The VMguy

This is a question I see come up periodically. Can I run one vCenter (VC) server and manage all of my remote ESX deployments from it? How much latency can VC take? What’s the minimum bandwidth for VC to run effectively?

An article by Desmond Chan was written back in September. I saw it on an internal Wiki but did not realize he had published it externally. It’s a good article describing what to consider if you only have a limited amount of bandwidth. The article describes some of the common administrative functions that are performed in VC on a daily basis and the amount of bandwidth they require. Definately some good reading if you need to manage ESX with VC over WAN links.  You can find the full article here .