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Enthusiast
‎10-09-2009 11:46 AM

Install VUM on same virtual machine as vCenter4?

I am building our new vSphere4 enviornment. Currently vCenter 4 is running on a windows 2008 64-bit vm, 2vcpu, 4GB ram. We will have a total of 18-20 vSphere 4 hosts in three locations (centrally managed) after all is said and done. I have yet to install VUM. They wil be in seperate SQL 2005 SP2 databases on a seperate SQL DB vm. Best practice recommends to "seperate both the VUM server host and the VUM database from the VirtualCenter server and the VirtualCenter database when there are 1000+ virtual machines or 100+ hosts".

For 500+ vms and 50+ hosts, VMware recommends to seperate the VUM database from the VirtualCenter database. Is anyone running both VC and VUM on the same vm with Windows 2008 64-bit? We have or vSphere 4 running on our newly aquired Dell m1000 bladecenter. The ESX hosts are Dell PE M610 and M710 blades Intel Xeon E5540 2.53GHz Nehalem. The M610s have 6 pnics and the M710s have 12 pnics. we are also purchsing a Cisco 3130 switch for the blade.

Any opinions on this?

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krowczynski
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎10-09-2009 11:50 AM

Hi,

installing VUM on the same machine as vcenter is no problem.

But doing so should not be done, if you have more than 5 ESX hosts.

SO if you can install an VUM separaretly.

MCP, VCP

MCP, VCP3 , VCP4
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