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What is VMWare VirtualCenter?

VMware VirtualCenter is virtual infrastructure management software for businesses that want to build cost‑effective next‑generation computing environments and optimized datacenters. VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for your datacenter’s virtual computing resources, driving flexibility, efficiency and responsiveness. With VirtualCenter in place, datacenters can instantly provision servers, globally manage resources and eliminate scheduled downtime for hardware maintenance. VirtualCenter reduces time, effort and complexity of datacenter management by:

• Optimizing the datacenter and enabling next‑generation computing services
• Leveraging industry‑standard x86‑architecture hardware
• Unifying management of diverse environments including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Novell operating system

What are the Benefits of VMware VirtualCenter?

• Align available resources with pre‑defined business priorities while streamlining labor and resource intensive operations using VMware DRS.
• Migrate live virtual machines and conduct non‑disruptive maintenance of IT environments using VMotion™.
• Enable cost‑effective application availability independent of hardware and operating systems using VMware HA.

How Does VMware VirtualCenter Work?

• VirtualCenter Management Server is the central control node for configuring, provisioning and managing virtualized IT environments. The Management Server runs as a service on Microsoft® Windows 2000, Microsoft® Windows XP Professional and Microsoft® Windows Server 2003.
• VirtualCenter Database is used to store persistent information about the physical servers, resource pools and virtual machines managed by the VirtualCenter Management Server. The database resides on standard versions of Oracle, Microsoft® SQL Server, or Microsoft® MSDE.
• Virtual Infrastructure Client allows administrators and users to connect remotely to the VirtualCenter Management Server or individual ESX Servers from any Windows PC.
• VirtualCenter Agent connects VMware ESX Server with the VirtualCenter Management Server.
• Virtual Infrastructure Web access allows virtual machine management and access to virtual machine graphical consoles without installing a client. The following add‑on products to VirtualCenter deliver resource optimization and high availability functionality.
• VMware DRS dynamically allocates and balances computing capacity across collections of hardware resources aggregated into unified resource pools.
• VMware VMotion live virtual machines between physical servers without disruption to end users.
• VMware HA provides easy to use, cost effective high availability for applications running in virtual machines.

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