vCenter Location

[hugo.girard]

Hi,

I have not find best practices about vCenter location.

It is better that the vCenter is on an ESX not manage by the Nexus 1000v ?

On cisco documentations, logical figures show the  vCenter out of VEM but some cases studies migrate the vCenter on the Nexus 1000v.

can you help me to clarify this point.

Thanks

[Jeremy Waldrop]

It is really personal preference but my general recommendation is to place the ESXi managment vmkernel and vCenter on a standard vSwitch so that if there is an issue with the N1kv you don't lose management access. I also try to put SQL on the vCenter host so that there isn't another VM that it is dependent on.

[hugo.girard]

I have the same idea.

Thanks for your reply.