Designing vCenter Server for redundancy

For a better performing vSphere Infrastructure, you need to think about the redundancy of your vCenter Server. So, the question is how would you provide redundancy for your vCenter Server?

Well, this decision can be taken based on certain criteria and those are:

1. How much down time you can tolerate?

2. What is your desired level of failover automation for vCenter Server?

3. What is your budget for maintaining the availability method?

There are a couple of redundancy methods which are available for both your Windows based vCenter Server and Linux based vCenter Server Appliance. However, VMware recommends using HA to protect your vCenter Server Appliance.

If you choose a Windows based vCenter Server then you can choose for third party clustering software such as Microsoft Cluster Service as well to provide redundancy.

Note

VMware does not certify these third-party solutions. VMware will offer best effort support for any issues encountered with an environment that uses...