I'm wondering how best to configure our vCenter environment. We only need 2 vCenters (external PSC model) for the entire US. Originally, I've been thinking that I'll install a first PSC, then point vCenter in that physical site to that PSC in that newly created 'SSO site'. Then, install a PSC in the other city/physical site, joining to the existing SSO domain by pointing to the first installed PSC and configuring as a new SSOsite. Finally, install the 2nd vCenter and point it to the 2nd installed PSC in the same SSO domain but in its own SSO site.
Then I started thinking---why configure a 2nd SSO site in the 2nd physical location at all? The WAN links are plenty fast if I ever needed to repoint a vCenter to the other physical site's PSC (documented KB's for both inter and intra repointing available with 6.0 U1 I know). Couldn't I simplify my deployment further by not creating a 2nd SSO site in the SSO domain? Why not just have the 2nd PSC join the existing SSO site that was created when the 1st PSC was deployed? Each vCenter would use the PSC specified in its PHYSICAL location at deployment time, sure/absolutely. Having just a single SSO site with 2 PSC's in it doesn't appear to be one of the many deployment topologies that VMware has made available in various KB's etc UNLESS it's behind a hardware load balancer----and I just plain don't want to use a LB for this deployment because I don't think the complexity is worth it. Thoughts?