vCenter Services
For the vCenter part, you must choose the platform (physical or virtual), the operating system (Windows-based or the appliance version), the amount of the resources, and the type of deployment (embedded or external PSC), as will be discussed in Chapter 4, Deployment Workflow and Component Installation.
Note that some deploy topologies have been deprecated, so be sure to read the KB article 2147672—Supported and deprecated topologies for VMware vSphere 6.5 (https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2147672) in order to choose the right deployment type.
Starting with vSphere 6.5, VMware recommends the usage of the vCenter Server vCSA option, with an embedded deployment (good enough for a small environment) or external PSC (if you have multiple ...
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