Best practice: VSphere on VM or physical server?

[OVMorat]

Hello,

I've been running ESXi Free for a year or so on a couple of hosts and have taken the plunge to buy Essentials Plus and Veams Backup.

I see that Vsphere Server can be installed on a VM, but is that a good idea if I want to take advantage of vMotion? I can't quite get my head round vMotion working if the host running the vSphere server VM has a problem.

thanks

Miles

[AntonVZhbankov]

You can run vCenter in VM, it is fully supported configuration.

You can vMotion vCenter VM, all will work fine.

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[ScottBentley]

Also with Essentials Plus you will have the additional benefit of the vCenter server being protected by HA in the event of a host failure by having it as a VM rather than a physical server.

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[OVMorat]

So really I should prefer a VM over a physical server for vsphere in essentials plus? This virtualisation stuff is twisting my head

[ScottBentley · Accepted solution]

vCenter as a VM will give you all of the benefits normally associated with virtualisation, portability etc, regardless of the licencing model, I personally alway use a VM for vCenter. I only mentioned Essentials Plus as it has the ability to run HA (assuming you will be configuring it)

Regards,

Scott

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