere vsan 6.5
IP (or domain name) input VCSA deployed to the ESXi host, account and password, then deployed in the (existing connection Esxi server) on the ESXi server
Enter vcsa system name, IP, subnet mask, gateway, DNS and other information
Here System name is very important, if there is no DNS resolution of the domain name, use the IP!
If you want to add the domain name to be resolved correspond to a domain name and ip in the hosts of the current system which, if not resolved, it will yellow alarm information, if forced to install, can cause subsequent configuration can not be vcenter.
A first portion of the installation can be accessed by the address on the map! https://192.168.9.5480 (This address is vCenter Server Appliance management interface)
The second portion of the mounting configuration
Enter the address of the NTP server or use ESXi as a time server
SSO configuration, enter the domain name, password and the site at this time that vCenter Web Client login password using a password
Then you will find Esxi more inside a virtual machine that is vcsa server!
Login vCenter https://192.168.9.247/
Note: Use an account vsphere.local \ administrator account to log in, otherwise there is no sign in the appropriate permissions up
To which connected, you can set up a data center and a pleasant configure the cluster!
Configure licensing
Remember! After adding good license must be allocated! Be sure to assign! Be sure to assign!
Add a data center and host
