VCS01 and red-bank VM's on cresskill are now members of AD and a domain id was created for SQL connections.
The process of getting vCenter to talk to SQL Server turned out to be very exciting. In the end, the database for vcs is on red-bank (SQL Server VM). Obviously, VM snapshots played a large roll in the testing and troubleshooting.
"vCenter server service" and "vCenter web service" were configured to logon with the new SQL domain id.
The SQL Express service dependency that was added previously to the vCenter services was removed from both services allowing the local SQL Express services to be disabled, reducing the required resources on the vCenter VM.
The shutdown/startup scheduling was also tweaked on cresskill. Generally speaking, the process is to manually shut all VM's down before cresskill is brought down, but the restart of the VM's should be automatic and orderly (cresskill is not part of the DRS cluster and is a utility ESXi host).
Finally, the 8GB virtual disk (8GB C: partition) created for VCS01 was down to 1GB free. After increasing the virtual disk to 16GB, Dell's extpart.exe was used grow the C: partition it to 16 GB. Now that the vCenter database is on the SQL VM, VCS01 should not grow much.
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