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Yes, they will continue operating; you can log on to them directly (standalone) if needed to manage your VMs, or via RDP. VMs reside on ESX...vCenter is just a mgmt tool within vSphere.<br />
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Hope that helps.<br />
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Regards,<br />
~coolsport00<br />
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p.s. If your vCenter server fails, certain functions will be inoperational until you get vCenter back up and going -&gt; HA, DRS, VMotion.
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Yes, they will continue operating; you can log on to them directly (standalone) if needed to manage your VMs, or via RDP. VMs reside on ESX...vCenter is just a mgmt tool within vSphere.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
~coolsport00

p.s. If your vCenter server fails, certain functions will be inoperational until you get vCenter back up and going -> HA, DRS, VMotion.

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coolsport is correct. &nbsp;If you keep your SQL DB separately on a physical box you can re-install vCenter in matter of minutes on a XP workstaion or another server and reconnect the Database and be back in business
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coolsport is correct.  If you keep your SQL DB separately on a physical box you can re-install vCenter in matter of minutes on a XP workstaion or another server and reconnect the Database and be back in business

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Thanks guys.<br />
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Coolsport, i<br />
&quot;f your vCenter server fails, certain functions will be inoperational until you get vCenter back up and going -&gt; HA, DRS, VMotion.&quot;<br />
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----- Does that mean that all hose things won't be operational at all? We do have DRS and vMotion enabled on the servers.
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Thanks guys.

Coolsport, i
"f your vCenter server fails, certain functions will be inoperational until you get vCenter back up and going -> HA, DRS, VMotion."

----- Does that mean that all hose things won't be operational at all? We do have DRS and vMotion enabled on the servers.

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HA will work without vCenter you just can't manage it.
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HA will work without vCenter you just can't manage it.

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ESX 4.0<br />
If my vCenter server fails then will ESX hosts (4 of them in a cluster) will continue operating as it should?<br />
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What would be the impact of broken vCenter on the existing ESX infrastructure?<br />
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ESX 4.0
If my vCenter server fails then will ESX hosts (4 of them in a cluster) will continue operating as it should?

What would be the impact of broken vCenter on the existing ESX infrastructure?



vCenter

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.