After installation and configuration, another extremely important aspect we need to look at is the lifecycle management of VCM. VMware will keep on improving VCM, and to have those improvements implemented, we also need to invest our time to maintain the infrastructure we have built.
This is not just limited to VMware updates and upgrades but also to our own infrastructure changes; for example, relocating a datacenter might need us to change IP or we might have decided to change our Active Directory domain and we need to migrate our management servers to the newly created domain. All this falls under maintenance, and we will have a look what we can do for VCM.
Apart from this, we are managing our infrastructure, and it has its own lifecycle to manage; for example, once the server is decommissioned, we need to remove it from VCM, and after upgrading VCM, we need to upgrade VCM agents on the managed servers.
To manage VCM, we will have a support team; everyone does not need to have...