Installing the vCAC 6 IaaS component doesn’t have to be hell.

Yesterday I pretty much spent a whole day attempting to install the IaaS component of vCAC 6. I’d referred to Jad El-Zien’s guide and Kendrick Coles post on the topic. I must have tried 20 times before I got it right so here are my tips to getting installed without errors on a Windows 2008 R2 Server:

• Install the vCAC VA and Identity VA as per Jad or Kendricks instructions found HERE and HERE
• Make sure when installing the above appliances that you have static IPs and DNS is solid
• Install a VM with Windows 2008 R2 SP1
• Don’t use IP6 and make sure you use a static IP address and the hostname can be resolved
• Update the VM with windows updates BUT DO NOT INSTALL .NET FRAMEWORK 4.5.1
• Reboot and restart windows update again and keep doing this until there are no updates left expect .Net Framework 4.5.1
• Browse to https://FQDN of vCAC VA:5480/Installer and download and install .Net framework 4.5
• Download the powershell script to prepare the IaaS server to speed up a lot of the steps mentioned in Jad’s guide found HERE
• Reboot
• Browse to https://FQDN of vCAC VA:5480/Installer and download and install setup for vCAC IaaS server as per Jad’s instructions
• And you should be good to go

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