VMware vCenter Server Standard
Centrally Managed Virtual Infrastructure Delivered with Confidence
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Overview:
vCenter Server: Simplified and Efficient Server Management
Gain centralized visibility, simplified and efficient management at scale, and extensibility across the hybrid cloud-all from a single console. VMware vCenter Server is advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling your VMware vSphere environments, allowing you to automate and deliver a virtual infrastructure across the hybrid cloud with confidence.
vCenter Server delivers centralized management and proactive management for vSphere virtual infrastructure.
What is VMware vCenter Server?
VMware vCenter Server provides centralized management of vSphere virtual infrastructure. IT administrators can ensure security and availability, simplify day-to-day tasks, and reduce the complexity of managing virtual infrastructure.
How Does vCenter Server Work?
Centralized Control and Visibility at Every Level
vCenter Server provides centralized management of virtualized hosts and virtual machines from a single console. It gives administrators deep visibility into the configuration of the critical components of a virtual infrastructure-all from one place. With vCenter Server, virtual environments are easier to manage: a single administrator can manage hundreds of workloads, more than doubling typical productivity when managing physical infrastructure. As the vCenter Server Appliance is on Photon OS, there is no third-party dependency for patches and upgrades. Problem resolution times are cut dramatically with the inclusion of a complimentary license of Log Insight*.
Virtual Infrastructure Delivered With Confidence
Consistently meeting business-critical application service-level agreements (SLAs) requires automated proactive management to maximize the capabilities of vSphere. Key capabilities enabled by vCenter Server include VMware vSphere vMotion, VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance. VMware vRealize Orchestrator also gives administrators the ability to create and easily implement best-practice workflows. With automated proactive management, vCenter Server allows service levels to be met by dynamically provisioning new services, balancing resources and automating high availability.
Extensible Platform
The open plug-in architecture of vCenter Server supports a broad range of additional capabilities from VMware and its partners. Hundreds of VMware partners integrate with vCenter Server, enabling new capabilities such as capacity management, compliance management, business continuity and storage monitoring. The vCenter Server APIs also allow integration of physical and virtual management tools for maximum flexibility. VMware vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode allows extensibility across the on premises data center and a vSphere based public cloud. Administrators now have a single pane of glass for management and visibility across their hybrid cloud environment.
How Is vCenter Server Used?
Enterprises face ever-increasing pressure to deliver IT infrastructure at the lowest total costs while consistently meeting SLAs. By using centralized and proactive management of virtual infrastructure, enterprises can ensure that IT consistently meets the needs of business.
vSphere is the industry-leading virtualization platform. It enables users to run business-critical applications with confidence and respond to business requirements faster, while operating at the lowest cost possible.
Features:
Simple Deployment
Quickly deploy vCenter Server as a pre-packaged, optimized, and easy-to-maintain virtual appliance. Integration of vSphere Update Manager into vCenter Server Appliance makes patching and upgrading fast and easy. RESTful APIs allow for the easily repeatable deployment of vCenter Server Appliance from a template, speeding up deployment times as well as reducing human error.
Extensibility and Scalability Across Hybrid Cloud
Seamlessly extend your on-premises environment to vSphere-based public clouds, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, no matter which version of vCenter Server you are running. Large-scale management is now improved: Manage up to 2,000 hosts and 35,000 virtual machines with a single vCenter Server instance.
Centralized Control and Visibility
Administer your entire vSphere infrastructure from a single location. The HTML 5-based vSphere Client lets you manage the essential functions of vSphere from any browser, offering more responsiveness and usability than ever before. Assign users to custom roles, search vCenter Server inventory, or provision new virtual machines with the click of a button.
Improved Management
Use powerful tools to simplify management and extend your control. Use web services APIs to achieve cost-effective and flexible integration with existing systems management products. And use different VMware vCenter Server versions while allowing cross-vCenter, mixed-version provisioning operations, such as vMotion, Full Clone, and cold migrate.
Proactive Optimization
Allocate and optimize resources for maximum efficiency with our server management software. Manage up to 70,000 virtual machines and 5,000 hosts across 15 vCenter Server instances. Use vSphere HA and DRS clusters to support up to 64 hosts and 8,000 virtual machines. Replicate roles, permissions, and licenses across the infrastructure so you can simultaneously log in, view, and search the inventories of all vCenter Servers. Link multiple vCenter Server Appliances and increase visibility without using costly load balancers.
Native Elements
Protect the vCenter Server Appliance and related services with native high availability (HA) and a recovery time objective of less than 10 minutes. vSphere provides native active-passive HA capability, certified for vCenter Server Appliance.
Back up your appliance to a set of files while vCenter Server is still up and running with native backup and restore. Restore by simply pointing a fresh appliance to the backup location and files will be downloaded to the new vCenter Server Appliance. No third-party products required.
Schedule your vCenter Server Appliance backups and control the number of backups retained via the native backup scheduler.
