In vCenter 6.0 with Platform Services Controller 6.0, I realize that the new "Enhanced Linked Mode" is enabled by default when you join a 2nd PSC/SSO node to an existing PSC/SSO domain. This is great when vCenter Standard Edition is used at both sites in a multisite setup. However, vCenter Essentials does not support Enhanced Linked Mode per VMware documentation:
"Enhanced Linked Mode requires the vCenter Server Standard licensing level, and is not supported with vCenter Server Foundation or vCenter Server Essentials."
My question is: In the case of the Primary Site running vCenter Standard, and the DR Site running vCenter Essentials, each with their own External Platform Services Controller, does VMware support joining the two Platform Services Controllers together into a single SSO domain? Or must they each be completely isolated into their own separate SSO domains? The reason I ask is that using products like vSphere Replication and SRM are much easier when both sites are joined to the same SSO domain (fewer pop-ups asking for credentials). Also, it would be nice to be able to set up "multisite" SSO in advanced, so the customer can seamlessly upgrade from vCenter Essentials to vCenter Standard in the future with just a license key swap (rather than rip and replace the PSC nodes and re-point vCenter). However, since VMware does not support Enhanced Linked Mode with vCenter Essentials, and Enhanced Linked Mode is enabled automatically when two PSC nodes join the same SSO domain, I suspect it is not supported to do this. Does anyone know the "official" answer on this?
Bill