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Have a workstation ready to perform the deployment with sufficient network access and administrative rights.

Save your passwords in your Password Management system (Appliance password / SSO password).

Create forward and reverse DNS records in your DNS Server.

Create firewall rules for your new vCenter Server.

Download the latest release from the VMware website.

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Read the release notes ( VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 1 Release Notes).

Let’s start with some basic stuff that is required: The checklist is completed and you have determined that everything is working or is acceptable to continue.

Is your ESXi host hardware compatible with vSphere 6.7 Update 1?.

Do you deploy against an ESXi Host or a vCenter Server?.

Verify the Hardware Requirements for the vCenter Appliance (depending on your chosen size and internal or external PSC).

Please do not deploy a vCenter Server on Windows.

Where is Windows? Please read this article from more than one year ago.

An external Platform Services Controller will not be available anymore in the future.

An embedded Platform Services Controller (PSC) is the way to go in the future.

These figures determine your vCenter Server size. How many virtual machines and ESXi Hosts are going to be running underneath this vCenter Server.

Determine the correct sizing for your environment.

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Make sure that all third-party products are compatible like (Backup & Replication software / Storage vendor software).

This can be verified on the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices page.

Make sure that all connected/used VMware products are compatible like (vRealize Automation / vRealize Orchestrator / vRealize Operations Manager / VMware Horizon and the list goes on).

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Because you can choose to install, upgrade or migrate without looking at your current architecture but maybe it is time to update your current architecture (design). I have also added some design decision ideas. It’s about checking and validation your current software and hardware and talking to your vendors about compatibility. With the checklist, you can determine if your environment is ready for vSphere 6.7 Update 1. If you don’t have a plan before installing, migrating or upgrading things will turn out ugly…

The checklist items can be verified, days or hours before the initial deployment. This means a lot faster and better-responding interface and it removes the browser dependency and browser plug-in on your workstation. In the past it was a web-based wizard, with 6.7 it is a binary executable. If you are familiar with the VMware vCenter 6.5 graphical deployment it has been improved in VMware vCenter 6.7.

VMware vCenter is been become a lot quicker compared to his predecessor.

A fully working vSphere Client (HTML 5).

Why should you look at vSphere 6.7 you might ask? vSphere 6.5 is still running like a charm! Yes you are correct but… there are a couple of items to consider: Now that vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is available since the announcement on VMworld 2018 US, it is a good time to start looking at vSphere 6.7 instead of vSphere 6.5. I also added some guidelines for designing your environment.

The deployment is fully covered with all the additional notes required to perform a successful installation, migration or upgrade. In this blog post, we are going to deploy VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 1 in my Lab environment.