Seasons' Greetings to all.
Kind of a newbie here. This is for my lab environment.
I have always used the vCenter Server Simple Install option which also installs the bundled Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 Express edition.
Now, I am doing an eval of vSphere 5.1 and I want to manually setup a database server using Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.
I know how to do the Database Server install and get it up and running. But, I am not sure how exactly to setup a database for vCenter Server.
I looked at the vSphere Installation and Setup guide and I dont seem to be able to follow the Preparing vCenter Server Databases section, because I am not a Database person. Is there any other guide or a blog I can follow? I have searched alot, and could not find anything i was looking for. Thought I'd ask here.
Here here are the VMs I have.
lab-DC1 (Domain Controller)
lab-DC2 (Domain Controller)
lab-SQL1 (SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise)
lab-SQL2 (SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise - to later setup failover clustering)
lab-VC1(vCenter Server 1)
Any help appreciated!