Deployment of on-prem Resource Bridge into different vCenter (eg management cluster)

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Deployment of on-prem Resource Bridge into different vCenter (eg management cluster)

Leigh 0

Regarding Arc for VMware, is it only possible to deploy the on-prem RB appliance into the same vCenter that I'm trying to manage? ie I have a management cluster on a different vCenter where I want to actually deploy the .ovf template - but that RB appliance would then connect to a different vCenter for Arc management.

Rahul Jorrigala 3,655 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-07-11T13:16:33.4266667+00:00

Hello @Leigh,

You can deploy the Azure Arc Resource Bridge (RB) appliance into a different vCenter than the one you're managing with Azure Arc, as long as certain conditions are met.

The Resource Bridge appliance is a Kubernetes-based VM that acts as a proxy between Azure and your target vCenter.It must be able to connect to the vCenter Server that you want to manage via Azure Arc.The RB appliance does not need to be deployed in the same vCenter as the managed workloads, but It must have network connectivity to the target vCenter.You must provide vSphere credentials during onboarding that allow it to read inventory and perform operations on the target vCenter.

Please refer to below link for more details.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/vmware-vsphere/support-matrix-for-arc-enabled-vmware-vsphere

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Leigh 0 Reputation points

2025-07-11T14:56:04.6666667+00:00

Can that be done with the generated PowerShell script though? During running the script to generate the yaml, it only asks for one vCenter and one set of creds - that's for where it deploys the appliance and then connects to.

There doesn't seem to be a way to deploy the RB appliance but configure it to a different vCenter.
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2025-07-16T02:21:42.9233333+00:00

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2025-07-17T02:06:25.6266667+00:00

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Rahul Jorrigala 3,655 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-07-11T13:16:33.4266667+00:00

Hello @Leigh,

You can deploy the Azure Arc Resource Bridge (RB) appliance into a different vCenter than the one you're managing with Azure Arc, as long as certain conditions are met.

The Resource Bridge appliance is a Kubernetes-based VM that acts as a proxy between Azure and your target vCenter.It must be able to connect to the vCenter Server that you want to manage via Azure Arc.The RB appliance does not need to be deployed in the same vCenter as the managed workloads, but It must have network connectivity to the target vCenter.You must provide vSphere credentials during onboarding that allow it to read inventory and perform operations on the target vCenter.

Please refer to below link for more details.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/vmware-vsphere/support-matrix-for-arc-enabled-vmware-vsphere

Please let me know if you face any challenge here, I can help you to resolve this issue further

Provide your valuable Comments.

Please do not forget to "Accept the answer” and “upvote it” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.it would be greatly appreciated and helpful to others.
Leigh 0 Reputation points

2025-07-11T14:56:04.6666667+00:00

Can that be done with the generated PowerShell script though? During running the script to generate the yaml, it only asks for one vCenter and one set of creds - that's for where it deploys the appliance and then connects to.

There doesn't seem to be a way to deploy the RB appliance but configure it to a different vCenter.
Rahul Jorrigala 3,655 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-07-16T02:21:42.9233333+00:00

Hello @Leigh,

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2025-07-17T02:06:25.6266667+00:00

Hello @Leigh,

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Hello @Leigh,

Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere currently works with vCenter Server versions 7 and 8 with a maximum of 9500 VMs.

Multiple vCenters can be onboarded using a single Azure Arc resource bridge if the total number of VMs managed by these vCenters do not exceed 9500 VMs.

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