Plug-in Extensibility
vSphere Client Plug-ins from VMware partners allow IT admins to manage third-party elements in their data center directly from vCenter Server. Our server management software has the largest partner ecosystem in the industry, with our open vSphere Client Plug-in SDK. As a result, vCenter Server customers can implement back-up, data protection, server management, network management and security management, directly from vCenter Server.
VMware launched the vSphere Client Plug-in Certification Program in 2016 to ensure a better end-user experience for customers. Certified Plug-ins deliver optimal performance, better security model, client isolation against failures in one plug-in, and enhanced vCenter Server Appliance scalability. Customers will be able to distinguish certified vSphere Client Plug-ins because only certified Plug-ins will carry the "VMware-ready" logo.
Certified vSphere Web Client plug-ins:
- Dell EMC OpenManagement Integration for VMware vCenter
- Huawei Technologies Storage NGC (Flex and HTML 5)
- IBM Storage Enhancements for vSphere
- IBM Spectrum Protect vSphere Web Client
- Infinidat Powertools (HTML 5)
- Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter
- NimbleStorage vSphere Web Client
- StorMagic
Benefits:
Centralized Control and Visibility
- HTML 5 Based vSphere Client - Responsive HTML5 based vSphere client provides bleeding edge functionality.
- vCenter Single Sign-on - Simplify administration by allowing users to log in once and then access all instances of vCenter Server without further authentication.
- Inventory Search - Have the entire vCenter Server inventory, including virtual machines, hosts, datastores and networks, at your fingertips.
- Alerts and Notifications - Support new entities, metrics and events such as datastore and virtual machine-specific alarms. These alarms can trigger new automated workflows to remedy and preempt problems.
- Native Backup and Restore - Out-of-the-box file based backup option with a simple user interface, removing reliance on third-party backup solutions to protect vCenter Servers and Platform Services Controllers.
- Backup & Restore Scheduler - Schedule vCenter Server Appliance backups and control the number of backups retained. Use REST APIs to ease complexity of backup and restore.
- Migration Tool - Allows both migration of data from a Windows vCenter Server 5.5 or 6.0 and an upgrade of vCenter Server Appliance.
- vCenter Server High Availability - Protect the vCenter Server Appliance and related services with native High Availability and RTO of less than 10 minutes.
- VMware vCenter Server Converge Tool - Migrate topology from vCenter Server Appliance with External PSC into vCenter Server Appliance with Embedded PSC with ease.
Proactive Management
- Host Profiles - Standardize and simplify how you configure and manage VMware ESXi host configurations. Capture the blueprint of a known, validated configuration-including networking, storage and security settings- and deploy it to many hosts, simplifying setup. Host profile policies can also monitor compliance.
- Resource Management for Virtual Machines - Allocate processor and memory resources to virtual machines running on the same physical servers. Establish minimum, maximum and proportional resource shares for CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth. Modify allocations while virtual machines are running. Enable applications to dynamically acquire more resources to accommodate peak performance.
- Dynamic Resource Allocation - vCenter Server continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines according to predefined rules that reflect business needs and changing priorities. The result is a self-managing, highly optimized and efficient IT environment with built-in load balancing.
- Cross-vCenter Mixed Version Provisioning - Enable cross-vCenter provisioning operations such as vMotion, Full Clone and cold migrate, across different vCenter versions. Ideal for hybrid cloud solutions.
- Automatic Restart of Virtual Machines with VMware vSphere HA - Automatically restart virtual machines that have failed without manual intervention.
- Audit Trails - Maintain records of significant configuration changes and export reports for event tracking.
- Unified Patch and Upgrade Management - Using the capabilities of VMware vSphere Update Manager, enforce compliance to patch standards through automated scanning and patching of online ESXi hosts. With the integration of the vSphere Update Manager into the vCenter Server Appliance, deployment and configuration is a snap.
- Appliance Management Interface - Simple user interface that shows network and database statistics, disk space, and health in addition to CPU and memory statistics for monitoring and operational tasks.
- vRealize Orchestrator (included) - Simplify management by automating more than 800 tasks using out-of-the-box workflows or by assembling workflows using an easy drag-and-drop interface.
- vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server (light version included) - Solve problems faster with added visibility from Log Insight. Visualize event trends, trigger alerts and more, all in real time* .
Extensible Platform
- Linked Mode - vCenter Server provides scalable architecture and visibility across multiple vCenter Server instances, with roles, permissions and licenses replicated across the infrastructure. You can log in, view and search the inventories of all vCenter Servers simultaneously.
- Enhanced Linked Mode with Embedded PSC - Simplify the vCenter Server topology through vCenter with embedded platform services controller. Link multiple vCenters and have seamless visibility across the environment without the need for an external platform services controller or load balancers.
- Hybrid Linked Mode - Enjoy unified visibility and manageability across an on-premises vSphere environment running on one version of vCenter Server Appliance and a vSphere-based public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, running on a different version.
- APIs - Integration with ecosystem partners extends capabilities of the virtual infrastructure. New APIs enable deployment of vCenter Server based on a template.
Documentation:
Download the VMware vCenter Server Datasheet (PDF).
Pricing Notes:
- All Prices are Inclusive of GST
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.
- Note: Purchase of SnS is required!
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