Hello
we are using vsphere 5.5 standard with vcenter appliance. We are running on HP servers with HP storage.
We have a two small esxi clusters - one of two hosts called "dmz" the other of 3 hosts called "core". There is stand alone esxi system not part of the cluster and planned not to be managed by vcenter.
I want vcenter to run on the "core" cluster for higher availability of the service. HA, Vmotion to another host during hardware maintenance etc.
A colleague is uncomfortable running vcenter on a system that is managed by itself and want to run vcenter on the stand alone single host.
Im looking for validation that running vcenter in a cluster that is managed by itself is pretty normal and has benefits. Pointers to any best practice documents or standard configurations would be very useful.
Note: We do have a VMs in RHEL cluster with vmware fencing, ie cluster members are fenced by reboot via login to vcenter.
Thanks in advance