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VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds. VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of…
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What is VMware vCenter?
VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds. It offers centralized visibility and simplified management at scale, and extensibility across the hybrid cloud, from a single console. VMware vCenter is advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling VMware vSphere environments, allowing users to automate and deliver a virtual infrastructure across the hybrid cloud with confidence.
VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds. VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of VMware vCenter are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Intuitive User Interface: Reviewers have consistently praised the intuitive and easy-to-navigate user interface of vCenter, with many users stating that it made tasks easy and allowed for efficient management of complex infrastructure components. Centralized Management Capabilities: Numerous reviewers appreciated the centralized management capabilities of vCenter, which provided a single portal to handle hundreds of virtual machines efficiently. This feature allowed users to easily manage, allocate resources, and migrate VMs or workloads. Fast Server Provisioning and Cloning: Several users highlighted vCenter's ability to spin up, delete, and clone servers within minutes as a defining feature in modern data centers. This functionality was particularly helpful for provisioning and automation tasks.
High Price: Some organizations have found it difficult to justify the expense of VMware vCenter due to its high price. This sentiment is shared by several users who feel that the cost of vCenter is quite expensive.
Troubleshooting Challenges: Gaining insight into problems without a third-party application or VMware add-on can be challenging, making troubleshooting difficult for some users. This has been a common concern raised by reviewers who mention the need for additional tools to effectively troubleshoot issues in vCenter.
HTML5 Client Preference: Some users do not prefer the push towards using only the HTML5 vSphere client and express their desire for a cleaner and simpler integration with PowerCLI. The preference for the previous client version over HTML5 has been mentioned by multiple users as well.
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May 05, 2022
vCenter Makes It Easy to Manage vSphere.
- SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
vCenter is much more complete as a solution than other products that I have looked at and it works very well for our environment. vCenter is very easy to configure and does not have the unnecessary steps to set up and configure. Also, the different storage vendor support makes it easy to configure and maintain without having to use separate applications or consoles.
June 10, 2021
vCenter will save your day... Every Day!
- Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
Citrix Xen Server.... Great Hypervisor but very limited in terms of functionality
MS Hyper-V... [VMware vCenter Server] is better for almost everything and appliance form makes a clear winner for security and ease of deployment
May 25, 2021
VMware vCenter Server makes VM management easy
- Hyper-V, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Workstation Player (formerly VMware Player) and Oracle VM VirtualBox
VMware vCenter Server's biggest competitor is Microsoft's Hyper-V Server. We prefer VMware vCenter Server because the hypervisor is much less resource intensive. It also gives us a different environment so that a specific Microsoft bug wouldn't take down all of our VMs if the hypervisor was infected and was running Microsoft's Hyper-V Server. VMware vCenter Server has quite a few management options for replication and failover that seem to be more robust for our use case.
- Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
[VMware vCenter Server] is the true leader in this space. The functionality and ability to offload tasks to other teams makes this a no brainer. The granularity in permission allows [VMware vCenter Server] to be secure and isolate teams to only the objects they are allowed to use.
May 19, 2021
VMware powering OT
There was not much competition, VMware has been in the market the longest and other systems are still catching up. VMware is proven, trusted, and has a good support base, the other main differentiator is VSAN for storage, reducing the need for physical SAN(s) which can become a single point of failure.
May 13, 2021
VMware vCenter reviewed 4 U
VMware runs in the cloud.
I do not have the experience with cloud based VMware to comment.
I do not have the experience with cloud based VMware to comment.
April 24, 2020
A Flexible Virtualization Platform That Fits the Needs of Small to Enterprise Businesses
Hyper-V is not a bad product by any means, and it does have the benefit of not costing money for the software itself since it comes with the OS. That being said, it did start quite far behind VMware in features when it first came to market. Microsoft has been catching up, and many features that make VMware a no-brainer decision over Hyper-V have been getting added. As of right now, I still prefer VMware over Hyper-V. But, Microsoft is constantly improving Hyper-V, so they are another option to keep in mind.
I have looked briefly at some competing products, but haven't used any of them in depth.
November 12, 2019
VMware vCenter Server Review
VMware vCenter Server is a much more simplified, in my opinion, platform for managing a virtual infrastructure stack. There are a number of features that are available at the Enterprise and Enterprise+ tiers of service that other hypervisor environments do not excel at, or do not even offer, such as data store clustering and storage balancing (DRS).
