Hi All
Question on VUM for vSphere 6.
Our environment is
Windows Server 2008 R2 with vCentre 5.0 using SQL 2008 Standard - Live Server (configured with all hosts) with VUM install, VUM on a seperate DB
Windows Server 2012 R2 with vCentre 6.0 using SQL 2012 Standard - Will become new server soon (no hosts currently added)
As a department we made the decision to go to vSphere 6. Currently I have setup a new VM and the vCentre part of it is installed alongside SQL Server 2012 Standard. I have opted to install vCentre with the Embedded platform services controller. As we are only a small to medium size organisation I was wondering if there is a better way around this? We have 5 hosts and approx 150 VMs and unlikely to grow this as our hosts have plenty of resource both in terms of CPU and memory and have been recently commissioned.
I have now got up to the Update manager component but have a few questions regarding VUM for vSphere 6.
Am I right in saying we now need 2 separate servers to administer VUM? One has the Update Manager Server role and the other needs to just have the download service? Both services cannot sit on the same server?
For VUM can I also use a separate DB on the existing SQL 2012 standard server rather than an embedded SQL express DB. This is the setup I had when we had 4.0 and 5.0 and it worked well.
How are others using VUM with the non appliance version of vCentre?
Thanks