vCenter - If you run ESX, you should definitely have it!
March 28, 2018
vCenter - If you run ESX, you should definitely have it!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server
Our whole environment, upwards of 800 servers across multiple sites is 99.9% virtualized on VMware and we use a vCenter server to manage it all. It allows you to manage multiple hosts, storage, sites and recovery from a single management console. VMware vCenter Server as a management tool for our environment is used by the specific teams that require access to manage virtual machines, ESX hosts, storage or backups.
- VMware vCenter Server is particularly good at Distributed Resource Scheduling or DRS.
- vCenter server is also great in terms of providing High Availability across virtualization hosts in a cluster configuration, providing reassurance and resilience in case of failure.
- vCenter's VSAN capability allows smaller organizations to have a resilient shared storage infrastructure without having to pay for a large SAN environment.
- The worst thing about the server is the flash based web console. VMware really needs to put some development time into a proper HTML5 console.
- The positive impact of vcenter is definitely felt in larger organisations in terms of being able to manage multiple servers all in one environment
- It will decrease the amount of time your server engineers will have to spend in the server room or datacenter.
VMware vcenter server is way ahead of the competition in terms of features and thought that has gone into the product.