That's a very good post that covers information people don't often think about after deploying vCenter. Additionally, it's something helpful when studying for the VCP-DCV. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing. I hope it saves others from making a similar mistake. I know I probably would have done just what you did.

Guess I will cross-post on SW.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1368875-vcenter-server-6-on-windows-2012-r2-backup-using-veeam-8

I've never used it. I think the max servers I've had is 10 hosts. but some of those were free version and some the paid version so it's never really been feasible for me.

That works for the web interface, we were hoping for the SSH interface.