Should I install Vcenter for only 2 server?

klez0011 · March 2016

hello all
i am novice in Virtualization and hurry in training because i should install and config it very soon as it possible and my problem will become solve

I have only 2 server 2008 ( TMG Server , DC Server)
if i install ESxi with Vmclient Vshphere and config it ........ is it enough?
or no i should install Vcenter?

regard

scaredoftests · March 2016

I would think so. Its great experience trying that anyway.

klez0011 · March 2016

scaredoftests wrote: »

I would think so. Its great experience trying that anyway.

thanks for your reply but there is problem i haven't sufficient Resources

becasue of this reason i asked that.....so what is your idea?again continue or no ESXi enough?

tbgree00 · March 2016

If you have licensing for vCenter then deploy it for sure. If not I would still recommend deploying it in evaluation mode for a few months to dig around it in then try to get licensing when it helps you manage everything. Even if you don't have shared storage it can still be helpful to do cold migrations and only having one place to go for management.

If I understand correctly you have two physical Windows servers and you want to virtualize those? Or do you already have two ESXi hypervisor installs and one VM per host? If they are VMs did you configure those VMs with 100% of the ESXi host's resources? Did you spec the servers big enough to grow or just as few resources as you could get by with?

Unless you configured your TMG server and DC with all the physical ESXi host's resources you should be able to deploy a vCenter VM and do a simple install.

scott28tt · March 2016

I just replied on the thread you created on the Petri forum: https://www.petri.com/forums/forum/virtualization/vmware-virtualization/495816-should-i-install-vcenter-2-serevrs

Should I install Vcenter for only 2 server?

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