Is vCenter required to assoicate a VEM with a VSM

[d.laemmle]

I am just doing a simple setup and evaluation of the Nexus 1000V.

I have one vSphere machine with a VSM VM and the VEM installed on it.

But I don't see any way to associate the VEM with the VSM except though vCenter.

[dcasteli]

Absolutely...without vCenter you cannot add Hosts to the DVS,you cannot assign NICS to the port-profile,also vmware features like vmotion/drs will not work as those are vCenter triggered operations.However if your vCenter crashes/fails after the hosts are added to the DVS, the VEM will continue to forward traffic and the VSM-VEM comminication will not break

Thanks

Deepak

[d.laemmle]

Thanks,

It looked like that was the only way to do this.

We aren't a windows shop, so this reliance on Windows boxes and applications for

networking and VMware management was a bit frustrating.

I had hoped you might have a command line method to associate a VEM to a VSM,

specially iff they both were on the same VM Host.