Today I received an email from my reader with question about converting/migrating vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with Embedded Platform Services Controller to the external PSC. Fortunately, since vSphere 6.0 U1, vCenter Server can be repointed from embedded to external PSC. I decided to write a post about it as it can be useful when you want to convert your VCSA or Windows vCenter to get better performance and scalability. You can build a highly available Platform Services Controllers based on external PSC only.

If you need to update your VCSA to 6.0 U1, please follow the below posts:

To convert VCSA please follow the below steps: