Category Archives: VMware

How to configure Highly Available External Platform Services Controller (PSC) Appliance?

This post covers configuring Highly Available External Platform Services Controller (PSC) Appliance (SSO). For more information about high availability of vCenter and PSC, please follow my post: VMware vCenter 6 Deployment Possibilities: Topologies and High Availability. Prerequisties and notes to build a highly available External Platform Services Controller Load Balancer, VMware supports only: Citrix Netscaler, F5 Networks or… Read More »

How to deploy the vCenter Server 6 Appliance with an External Platform Services Controller?

This post covers how to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance with an External Platform Services Controller. There are some posts about vCenter 6.0 and Platform Services Controllers as follow: VMware vCenter 6 Deployment Possibilities: Topologies and High Availability How to configure Highly Available External Platform Services Controller (PSC) Appliance? vCenter Host Gateway Appliance – Overview and Deployment. vCenter… Read More »

Invalid credentials appears during connecting vCenter Server with external Platform Service Controller in vSphere 6.

During deployment of vCenter 6 Appliance with the External Platform Service Controller I faced with the following error: Invalid Credentials As it is shown on the above figure, I used FQDN of Platform Services Controller to register it with the vCenter and I receive the error: Invalid Credentials. When I changed to IP address it worked well. DNS… Read More »