VMware VirtualCenter

Provision, monitor and manage your virtualized IT environment through a single interface:

• Analyze physical servers in your environment, plan for consolidation of good virtualization candidates and convert physical machines to virtual machines.
• Simplify the provisioning of new virtual machines with wizard-driven processes and templates that allow the deployment of new virtual machines—instantly.  
• Operational automation through task scheduling and alerting improves responsiveness to business needs and prioritizes actions needing the most urgent attention.
• Automate routine management tasks with task scheduling and alerting.
• Monitor performance and utilization of physical servers and the virtual machines they are running with detailed reporting of CPU, memory and I/O performance.
• Limit access to authorized personnel using tiers of customizable roles, fine-grained permissions and integration with Microsoft Active Directory.
• Integrate with 3rd party systems management products through the VMware Infrastructure SDK.

VirtualCenter is part of a feature-rich suite that includes a unique set of virtualization-based capabilities that make your virtual environment more responsive, available and serviceable than a physical IT environment.

• Optimize resources with VMware DRS, which dynamically balances capacity and ensures service levels.
• Migrate live virtual machines across entirely separate physical servers with VMware VMotion and conduct non-disruptive maintenance of IT environments.
• Enable cost-effective application availability independent of hardware and operating systems using VMware HA.

The VMware VirtualCenter agent is included in VMware Infrastructure Foundation, Standard, and Enterprise editions. VirtualCenter Server (previously known as VirtualCenter Management Server) is licensed separately. Learn more about the VirtualCenter Server.