Hi,
I am wondering if someone can guide me in the right direction:
Currently this is my enviroment: I have 2 different offices/Sites connected via the WAN. There is also small remote site with one ESXi host (5 vm's) not being managed by a Vcenter server.
Site 1
1 x Vcenter Server 5.0
4 x ESXi Hosts 5.0
40-45 Vm's
Site 2
1 x Vcenter Server 5.0
4 x ESXi Hosts 5.0
40-45 Vm's
I want to consolidate ( and at the same time upgrade to 5.1) the Vcenter so that I have one Vcenter instance manageing both Sites. Once the Vcenter is up and running I will then upgrade the Esxi Hosts with Update Manager.
My questions are:
- Would it be best to create a new 5.1 Vcenter Server as supposed to upgrading?
- What would I lose if i dont do an upgrade? Resource Pools? Switch Networks? Etc?
- Can the 2nd Vcenter in site 2 then serve as a backup/failover
- How Practical is it to have one Vcenter across Wan's ?
- What is the differences between Datacentres and Clusters? Do i create one Datacentre and multiple Clusters? or do I create Datacentre for each site and then the Cluster under each site?
- How will consoldating all of this affect my licensing?
- Can I do Storagemotion and Vmotion between the Sites if they are in one Vcenter?
Any help would be appreciated.
El.