Now that you've integrated vCenter with VMM, you can start adding the ESXi hosts that are to be managed by VMM.
The following is a list of some prerequisites and recommendations that need to be taken into account when adding VMware hosts to VMM 2016:
- The VMware vCenter Server that manages the ESXi hosts must already be configured and integrated with VMM.
- The host must be running a supported version of VMware vSphere. For more information, see Chapter 1, VMM 2016 Architecture.
- If encryption is required for communication between VMM and the vSphere hosts, a certificate and public key will be needed for each managed ESXi host.
- Although it is not a requirement, you can create a host group to organize the hosts (for example,
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). - As a best practice, create a Run As account with root credentials on the VMware ESXi hosts.