Attempting to consolidate 13 PCs scattered about the house into two headless Supermicro 846 chassis (SM) w/ dual Xeon E5-2620 v2 fresh bought off ebay for homelab/media etc.
I've installed esxi 6.7u3b onto each chassis. Converted my copies of Server 2012 & 2016 to rufus usb and loaded them onto a vCenter Custom Library(CL) intending to setup dual AD, DNS, DHCP to address networking first. It asked for a datastore to host the CL, so I placed it on SM1. I can see the CL content on SM1 but it is unavailable on SM2. Publishing made no difference.
Further research seems to indicate that there must be a vCenter installed separately on each esxi host in order for both to access the CL. Is this so? It seems absurd.
It seemed the whole idea of HA/clustering was based on having a single vCenter administration. Also, I was hoping to stay within the constraints of VMUG and thought only 1 vCenter Instance was allowed.
Or is this a downside of not having a network storage or shared storage and being hyperconverged as it were?
I've installed esxi 6.7u3b onto each chassis. Converted my copies of Server 2012 & 2016 to rufus usb and loaded them onto a vCenter Custom Library(CL) intending to setup dual AD, DNS, DHCP to address networking first. It asked for a datastore to host the CL, so I placed it on SM1. I can see the CL content on SM1 but it is unavailable on SM2. Publishing made no difference.
Further research seems to indicate that there must be a vCenter installed separately on each esxi host in order for both to access the CL. Is this so? It seems absurd.
It seemed the whole idea of HA/clustering was based on having a single vCenter administration. Also, I was hoping to stay within the constraints of VMUG and thought only 1 vCenter Instance was allowed.
Or is this a downside of not having a network storage or shared storage and being hyperconverged as it were?