One VCenter to manage Server and Desktop Farm

[ziof3ster]

Hi,

I'm involved in an brand new project with a server and view farm to rebuild

The server will be using VMWare 5 technology, the View solution will be 4.6 running on ESXi 4.1

The question is, it is possible have 1 vCenter (ver 5) managing the Server Farm (running on ESXi 5) and the View farm (running on ESXi 4.1).

Anyone got experience or can redirect to some documentation ?

Thanks a lot

ziof3ster

[kgsivan]

It is very much supportable. vCenter 5.0 supports legacy ESX boxes too.

you can use below online tool to check the compactibility

http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php?

[ziof3ster]

Hi SKG,

thanks for your reply that addressed one of my concerns.

The other is, from View perspective, is ok use the same vCenter for both environments? There are concerns/experiences in the community of a single vCenter managing 2 the desktop and server farms (not in linked mode).

Thanks

ziof3ster

[kgsivan]

You can.. no issues. Only thing is that you should not mix-up different ESX verions in a single cluster.

Keep each esx versions in separate cluster or, If you can Isolate different ESX versions in separate daatacenter in a VC then nothing like that.

[gunnarb]

+1 on SKG's response, he is spot on.