I am doing an installation of SRM into an existing ESX environment. At the moment I have my original VC called VC4 which has 12 ESX hosts split across two Datacentres. Storage is presented from the two Data Centres to all ESX hosts and replicated between Data Centres.
I have installed a second VC called VC20 in mixed mode. I had initially understood that mixed mode would allow the VC20 server to use the resources in VC4, however this does not seem to be the case.
I need to confirm that for me to proceed with the configuration that I either need to configure additional ESX hosts into VC20 which will allow me to proceed with resource mappings or would I be better reallocating resources from my existing VC4 server and move 6 of the ESX servers to VC20 and leave 6 against VC4, effectively separating my Data Centres.
Also, what are the benefits of mixed mode installation for Virtual Centre.