Comments on: VirtualCenter, run it on physical or virtual?

By: Kenny Alaniz

Kenny Alaniz — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:53 +0000

We currently run our VC on a VM as well and its works great. Question is that, the Tomcat process utilizes a high amount of memory… any thoughts on that?

By: TimC

TimC — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:59:27 +0000

So I’ve stuck one of our vCenter servers in a virtual machine. This appears to be the only one having an issue. When you edit a virtual machine on the ESX server managed by this vCenter, even if you don’t change anything, when you click ok, it goes to “reconfigure virtual machine”: this process takes 5+ minutes. Don’t know if the two are related or not, have you ever seen anything similar?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:14:55 +0000

Thank you for posting this blog and the VMware link.
I am working on a new VMware ESX setup for my agency and I was going to go physical but after reading this I will go virtual for it.
With sufficient UPS protection and our relatively small cluster (2 hosts, maybe 3) I don’t expect any major crashes that could screw up the SQL database, and I will have backups of this VM anyway.
Thank you, Tom

By: Roger Lund

Roger Lund — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:30:55 +0000

Nice write up, this is something we will be looking at, and I have been told that virtual is the way to go, for the reasons above.

Roger L

http://rogerlunditblog.blogspot.com/

By: Steve Chambers

Steve Chambers — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:51:44 +0000

Nice blog, Dave!

We had the same “physical or virtual?” discussion over on VIOPS – http://viops.vmware.com/home/message/1359

We also ran a poll to see who was running VC on physical/virtual – http://viops.vmware.com/home/poll.jspa?poll=1014

The result was… it was a split – VC in a VM 53%, VC on Physical 47%…

:-)

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:24:13 +0000

It’s a best practice to disable DRS for the VC. That way you will always know where the VC VM resides in case of a multiple node isolation response for instance or a complete power down. other wise you will have to look on every single node to find the one where it was registered last.

But I completely agree, run it virtual! And with the upcoming vCenter Appliance you can bet on it that this will be the future!