Design decisions for the management layer
In this section, we will discuss some of the key decisions involved in crafting the management layer design for your VMware vSphere infrastructure implementation, such as the following:
Identifying vCenter to be hosted either on a physical server or on the VM Server
Identifying vCenter to be hosted either on the Windows platform or VCA on the Linux platform
Identifying database server locations either on primary sites or remote sites
Configuration maximums to be considered
Let's get started straightaway with identifying decision-driving factors for installation and configuration.
Identifying whether vCenter will be hosted on a physical server or on VM Server
There is a long debate in the VMware blogs and community about whether we should install vCenter Server on a physical server or on VM. Let's take the case where we have a large enterprise that has some 200 ESXi hosts. For some reason, we have a serious outage. For example, we lose connectivity to LUN...
