Hi,
We're going to put in a "active/active" SRM 5.1 deployment (half the protected VMs on each site - using the opposite site as their recovery site).
The vSphere 5.1 environment will be brand new too - so there is no SSO installed yet.
It seems that we need to use multisite SSO so that we can use "linked mode" vcenter servers with the C# client, and also add both vcenter servers to the Web Client environment. We don't want to have to authenticate to seperate vcenter servers for each site ;-)
Is anyone actually using multisite mode for SSO? I know you have to sync the SSO servers manually, but after initial configuration, nothing is really going to change with this. Also - it seems to me that the individual SSO servers are not even aware of each others existence - which makes the multisite environment not a whole lot different from a basic setup at each site. (functionally)
I know that a basic setup won't let me use linked mode for vcenter servers (with C# client) and I don't think you can add the "site B" vcenter server (with a basic SSO install) to the "site A" vcenter/sso server/web client enviornment.
So it sounds like multisite SSO is really the only option, when using multiple vcenter servers for SRM - and when a "single pane of glass" is required for managing the environment.
Does this sound right?