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VMware vCenter Server provides centralised management to vSphere virtual infrastructure. This provides IT administrators with security and availability, simplification in day-to-day tasks, and reduces the complexity of managing virtual infrastructure.

VMware vCenter is used to deliver IT infrastructure at the lowest total costs and at the same time consistently meeting SLAs. With the main features of providing centralised and proactive management of virtual infrastructure, businesses are able to respond to requirements faster, at the best cost-efficiency.

VMware vCenter works by providing a centralised management solution for virtualised hosts and virtual machines from a single console.
This provides deep visibility into the configurator of critical components of the virtual infrastructure, maximises key capabilities of vSphere and provides extensible plug-in architecture to support a broad range of additional capabilities from VMware and its partners.

Licensing a vCenter Server system requires a vCenter Server licenses that have per-instance capacity.
VMware vCenter can be categorised into three different licensing editions:

Standard – Manages up to 2000 vSphere ESXi hosts

Foundation – Best suited for environments with no more than four vSphere ESXi hosts to manage

Essentials – Allows for management of up to three vSphere ESXi hosts