July 24, 2019
Virtualization Management at it's best
- Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
Citrix XenCenter used an isolated client that directly connects to the hosts instead of using a management agent. This causes a number of issues if the host is not optimally configured. Microsoft Hyper-V has been behind VMware in feature set for many years, but is starting to catch up. The key feature that is missing is a comparable vCenter product. They do have a Virtual Machine Manger module for Systems Center, but licensing is more complicated than VMware and not all features are matched.
July 10, 2019
vCenter makes my life much easier.
We considered Microsoft Hyper-V very briefly. At the time we considered Hyper-V you still needed to purchase an extra management product to get features similar to vCenter; and even then, it didn't seem fully baked, yet. The situation may, and probably has changed, with later versions of Hyper-V, but we like, and are comfortable, with vCenter.
March 27, 2019
VMware vCenter
We only selected vCenter as there wasn't really any alternatives.
March 22, 2019
Virtual World Indeed
Based on the Gartner leader board, VMware is a pioneer in terms of virtualization, it is also API based which is easy to integrate on other systems via REST API's, the technology itself is powerful and it's corresponding other added value features that makes administering server infrastructure somehow easy and centralized.
November 13, 2018
VMware vCenter is the only Virtual Infrastructure You Need!
VMware is much easier to use, much easier to configure, and does not rely on having another OS layer like windows to run off of. This was they key for us because whenever we had to update windows we would have to migrate everything off just to apply some simple updates. VCenter is much more efficient.
August 07, 2018
The best way to manage your VMware vSphere Hosts/Environment
I've selected VMware vCenter Server among the other Virtual Server solutions because it reduces the amount of time and effort to run and set up maintenance tasks, create hosts and back them up. Replication is so easy when you have a second vCenter Server linked remotely that you can save money and time and get the most from your hardware.
March 28, 2018
vCenter - If you run ESX, you should definitely have it!
VMware vcenter server is way ahead of the competition in terms of features and thought that has gone into the product.
March 15, 2018
The best of... virtualization.
Proxmox VE is also a very powerful tool and is free, but vCenter has really hit the nail on the head as far as simplicity and ease of use, as well as, reliability.
March 09, 2018
vCenter Server is a purchase we don't regret
When we were selecting a hypervisor a few years ago, VMware was the clear leader at the time. Now the gap has lessened but I still like the feature set and feel of VMware. VMware is also moving in a direction I generally like, so I don't have any reason to replace what we've invested in.
There are similar products in the market, both commercial as well as open source. We only tried open source products such as oVirt and ProxMox, however they did not possess the range of features of this product. In addition, the majority of such options do not provide an easy way to integrate third product tools/plug-ins.
October 24, 2017
VMware still the King
Vmware is still the leader, but Microsoft is catching up, specifically with Azure Stack. VMWare has to find a cloud partner (AWS) and implement a solution very much like Azure stack.
September 12, 2017
shrink your datacenter, grow your efficiency with vCenter
I have used Microsoft Hyper-V at a previous employment. It was good in those situations of a small batch of servers. Hyper-V is relatively easy to manage and can use Powershell scripting for management and control.
In larger deployments, like we have currently, Hyper-V requires a larger amount of manual work. vCenter's ongoing development and technologies like vMotion make deployment in a larger environment, with limited IT staffing, much more efficient. In my experience, vCenter also seems to be more efficient in using the physical resources.
So, if you have a small lab or just need a few servers, Hyper-V shows its value. If you are doing a larger virtualization deployment, vCenter will pay for itself in the time saved and resources reduced.
In larger deployments, like we have currently, Hyper-V requires a larger amount of manual work. vCenter's ongoing development and technologies like vMotion make deployment in a larger environment, with limited IT staffing, much more efficient. In my experience, vCenter also seems to be more efficient in using the physical resources.
So, if you have a small lab or just need a few servers, Hyper-V shows its value. If you are doing a larger virtualization deployment, vCenter will pay for itself in the time saved and resources reduced.
August 07, 2017
Virtualize the pain away with vCenter Server!
We've been a vCenter shop for quite some time - even before our most recent deployment (which had such a substantial impact.) However, we did briefly consider Microsoft Azure, but because we were so tightly integrated with the vCenter API already, it made little sense to pour a substantial effort into moving off vCenter, when we saw no immediate benefit over vCenter Server.
It feels like other hypervisors are either trying to catch up to VMware or filling a smaller niche that VMware may be too broad to fill. VMware continues to bring the newest features and improvements and it's hard to compare any other hypervisor as long as VMware continues to lead the pack.