Introduction

vCenter Server is evolving into a virtualization platform providing the necessary management framework to deliver the needs of today's virtualization administrators. So, you need to be very careful in taking decisions while designing your vCenter and management platform, which will have performance factors integrated as well. In this chapter we will talk about various decision making factors for vCenter platform, vCenter DB platform and its location, and the effect of this as well. We will also talk about the resilient and secure management framework design using vCenter Heartbeat and Certificates.

We will also touch base with some advanced management features and its effect on vCenter Server designs for your high performing vSphere Infrastructure, such as Auto Deploy and SSO.