There are several reasons why you should deploy vCSA:
- Being a packaged and installed vCenter, the deployment is quick and you only need to supply a few details.
- The embedded PostgreSQL database supports up to 2,000 hosts and 35,000 VMs, and it is scalable and robust enough to be used for most environments.
- No need for extra Microsoft Windows licenses. Since VUM is now embedded, there is no need for a separate Windows box.
- Having now identical features, it's only a matter of time before VMware drops the vCenter Windows version permanently.
- vCSA 6.5 runs on Photon Linux OS and generally is a more secure OS compared to Windows.
- Less hardware to use since vCSA can be deployed only as VM. This allows ...