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A customer deployed vCenter that is hosted outside of the VxRail environment is required when
configuring VxRail in a stretch cluster configuration and for environments where vSAN
encryption will be enabled.
The figure below shows an example of a customer deployed vCenter Server managing multiple
VxRail and non-VxRail clusters.
Figure 11. VxRail Managed by customer deployed vCenter
The decision to use a VxRail Manager-deployed vCenter or a customer-deployed vCenter is
made during system planning prior to installation. Once the system has been deployed,
changing vCenter deployment options requires the assistance of Dell EMC services.