I manage three different Active Directory forests. These were setup many years ago, they are three separate (private) companies, but all owned by the same CEO.
Well now it's 2014 and I am looking at vCenter. Presently I have the Essentials version of vCenter which is limited to three hosts, and I'm learning to use it at HQ. Ultimately I'd like vCenter Standard, and be able to manage the ESXi hosts at the other companies. I don't have my vCenter integrated with AD at the moment - I'm just using the vsphere.local default. As I am reading about enabking AD-integration with vCenter, it's looking like I have a problem. The hosts in the other domains/forests don't have the same domain in their FQDN.
Seems like this will prevent me from using AD-integration since I have more than one domain. But I should still be able to manage them all in one vCenter if I use vsphere.local, right?