What is the best location of vcenter in my scenario

Hello

I need a tip for the best placement of vCenter and root DC.

New installation: 2 ESXi, VMware ESX. Currently 2 DCs, AD 2003 vm. There are the new 2008 physical dedicated server for backup with Ribbon attached.

BackupExec software is not yet installed.

1. what will be the best placement of vCenter. Server backup that should be running BackupExec software or virtual machine?

2. it is advisable for all to place vCenter with BackupExec (with SQL server) on the physical machine?

3 - is a good idea to assign the role of DC (2008 AD) on a physical server with BackupExec?

Please specify each response with advantages and disadvantages.

Thank you.

Michael.

If you have no license limitation, I suggest to have dedicated VM for DCs, DHCP and vCenter Server.

DNS servers can stay with the domain controllers.

On your backup server, you can have a physical DC on it (I see this solution several times).

But if you virtual AD leasts two DC on different hosts, so it isn't really needed.

On vCenter in virtual, see also:

http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-11197

André

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