Deploying the appliance-based vCenter and its components
The appliance-based vCenter and PSC can also be deployed separately. We will be deploying the PSC first and then the vCenter Server as separate virtual machines. The appliance based vCenter or it components cannot be installed onto a physical machine.
Deploying a PSC appliance
Unlike the previous version wherein the appliance was deployed from an OVA, with vSphere 6.0, the appliance is deployed onto an ESXi host without the need to connect to an ESXi host using the vSphere client. This would require you to install the VMware Client Integration plugin before the appliance is deployed.
To install the Client Integration plugin, navigate to the vcsa folder of the DVD drive and double-click on ...
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