Moving vcenter to virtual....

[VCP2009]

I'm looking for some advice on if we should move our vcenter server from a physical to a virtual and any concerns with virtualizing this. The goal is to consolidate a data center of 12+ racks down to two racks with virtualizing everything that is possible to virtualize.

Thanks in advance for the responses.

[Troy_Clavell]

Running VirtualCenter in a Virtual Machine is fully supported and works quite well.

Here's a good KB article on moving your vCenter instance

[jrenton]

We have had Virtual Centre running in production for a while now without any issues.

One bonus is you get the protection of HA if you virtualise it.

[VMvareUpgrade]

That would be very funny if it was not possible to run Virtual Center Server on a Virtual Machine.

It would be like the hospital which says to the charity, please don't come see us.

Off course that is possible to move your Virtual Center Server on a Virtual Machine.

|The Best Guy

|MSc in IT, University of Evry

|MCSE(Microsoft), CCA(Citrix)

|Paris-France

[malaysiavm]

Virtual center on VM is always work but do expect some slow performance versus physical server after virtualize, I also not sure why, but it is still acceptable.

Craig

vExpert 2009

Malaysia VMware Communities -

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to vCenter Server Forum.

Best regards,

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