Designing a separate management cluster
The management components of a virtual environment can be resource intensive. If you are running vCenter and its dependencies as virtual machines in the same cluster as the cluster managed by the vCenter server, the resources required by the management infrastructure must be factored into the capacity calculations of the logical design. Creating a separate management cluster separates the resources required by the vCenter and other management components from the resources required by the applications hosted in the virtual infrastructure.
How to do it…
Management cluster best practices are as follows:
- CPU and memory resources to support management applications
- Multiple network interfaces and multiple physical ...
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