Regardless of the deployment option that's selected, the vCenter Server components must be installed and configured in a specific order, so that the service dependencies are met.
The order of installation of the vCenter Server components is as follows:
- Deploy the VMware Platform Services Controller (PSC)
- Deploy the vCenter Server
- Deploy the other supporting components: VMware Update Manager, the VMware Syslog Service, ESXi Dump Collector, and so on