Verify before installing vSphere 6.7 and review the Release Notes and Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.7 KB.
If an external database is used it should be Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 or above, or Oracle 11g or 12c.For environments with up to 20 hosts and 200 VMs the bundled internal PostgreSQL database can be used.
The operating system should be 64 bit and Windows Server 2008 SP2 or above.VCenter 6.7: Download | Release Notes | What’s New | VMware Docs | vSphere Central Software Considerations This post gives a walk through on a clean installation of vCenter Server 6.7 on Windows Server 2016.
All future releases will only be available in VCSA form, if you have not already started planning migration to VCSA see vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 Install Guide and Migrating Windows vCenter Server to VCSA 6.7.
It should be noted that vCenter 6.7 is the final release where Windows modules will be available, see here for more information.
The vCenter Server is a centralised management application and can be deployed as a virtual appliance or Windows machine. VMware vCenter Server pools ESXi host resources to provide a rich feature set delivering high availability and fault tolerance to virtual machines. Finally, the Windows vCenter Server and external PSC deployment models are now depreciated and not available with vSphere 7.0. Upgrade to vSphere 7 can be achieved directly from vSphere 6.5.0 and above, for more information see the VMware Upgrade Matrix. VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 reaches end of general support 15 October 2022, both referenced in the VMware Lifecycle Matrix.