VMware vCenter Product Family

Automate the Administration of Datacenter Operations

Simplify IT management with VMware vCenter virtualization and cloud management solutions. vCenter solutions help you accelerate IT service delivery, transform operational efficiency, automatically assure compliance, and reduce business risks.

vCenter virtualization and cloud management solutions are built for dynamic environments to fundamentally change how organizations manage IT and deliver services. This approach is built on the foundation of VMware vSphere™ and VMware vCloud Director to enable a zero-touch infrastructure, with the built-in automation and policy-based control required to deploy a self-service model and deliver IT as a service.

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Virtualization & Cloud Management

Simplify and automate virtualization and cloud management tasks to increase IT productivity and create a flexible infrastructure.

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VMware vCenter Server

Centrally manage your VMware vSphere environments and improve control over your virtual environment.

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Simplify IT Management and Optimize Operational Efficiency

Drive the highest levels of efficiency, automation, compliance, and security while reducing operational costs with VMware vCenter Server, the foundation for the VMware vCenter product family. The industry’s most advanced virtualization management platform enables seamless end-to-end datacenter management through its rich set of APIs that enable integration with third-party management tools. Simplify your virtual datacenter operations across virtual and physical environments with "set and forget" policy-driven administration and automated IT processes for greater efficiency across your VMware deployment with VMware vCenter product family solutions, including:

Infrastructure and Operations Management

• Intelligent Capacity - Maximize efficiency, minimize waste and ensure service levels through optimized virtual infrastructure capacity.
• Policy-Based Configuration - Ensure configuration compliance across your virtual and physical environments to automate and control server and desktop configuration changes.
• Business Continuity: Simplify the management of your disaster recovery process with automated testing, planning and execution of disaster recovery plans.
• Accelerated Deployment - Deliver on-demand access to a library of system configurations and simplify management of software testing and development.

Application Management

• Dynamic Mapping - Get a fast and accurate data center view across your virtual and physical environments with automated application dependency mapping.
• Predictable Performance - Ensure business owners that performance SLAs will be met as you manage and ensure the performance of multi-tier applications.

IT Business Management

• Transparent Cost Reporting - Get accurate costs for deploying virtualized workloads for cost transparency and accountability across business units when you model, measure and assign costs for IT service delivery.