vCenter Server 5 install in a virtual machine or not?

Hi all.

We have a health care environment small assisted living with a dozen sites/servers

A server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.

We received two new servers ESXi installed 5. They will host several virtual machines of Windows Server for most of the migration of the current VMw4.

I want to install vCenter Server 5 to manage.

My book of VMware by Lowe, he mentions that install the vCenter server in a virtual machine has limits.

It mentions cold migration, cloning and editing material are not available.

He also mentions the considerations with the help of a distributed virtual switch.

Ufortunately that he won't go into details.

But there seems to be benefits such as the backup server and fast food when you use a virtual machine.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Hello

It is one of the common design decision. now VMware recommended is to use a virtual machine.

some of the benefits you can get are: -.

The vCenter Server system can be revived in a cluster of high availability of vSphere

VM resources CPU and memory can be easily resized. The vCenter Server system also benefits from vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster workload balancing.

You can easily save or create a virtual machine as needed.

him as a physical Machine will be some disadvantages such as:-

To ensure availability, you must purchase and use additional software such as vCenter Server Heartbeat or a third-party clustering solution.

You must properly size the physical machine's resources.

You must have a separate system and use imaging software to take a snapshot of a physical machine.

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