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My VMware vCenter stores all its data in a SQL Server database. The database server resides on the same VM as vCenter itself. This means that vCenter is able to run independently of other servers, which seems like a good thing. However I am not 100% sure.

Can anyone outline the pros and cons of this approach, and if strongly in favour of something else, please share details.

I'm currently on ESX 3.5, but will shortly be upgrading to 4.1 - a point at which it seems a good idea to readdress the previous decision

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I'd be interested in this myself. This is the configuration that we're currently running to allow our environment to recover to a complete power failure, but I'd be interested in other opinions. – Evan M. Oct 19 '10 at 20:36

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Well the Pros include know g that a snapshot gets your VC and DB quieced together plus it should be pretty fast to a point (8 vCPUs max for all functions). Cons include that it'll be a little harder to separate functions in the future if you start hitting performance limits, it makes clustering your DB a little more fragile and any VM reboots will take longer as it'll have more to load. Otherwise why not, certainly if you have comparatively small environment (<100 hosts or so).

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