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PSC

Introduced in vSphere 6.0, the PSC is a component used to provide common infrastructure services for VMware products.

The PSC is an essential component in the design that provides services not only for vCenter Server and vSphere but the VMware product suite in general. SSO, for example, can also be shared with other VMware products to provide centralized user authentication (for example, vRealize Orchestrator, and vRealize Automation).

Depending on your environment and the infrastructure design, vCenter Server and the PSC can be deployed in two different ways—embedded or external:

Embedded: Preferred deployment for single-sites where you do not need to interconnect different vCenter Servers to the SSO domain. vCenter Server can be ...

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