vCenter and SSO Requirements

Question 1

What are the requirements for SSO?

Answer 1

• An inventory and vcenter server (can be one server)
• 2 or more logical cores (2GHZ or faster)
• Memory 3GB RAM
• 2GB storage for vCenter, 60GB for Inventory Server
• 1GB NICs

Question 2

Features and Limitations of vCenter Server Appliance

Answer 2

• 5.0 Uses IBM DB2 Database
• Embedded PostGreSQL database for running up to 100 ESXi hosts and 3000 VMs (5.0.1 and later)
• External Oracle database option
• vCenter Linked Mode not available
• Microsoft SQL Server not available
• IPv6 not available

Question 3

Requirements for vCenter Server

Answer 3

• 2 CPUs
• 2 GHZ or higher CPU
• 4GB Minimum Memory
• 4GB Minimum Disk Storage
• 64-bit OS

Question 4

Requirements for separate inventory server

Answer 4

• 2 or more 64-bit processors
• 3GB Minimum Memory
• 6GB - 15GB of Disk Storage and up to 60GB

Question 5

Requirements for vCenter Server components installed on one server

Answer 5

• 2 or more 64 bit cores
• 2 GHZ - 12GB of RAM
• 100 GB (40 - 60 GB free)

Question 6

Requirements for vSphere Web Client

Answer 6

• 2GHz 64-bit processor with four cores
• 2GB of RAM
• 2GB of free space

Question 7

Requirements for vCenter Server Appliance

Answer 7

• 70GB free space on a datastore
• 8GB RAM with 10 > 100 h > vm
• 16GB of RAM with 50 > 1500 h > vm
• 24GB of RAM with 100 > 3000 h > vm