There could be several things, but as you've provided no other details at all it's impossible to know. Please show screenshots of your deployment process on VMware Workstation that contains the values you're providing to the wizard. Know that you must have A and PTR records created in local DNS for the hostname of vCSA *before* you begin deployment. If you do not have local DNS which can accommodate custom records, you cannot install vCSA.
Forward lookup zones sbm.local contains
VCSA01.SBM.local :192.168.0.13
ESX01.SBM.local :192.168.0.28
Except, I didn't have ptr enabled in the VCSA01.sbm.local. Could that be causing it?
Thanks,
Yes, you need forward and reverse lookup records for the vCSA to find it self properly.
It's still coming up with the same error even when vCSA is in the forward and reverse lookup records.
Please show screenshots of your entire installation process.
Ok, this is helpful. It looks like you might not have communication from the network you're presenting to your nested ESXi host to your DC. But, in the first place, why are you deploying vCSA to an ESXi host which is nested inside Workstation? Did you know that you can deploy directly to VMware Workstation and it supports the OVA properties? If you haven't enabled promiscuous mode inside your ESXi host, this might be the cause. That said, you'd probably see better performance if you deploy it directly to Workstation and skip a second layer of virtualization overhead.
Thank you.
I've installed the vsca 6.7 (esxi) using the installer its iP:192.168.0.19. When I'm trying to access it through web client
A server error occurred.
Unable to login because you do not have permission on any vCenter Server systems connected to this client.
Check the vSphere Web Client server logs for details.
When I'm trying to install the VCSA 6.7 in a virtual machine WINDOWS 2012 SERVER STD it comes with
Need clarification. You said you've deployed an ESXi host on 6.7 and now you're trying to install the vCSA 6.7 on top of that ESXi host? Is that correct?
I think so. How do I get access to the esxi host to configure the vm and so forth? Correct me if I'm wrong. As to my understanding you install an esxi host and to configure it you install vCenter Server or VCSA 6.7 ?
Thanks,
But if you're already running Workstation 14, you don't strictly *need* to deploy vCSA into a nested ESXi host. You can deploy as a VM to Workstation directly. This is not only simpler but more performant.
How do I deploy vCSA as a VM to workstation directly? My pc has 8.1 and I've created a VM with 2012 server to install the vCSA, and it's coming up with an error. The host is locked down. Permission to perform this operation was denied.
There are lots and lots of articles that cover this.
How to Deploy vCenter Server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14
Thank you.
I was able to install the vcenter after have done few changes in my own computer.
I had to set the dns server of my physical computer to point to a DNS server created in the VMware Workstation.
I created two entries in this DNS one for the ESX host that will host the vcenter machines and other that is pointing to the vcenter machines that will be created.