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vCenter Server Appliance deployment

vCSA is prepackaged and preinstalled Photon Linux-based VM that provides vCenter and PSC services. As compared with old versions, vCSA now offers the same capabilities provided by the Windows-based version plus some exclusive services, such as native HA, native backup and restore, a migration tool, and improved appliance management.

With vSphere 6.7 you can run the vCSA GUI and CLI installers on Microsoft Windows 2012 x64 bit, Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 x64 bit, Microsoft Windows 2016 x64 bit, and macOS Sierra. The new capabilities make the appliance complete and ready to take over the Windows-based version.

The following is a short description of features available in vSphere 6.7:

Native HA: This feature, ...

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