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From: Kelven Yang <kelven.yang@citrix.com>
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:34:27 -0700
Subject: RE: Joined vcenter servers with cloudstack
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas Monos [mailto:tamasm@veber.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:53 PM
> To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Joined vcenter servers with cloudstack
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> Hi,
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> I'm wondering whether anyone uses multiple vcenter servers in joined mode
> with Cloudstack.
> The reason I'm asking is every time I need to update the win2k8 servers
> is an outage and takes ages for the box to come back.
> As the management servers are in cluster I can update OS one by one but
> the vcenter box.
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> Would Cloudstack be confused if I added a the same cluster on a different
> vcenter management IP as well? So when one of the of offline it would
> talk to the other one as in joined mode you can manage other vcenter's
> assets.
> I'm not brave enough to test this in my production environment though.

I haven't tested with vCenter linked mode, but if the second vCenter is usi=
ng a different IP, I see it as an issue.

I would suggest you to try using DNS to do the trick, while you are maintai=
ning one vCenter server, make DNS point to the second one for CloudStack to=
 continue to work

Kelven


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> Regards
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