vCenter in a MSCS Windows Cluster

[abugeja]

Hi,

Looking at deploying vcenter in a Windows MSCS Cluster using vcenter 6.0 update 2 on physical hardware. Has anyone here done this before and can point me to some good documentation?

Thanks,

Adam

[npadmani]

I haven't done it myself.

But if you take a quick look at following document

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vcenter-server-6.0-availability-guide.pdf

Page 17 onwards there's a step-by-step guide, that might be of your help

[abugeja]

Ive seen this article before but it only talks about doing MSCS on a virtual machine. I'm looking at doing it on physical servers.

[Nick_Andreev]

This may help:

How to install and configure highly available (cluster) VMware vCenter on WSFC? | Settlersoman - A s...

[abugeja]

Having a look over the doco and please correct me if im wrong. If you are using virtual machines with WSFC they require RDM/Local Disk. So the virtual machines still need to be located in the same environment.

I am looking for data centre high availability. So if we drop a data centre we still have vcenter up and running at our other data centre. I'm wanting to use a WSFC using a GEO cluster and the disk is replicated on the array. We have this configuration on our SQL Clusters so if we do have network/storage or environmental issues at one data centre all our clusters will failover....

[Nick_Andreev]

Isn't deploying a second vCenter at the second datacenter and connecting the two using Linked Mode an alternative solution here?

[abugeja]

sorry for the late reply on this. From my research on this earlier in the year the link mode is also a single point of failure. the vcenter MSCS is the best form of HA.