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VMware vCenter Cookbook

By : Kostantin Kuminsky
Book Image

VMware vCenter Cookbook

By: Kostantin Kuminsky

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vCenter Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Protecting the vCenter VM


As your environment grows, vCenter becomes a critical management tool, which raises the requirement for it to be highly available.

When vCenter is not available, the environment doesn't go down because all the core functionality is still there. All VMs will still be running; HA and FT will continue to function.

Note

Also, it's important that all hosts and guests continue to function only for 14 days. After this grace period, critical functionality, such as powering on ESXi hosts or starting VMs, will cease to operate.

What will be lost is the ability to perform a lot of administrative tasks that are not available without vCenter such as:

  • vMotion and Storage vMotion

  • HA and FT configuration

  • DRS manual tasks

  • DRS recommendation generation

  • Deploying VMs from a template

  • Resource availability information updates for HA

  • Issuing new licenses to hosts

How to do it...

As you can see, these are important administrative tasks, which, in case of any issues with your environment, may become...