First thing to do in a vSphere 6.x deployment is to understand the new deployment architecture options available on the vSphere 6.0 platform, which is somewhat different from the previous versions of vSphere. The below will highlight key information but is not a complete guide to all the changes..etc. For that I’d advise you to refer to the official vSphere documentation ( found here ) Deployment Architecture The deployment architecture for vSphere 6 is somewhat different from the legacy versions. I’m not going to document all of the architectural deference’s (Please refer to the VMware product documentation for vSphere 6) but I will mention few of the key ones which I think are important, in a bullet point below. vCenter Server – Consist of 2 key components Platform Service Controller (PSC) PSC include the following components SSO vSphere Licensing Server VMCA – VMware Certificate Authority (a built in SSL certification authority to simply certificate provisioning to all