second VC

[kpawelk]

Hi All,

I have question if is it possible to connect a second VC to existing one.

I have VC 2.5 and two ESX servers. For security reason I would like to have two VC.

If is it possible please give to me some clue.

Thanks,

Pawel

[Rockapot]

You can use MSCS clustering to provide resilience (www.vmware.com/pdf/VC_MSCS.pdf)

Can you give us some more information. You mention you need to do this for security, or do you mean resilience?

Carl

[kpawelk]

Hi Carl,

Yes, when I said about security I mean about resilience, just in case if the first VC die the second one take control over. But I would like to install second VC as a VM box.

Thanks for the link, I will go through it.

Regards,

Pawel

[NTurnbull]

Hi Pawel, if your VC database is on a separate SQL server then you could just do a p2v (VMware Converter for example) of the physical and keep the VM powered off until you need it - You'd have to re-run the p2v process to keep the VC versions in-line.

Thanks,

Neil

[weinstein5]

An ESX host can not be part of two virtual center environments at the same time - the only thing you could do is have the each ESX server belong to a single VC but that would prevent you from using VMotion, HA and DRS - as the poster if your are worried about availability MSCS or virtualizes your VC server and rely on HA since it will still function even with VC down

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