VMM 2022 VM install or Bare Metal?

Question

in the documentation, it is a little unclear to me what the best practice is for installing SCVMM:

VMM management server
You can't run the VMM management server on Nano server (applicable to releases prior to 2019).
The management server computer name can't exceed 15 characters.
Don’t install the VMM management server, or other System Center components other than agents, on servers running Hyper-V.
You can install the VMM management server on a VM. If you do, and you use the Dynamic Memory feature of Hyper-V, then you must set the startup RAM for the virtual machine to be at least 2,048 megabytes (MB).
We recommend that you use a dedicated SCVMM management server and not install any other System Center components and management tools on the same server.
If you want to manage more than 150 hosts, we recommend the following:
Add one or more remote computers as library servers, and don't use the default library share on the VMM management server.
Don't run the SQL Server instance on the VMM management server.

we are going to do a 2 datacenter deployment (2 physical sites) and id like to know if its better to install the VMM server on a physical server or as a vm on one of the hyper v hosts.

Answer 1

I think you are confused by the following statement:

Don’t install the VMM management server, or other System Center components other than agents, on servers running Hyper-V.

However, that means that you should not run System Center components alongside Hyper-V at the physical server level. Running almost everything inside a virtual machine is recommended nowadays, and SCVMM is no different in this regard.

I would also highly recommend using Windows Server Core for the virtual machine that will be running your SCVMM instance https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/install-scvmm-2016-on-windows-server-2016-server-core. According to my experience such configuration is much more reliable and performant and requires less patching.

Good luck with your project!