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Figure 2, in vSphere 6, the Platform Services Controller can be used in each data center location. If the environment is larger, VMware recommends installing PSC on separate servers and have your vCenter servers connect to the PSC server pool.

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In a smaller environment, VMware suggests at up to eight vCenter servers, you would install PSC on the same server where you also install vCenter. The PSC is a distributed service that takes care of its own data synchronization, meaning there is redundancy in the platform by default. This will give administrators one platform to manage these core components for all VMware products. PSC will provide the functionality SSO offers, but it will also provide license services, certificate store services and other services, which will be added. The architecture will be similar, but with one or more embedded controllers or separately installed controllers for connecting to vCenter. In Figure 1, this screenshot from the vSphere 6 private beta shows the PSC is called Infrastructure Controller, but it will be named PSC when the product is released. Figure 1: This screen shows the deployment options for vCenter Server 6.0 showing the recommended settings when a certain number of products need to be managed.

To avoid this issue with the next version of vSphere, VMware announced PSC will be updated independently from vSphere before any products that depend on it are updated. That caused for problems when SSO was not up to date for the released product. With previous releases, SSO was updated with vSphere and some other products were using that as the authentication source. When you look closer at PSC, you can see VMware is moving in a good direction. The architecture of SSO has changed from version 5.1 to 5.5, which has caused upgrading issues for some customers. It replaces the current version of single sign-on (SSO) and has several new important services. Part of the next version of vSphere is a new service called Platform Services Controller (PSC). Hopefully, when VMware moves to HTML5 - which they have been talking about for a while - and when they can improve the performance of the Web Client, administrators will finally make the move to the new Web-based platform - where all other VMware products have gone.

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Administrators who upgrade to vSphere 6 would then be able to use the vSphere Desktop Client if they keep the VMs at hardware level 9 to keep read and write access to VMs. New functionality will not be added to the Windows-based client, but VMware will add support for managing hardware level 10 and 11 in read-only mode. VMware said the vSphere Desktop Client will be available in the new version of vSphere to allow connections to both an ESXi host and the vCenter Server.

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Another hindrance: The Web Client doesn't update the status of the inventory the way the vSphere Desktop Client does. Despite some great features that make life easier, administrators still have several issues with it. VMware has tried to move administrators from the vSphere Desktop Client to the Web Client, but has not been very successful.

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