Deploying External Platform Services controllers

Starting with vSphere 6.0, VMware have bundled essential services such as the SSO, inventory service, and certificate management into a single manageable solution called the Platform Services Controller (PSC). The PSC can be installed on the same machine as the vCenter, installed on a separate supported Windows machine, or a PSC running on the virtual appliance.

Getting ready

Before we learn to deploy PSC, it is important to understand that there is more than one deployment model supported by VMware. Although PSC can be deployed as an embedded service along with VCSA, VMware does not support the pairing of an embedded PSC instance with an external PSC. Therefore, it is important to decide on the deployment model before we proceed:

• Single PSC model: A single PSC servicing more than one vCenter. The PSC in this case is a single point of failure.
• Shared SSO domain PSC model: More than one PSC servicing the same SSO domain. Although the PSC is not...