I'm new to vRealize and no training yet. Looking at upgrading from our 6.6.1 version to 7.0. I have deployed a new test 7.0 appliance and patched it. I'm wondering if I can monitor a production vCenter with the new test appliance while it is currently being monitored with the 6.6.1 production appliance without causing problems?
I believe you CAN do that, but in our environment it was recommended NOT to do that due to duplication of data & IOPs. We have 11 vCenters and over 700 Hosts. Depending on the size of your environment, you will want to consider that.
It is not a problem monitoring the same vcenter from multiple vrops instances. We have a capacity instance and a alerting instances monitoring the same 20 vcenters for the last two years with no problems. You can only register one instance of vrops plugin with the vcenters
