vCenter as a single component. Some larger complex deployments may have had multiple SSO servers, but you still think of SSO as fundamental to vCenter. Starting in vSphere 6.0 vCenter is being decoupled into two distinct parts. The first is known as the Platform Services Controller (PSC), and the remainder are all the vCenter services. You can see this in the VMware graphic below, showing the management node (vCenter services) and the PSC. Other VMware products like the vRealize suite can utilize the PSC services, such as authentication. When you install vCenter now, it no longer prompts you for various components. It installs the full suite every time…whether you want everything or not. This full suite includes the following components: vCenter Server vSphere Web Client Inventory Service Profile-driven storage Auto Deploy Syslog Collector ESXi Dump Collector and more… Separately installable IS vSphere Update Manager. You can combine the VCSA (vCenter appliance