UCS Central and where to install

[russ.givens]

I'm looking at the UCS Central documentation for the first time because I'm interested in setting it up.  I see that it only comes in the form of a virtual appliance.  Reading the documentation it says not to put the UCS Central virtual machine within a UCS domain.  I'm confounded by the fact that my entire virtual infrasturcture runs within UCS and that this management software only comes as a virtual appliance.  Now I have to setup another ESXi cluster outside of UCS just to run this software.   Has anybody else run into this issue?  I'm not keen on the idea of having to setup another ESXi cluster just to run this.                 

[Robert Burns]

Russ,

This is just a best practice/recommendation.  Since ucsCentral is a management application we're recommending to host within the scope of your other management devices.  We have many customers who don't run a separate/segregated management domain and who chose to run ucsCentral on the UCS domains it manages.  There's no probem with this technically.  It's a similar recommendation to running your vCenter on an ESX host it manages.  Personally I have no issues with this myself and most customers deploy this way, but in a best-practice world design suggests to keep it separated.

Regards,

Robert