Did you know the vCenter ISO contains everything you need to complete a fully automated installation of the vCenter VCSA appliance? This is great for homelabbing or even for production deployment. I performed this test using the latest build of vCenter at the time of writing (8.0U3i) but the principal should work with older and newer builds. Lets have a look at the steps required. Assumptions. This guide assumes you already have an ESXi host up and running to deploy the VCSA

In the new Broadcom licensing model, you must license a minimum of 16 cores per socket, then additionally, license every core above that...