We're finally moving towards upgrading from 4.1 to 5.1. I've been kicking the tires on the latest 5.1 vcenter appliance (SSO/AD auth are a PITA) and certainly like the idea of not managing another couple windoze VM's and SQL server to provide this service. Seems like the original intention of this thing was for small environments only, but now it appears that if you throw memory at it you can scale it just like vcenter server.
Anybody using it to manage medium to large farms of geographically disparate clusters?
What kind of database growth are you seeing with using the embedded DB2 DB?
3rd party plugin integration issues?
I understand that you must still run UM on its own Windoze box.
Please share your vcenter appliance success/horror stories/recommendations
Thanks for your time
Ron