hi all,
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current prod. environment:
License level: Enterprise
8x Dell Hosts on ESX4.1U2 (fat classic esx);
1x virtual vcenter 4.1U2 (win 2008 R2)
1x virtual center SQL (win 2008 R2)
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We are soon migrating our environment to v 5.5U1 and I am now thinking about deploying a VCSA rather than keeping using Windows for vcenter.
My understanding is that VCSA does NOT support linked mode (we do not have nor will have in the foreseeable future), does NOT support vCentre Heartbeat (we do not have and I do not think the business will require or spend money on this). For patching I normally SSH into the host and push the patches manually rather than using VUM, therefore an extra Windows machine may not be needed anyway. Moreover we would lose historical data as we cannot migrate the SQL DB to the VCSA (as of today anyway).
I also believe I cannot use the "Inventorysnaphot" fling to take a snaspho config of our vCenter4.1 and import on the VCSA.
Therefore: Do I need to take note of all vCenter config (Cluster settings, Folders, ResourcePools, Alarms, etc); deployed the VCSA and then recreate the settings?
I would appreciate your comments...
Regards