vSphere 5.5: Managing an individual host while attached to vCenter?

BlizzardX

BlizzardX

BlizzardX

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Hi,

Is it possible to attach a host to vCenter for clustering and other multi-host based activities, but then for specific things (PCI passthrough which won't work in vCenter for me) load up the C# client in Windows and then play with the settings and make them stick? Currently, if I try to make a change in the C# client, it won't hold and errors out saying that vCenter has effective control.

I haven't found the setting in vCenter yet so any assistance, if this does indeed exist, would be great.

Thanks,

Chris
 
Nope, that won't work as its managed by vCenter; however I never read the option that came up... If I connect to the IP of the vCenter server, I get vCenter in the windows client!

Now, I've created a new VM and passed the devices through and the errors I was getting have now disappeared! Just waiting for the VM to boot to confirm.
 
I suspect vCenter won't have it because it makes no sense to have pass-through in a multi-host situation, as vMotion or even DRS placement wouldn't work?
 
BlizzardX said:
You can, but it doesn't appear to keep the settings that I've made, anywho looks like I've solved my issues.
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You connect a host to vCenter so it is managed by it, you should NOT be connecting directly to a host. Any changes should be made while connected to vCenter and you should not be using the client, everything has moved to the web.

Certain changes you make while connected directly to a host may change or become invalid if the host is still connected to vcenter.
 
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