Tuesday, March 22, 2011

vCenter management over WAN links

Traffic that heads through vCenter in a WAN vSphere architecture:

- vUM patches
- Template Clones (that live in one location that you are deploying in another)
- virtual console
- linking virtual CDs

Some tips with syncing options listed here: Drink Me

While PHD's free patch downloader can help with lack of local vUM.

Other than connecting locally to the ESX(i) server that is hosting the VM, I don't see another way around virtual console access.

I'll update if I come across anything else.