Planning and Designing a vCenter Server Deployment
vCenter Server is a critical application for managing your virtual infrastructure. Its implementation should be carefully designed and executed to ensure availability and data protection. When discussing the deployment of vCenter Server and its components, the following questions are among the most common questions to ask:
- How much hardware do I need to power vCenter Server?
- How do I provide high availability for vCenter Server?
- How do I prepare vCenter Server for disaster recovery?
- If I run vCenter Server in a VM, do I need a separate management cluster?
- Should I use a vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller or with an external Platform Services Controller?
Many of the answers to these questions are dependent on each other, but we have to start somewhere, so let's start with the first topic: figuring out how much hardware you need for vCenter Server.
Sizing Hardware for vCenter Server
The amount of hardware...
