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

[BlizzardX]

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

 

[BlizzardX]

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.

 

[BlizzardX]

You can, but it doesn't appear to keep the settings that I've made, anywho looks like I've solved my issues.