If you haven't given a good look at the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) since version 5.5, it's time to do so. The vCSA has a good use case and increased scale compared to previous editions.
One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly. Last year when I wrote 10 Steps to Setting Up vCenter ...
Last weekend we shutdown our 2 node VMWare ESXi cluster, managed by vCenter Server Appliance 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350 (which uses the embedded DB2 database). There was some building work going on and ...