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lvaibhavt
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How to create a secondary Virtual Center

Hi All,

I am not sure what to do in below scenario.

My Virtual Center is Physical Machine with 20GB of RAM and works well. What if -- if the machine goes down; can I create a backup Virtual Center via which I can manage my virtual envirounment?

Or should I do in such a case .

Any suggestions

Thanks

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amvmware
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You have various options - depends on what you want to spend or how important vCenter availability is to your business..

1. Use vmware converter to do a P2V of the vcenter server as a powered off VM and once a month redo it - cheap and cheerful approach but the copy is out of synch with the live vcenter server.

2. vCenter heartbeat will run a synched copy on another host - expensive.

3. Use a P2V tool like Powerconvert that allows you to create a VM copy of the live vCenter server and then resync it on a scheduled task.

Why does the vcenter server need 20Gb of RAM ?

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