I currently have vCenter running as a VM in a UCS Mini chasis. Last night the host that had vCenter on it failed and the VMs didn't fail over to a good server as expected. I'm assuming this is because the host that failed was the one also running vCenter, but if that is expected then wouldn't it be better to have vCenter running on a physical server outside of the VMware infrastructure?
The setup at work is relatively new so I'm a bit worried as I'm already dealing with this issue. Thankfully there was only one other server on the host that failed and it isn't in production, but the whole lack of failover has me thinking I should repurpose an old physical box for vCenter.