Datacenter/vCenter/vSphere

[pavlouc]

Hi, I'm in the middle of my first big project with vmware, I've installed two Ibm x5 hosts with essential plus licenses, these are connected to a Netapp SAN through ISCSI, I've configured the datastores and have connected them in VSphere. My question is, for VMHA, I cannot use VSphere to manage the hosts, do I need to use vCenter for this? do I then just point vsphere to the vcenter IP to be able to view and configure VMHA? I've licensed both hosts and VMHA is a licensed feature.

Do I need to use vCenter or can I just use a differnet client other than VSphere to manage these hosts as a "datacenter"....at present I have to connect to each host individually.

thanks

[jamesbowling · Accepted solution]

Correct, instead of connecting to the hosts, you would connect your vSphere Client to vCenter.  vCenter is required for HA to function.

[pavlouc]

thanks for confirming!

Will be going through this on Monday with some confidence now.

[jamesbowling]

No problem.  If you run into anything then please let us know and we will try our best to help you through it.