No other virtualization platform vendor provides the breadth of VMware’s virtualization management solutions with production-proven technology. Only VMware offers a comprehensive solution for management of the desktop to the datacenter to the public cloud. Best of all, VMware's management solutions integrate with your existing systems management tools so you can use what you already have and get an integrated experience for physical and virtual machine management.
With VMware management solutions, you can:
- Centrally manage thousands of virtual machines
- Manage the entire software lifecycle with VMware solutions
- Automate disaster recovery
- Automate patching of virtual machines and hosts
- Use your existing systems management tools
- Get full support for all VMware vSphere features
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Centrally Manage Thousands of Virtual Machines
VMware vCenter Server 4.1 can centrally manage hundreds of VMware ESXi/ESX hosts (up to 1,000 per datacenter) and thousands of virtual machines (up to 5,000 per datacenter), delivering operational automation, resource optimization and high availability to IT environments. Using a single Windows management client for all tasks, administrators can provision, configure, start, stop, delete, relocate and remotely access virtual machines with keyboard and mouse control. VMware vCenter Server also has a Linked Mode that provides visibility across multiple vCenter Server instances, with roles, permissions and licenses replicated across the infrastructure so you can simultaneously log in, view and search the inventories of up to 10 vCenter Servers.
Watch a technical video on: VMware vCenter Server Linked Mode and VMware vSphere
The VMware vCenter Server client is also available in a web browser implementation for access from any networked device. The browser version of the client makes providing a user with access to a virtual machine as easy as sending a bookmark URL.
Others offer either incomplete solutions or require a customer to deploy, configure, manage multiple applications—often from third parties—and often just to obtain a subset of the functionality available in VMware vCenter Server.
VMware vCenter Server delivers the highest levels of simplicity, efficiency, security and reliability to manage small and large virtualized IT environments including:
- Centralized management
- Performance monitoring
- Operational automation
- Clustering and pooling of physical server resources
- Rapid provisioning
- Secure access control
- Full SDK support for integrations
| Features | VMware vSphere 4.1 with VMware vCenter Server |
Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V with SCVMM R2 |
Citrix XenServer 5.6 with Essentials Enterprise |
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| Provisioning from Virtual Machine Templates | |
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| Automated Guest Customization | |
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| Virtual Appliance Marketplace | |
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| Centralized Host Configuration | |
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| Centralized License Management | |
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| Choice of Management Databases | |
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| Advanced CPU Resource Controls | |
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| Network Bandwidth Resource Controls | |
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Customizable Alarms |
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with SCOM |
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| Scheduled Tasks | |
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| Comprehensive task and event tracking, including hosts, virtual machines, storage and networking | |
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| Customizable Reports | |
with SCOM |
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| Resource Topology Maps | |
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Single client connects to centralized management platform & stand-alone host | |
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Higher level management abstraction with host profiles and vApps | |
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