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MrVmware9423
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SSO High Availibilty

Dear Team,

I have one site in that have one SSO server (VC, Inventory and SSO all are installed on different VM ), on mothly basis I m taking clone of SSO VM on another ESXI host, just want to know if running SSO VM dies and I poweredon cloned SSO VM and connect the same on a network will it work or not.

Need ur urgent assistance on the same.

regards

Mr VMware

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bayupw
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Hi

It should work.

As per vCenter 5.5 Deployment guide, "The recommended approach for deploying vCenter Server in almost all scenarios involves a single virtual machine for the vCenter Server components and a separate virtual machine for the vCenter Server database."

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The recommendation (soft recommendation) to centralize SSO+Web Client is when you have more than 8 vCenter servers.

When to Centralize vCenter Single Sign-On Server 5.5 | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

"There can be increased risk when centralizing a vCenter Single Sign-On server (to why it is not recommended for smaller environments) due to the increased number of components affected if the vCenter Single-Sign-On server was to become unavailable, in short all vCenter Server components of all vCenter Servers registered will incur authentication loss (when compared to  just the single vCenter Server instance when installed locally) and so availability of the vCenter Single Sign-On centralized server(s) is highly recommended."

With single VM hosting SSO+WebClient+Inventory Service+vCenter Server. It would be easier for you to manage, backup, etc.

Do you have HA license in your vSphere environment?
HA should help you to restart SSO VM when the SSO VM dies.

Bayu Wibowo | VCIX6-DCV/NV
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MrVmware9423
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Thanks Bayu,

yes we have HA, my concern is if SSO VM crash (BSOD, unable to boot , failed to repair) then how we will authenticate with VC.

What will be the work around???

Note : we have installed all component in different VMs (SSO in VM1, Inventory in VM2, vCenter in VM3, Database in VM4)

regards

Mr VMware

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