I am running 3 hosts with ESXi 5.5 and vCenter Appliance 5.5, now i wish to setup a VDS for all 3 machine but was wondering if i really needed to put my vCenter Appliance on the virtual distributed switch?
The current vCenter app resides on a vSwitch on the first machine with it's own vmnic , four different VMnic will be used on the VDS using LACP and Link Aggregation Group
Thanks
Hi,
IMO, with DVS the management overhead related creating and configuring virtual machine portgroup is reduced. If your you VCVA is on the same network as rest of your VM or Infra VMs then to ensure that the same portgroup is available on other ESXi hosts for seamless vMotion I would migrate the VCVA on DVS. However if there arent many VMs on the network that VCVA uses then you might consider keeping the VCVA VM on vSS but make sure that a portgroup with the same name exists on other hosts so that the VM can be vMotioned to other hosts.
-f10
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About VMware Virtualization on NetApp
It is not a requirement to keep vCenter appliance on VDS.