Should Virtual Center run as a Virtual Machine? (VM /ETC)

We run our VCenter within our ESX Farm. We also run the SQL server that VCenter runs off in the same ESX farm. We’ve had no issues with VCenter in this configuration. But we do have to be careful with the SQL Server.

Sure, you can run Virtual Center Management Server as a Virtual Machine. VMware supports it and has published a technical note about doing it – http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vc_in_vm.pdf. A lot of companies have built their VC2 server this way, but is it really wise to have “the manager” of the environment running in the environment it is [...]

Should Virtual Center run as a Virtual Machine? (VM /ETC)
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:31:32 GMT

[tags]vmware, sql[/tags]

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