VMware vSphere 8 - Installing vCenter Server 8 VCSA appliance

In this episode, we take a look at installing VMware vSphere 8 and the steps involved to deploy the VCSA 8 appliance in your existing vSphere environment. The VCSA 8 appliance is deployed using the vCenter Server Installer utility. It deploys the virtual machine for vCenter Server 8 and allows implementing the configuration to stand up the SSO domain and other configuration.

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Introduction to installing vSphere 8 - 0:00
Discussing downloading the ISO image for VMware vCenter Server 8 - 0:42
Launching the vCenter Server Installer utility - 1:19
Going through and launching the installer - 1:27
Deployment target - 1:54
Selecting the folder to install in inventory - 2:25
Select the compute resource - 2:32
Naming the VM in vSphere inventory - 2:48
Select the deployment size - 3:00
Select the datastore to house the VCSA appliance - 3:27
Select and configure networking for your VCSA appliance - 3:33
Completing the configuration of Stage 1 for installing vCenter Server 8 - 4:37
Phase 1 has completed and continuing Phase 2 - 5:06
Synchronizing with time servers and selecting SSH options - 5:29
Configuring the SSO domain and setting the credentials - 5:38
Configure CEIP settings - 5:47
Ready to complete Phase 2 configuration - 5:52
After the Stage 2 installation completed successfully - 6:19
Logging into the vSphere Client for vSphere 8 - 6:40
Looking at the build and version for vCenter Server 8 - 7:05
Discussing IA release vs GA - 7:19
Wrapping up and concluding thoughts 7:32

Read my post to get the download links for vSphere 8, including vCenter Server 8 and ESXi 8:

Discussion of the vSAN Express Storage Architecture:

vSAN 8 technical deep dive:

[oscar]

I'm new in VMware, this video is helping me a loot.

Hope I don't do a mess in my enviroment :D

[calebarauz]

Excellent video, explains everything I needed to know.

[rfrancoi]

Great video Sir. Simple and straight forward.

[Mandolorian]

i am new too! i got my VCenter 6.7 up and running. Good video! thanks.

[djdzinzosm]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[sking]

Thanks for making these very informative videos, please keep it up!!!

[aaronsimonds]

Thank you! Went by without a hitch. I did have to go back and leave the FQDN portion blank due to a common error where the installation gets stuck on 0% at Stage 2.

[parl-]

Great Walkthrough. More vSphere and vCenter videos please! How about how to configure them un HA? Thanks!

[ricobelgin]

The first time is deployed this I had no issues, but the second time, I had to add the IP FQDN and simple name to the Windows /etc/hosts file. It was having issues with resolving the esxi 8 node.

[DontbeAMoron]

This was great, but could you also do a vido that shows the Upgrading process for a VSCA appliance and also ESXI hosts? I am currently running version 6.7. No one has a good how to video the upgrade process.

[matthewella]

not to sound like a boff but i think its really impressive vmware and on the engineers who design it

[koolightcool]

Thanks for your effort in making such content.

Does vmware and vcenter needs to be same version?

Can you share, what king of hardware youre using or suitable for esxi8. Thanks

[tadehaloian]

Thank you for this amazing quick tutorial. Can I install VCSA from any Windows machine in the same LAN?

[jefferytse]

Where is the best place to store vcenter? I have been screwed many times by having it in the vsan.

[jeffbarnett]

I'm getting a "vcenter upload hcl db failed: failed to replace old HCL DB" during phase I as I'm trying to select one of the my data stores. I'm not using a VSAN. Installation continues and later fails during phase II around 34% regarding failed vspx-srvc. I was hoping this video was give me clues. Any ideas?

[scribeofsolace]

i love the movie the crow...and i gotta learn this

[jonathanchavez]

Hello, when trying to access the sphere client I get "no healthy upstream"? Not sure how to fix this. It worked at first but now I get that. This is on my Lab using Vmware workstation Pro. I can also get to the VMware vCenter Server Management with no issues.

[paulgiovanni]

subbed an thumbsed up. very nice. does it matter where you install this application?

[NewbieNewbie-lldk]

This deployed for me okay but after lauching the vSphere client, it says "loading" for a few minutes before saying "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site." I can log into the Vcenter Server Management but not the vSphere client. I need help.

[michaelpietrzak]

So that Windows installer is simply running a deployment of a virtual machine that is to be a guest on an existing ESXI host? Is the vSphere client something else that needs to be installed or is it just the web frontend for VCSA