vMA for ESXi on each host??

[tlyczko]

Do I install the vMA appliance (and any other related management appliances) upon EACH ESXi host??

I haven't found anything that explains this...or I have looked in all the wrong places so far

Thank you, Tom

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

Hello.

Do you have a cluster with DRS, HA and multiple hosts, or single hosts? If you have a cluster, then just set up one vMA and let HA and DRS take care of it. Otherwise, it might make sense to have multiple deployed, in case you lose a single host.

Good Luck!

[tlyczko]

We have a 3-node cluster with HA and DRS so I could install 2 vMA, then use 1 of the two vMA as the primary vMA...it may be a mixed environment, 1 ESXi, 2 ESX, time will tell.

Another way I thought of was 1 vMA within each host's local storage that was previously used by ESX Service Console etc., I plan to run ESXi from USB.

[tietzjd25]

vMA server is good for up too 100 hosts, place it on your cluster and you will be set to go.

Use vMA for PowerCli, Logs and many other goodies.