I have over 100 sites across the USA. All have decent bandwidth connectivity back to the HQ. I am fairly new to VMware, but have a long IT background.
Someone decided to roll out vCenter Appliances at each site or maybe just a few. That seems crazy. vCenter is for central admin, right?
My thinking is that we should have one full vCenter install in windows at the HQ that manages the rest, maybe a better plan would be to run one in the east and one in the west and link them.
This project has not started yet, but I believe it is going to start soon.