vCenter 2.5 best practice

[hudsonmanx]

We have two HP DL380G5s with ESX server 3.5i and have, one physical server HP DL360G5 with Windows 2003 R2 64-Bit as our primary domain controller, currently vCenter is setup within virtual machine however it seems to be a bit on the slow side.

I am considering moving vCenter onto the physical server, I wondered what the best practice is can vCenter go onto a DC?

We wont be accessing it from outside our office, we access over VPN.

Any comments and recommendations would be gratefully received.

Thanks.

[krowczynski]

Dont put hr vcenter on your DC, it is best practice to haver the vcenter clean.

WHy have you performance problems, how s the vm configured?

[krowczynski · Accepted solution]

For future if yo want to upgrade to vcenter4.

http://goingvirtual.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/vcenter-4-on-a-domain-controller-not-supported/

MCP, VCP

[hudsonmanx]

Thanks for your response, will probably buy a cheap physical server to run it on.

[pramodupadhyay5]

yeah u can do so but u might face some problems..

for more details check http://communities.vmware.com/thread/207703

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[krowczynski]

But why you want to buy an seperate server for it.

What are you problems with the vm??

MCP, VCP

[hudsonmanx]

It just generally slow despite the vcenter server having 2GB ram etc.

[krowczynski]

What kind of storage?

And even if yu buy a cheaf server e.g. with SATA HDD, it will not be faster!

MCP, VCP

[pramodupadhyay5]

what do u mean by slow ?// what kind of performance problems are u facing..

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[hudsonmanx]

We've got HP MSA2000 iSCSI.

[pramodupadhyay5]

try to increase the cache size of the storage this might sometimes solves the slow disk access problems......

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