Range/Series Overview
IMPORTANT: This Range/Series overview section describes the range of which this product belongs. Features of different versions might be mentioned and may not apply to the specific product on this page. Please view Specs for specification of product.Gain centralized visibility, simplified and efficient management at scale, and extensibility across the hybrid cloud - all from a single console. VMware vCenter Server is advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling your VMware vSphere environments, allowing you to automate and deliver a virtual infrastructure across the hybrid cloud with confidence.
VMware vCenter Server Foundation provides powerful management tools for smaller environments looking to rapidly provision, monitors, and control virtual machines.
Features Summary
- Simple deployment
Quickly deploy vCenter Server as a pre-packaged, optimized, and easy-to-maintain virtual appliance. Integration of vSphere Update Manager into vCenter Server Appliance makes patching and upgrading fast and easy. RESTful APIs allow for the easily repeatable deployment of vCenter Server Appliance from a template, speeding up deployment times as well as reducing human error. - Extensibility and scalability across hybrid cloud
Seamlessly extend your on-premises environment to vSphere-based public clouds, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, no matter which version of vCenter Server you are running. Large-scale management is improved: manage hosts and virtual machines with a single vCenter Server instance. - Centralized control and visibility
Administer your entire vSphere infrastructure from a single location. The HTML 5-based vSphere client lets you manage the essential functions of vSphere from any browser, offering more responsiveness and usability than ever before. Assign users to custom roles, search vCenter Server inventory, or provision new virtual machines with the click of a button. - Proactive optimization
Allocate and optimize resources for maximum efficiency with the server management software. Manage virtual machines and hosts across 15 vCenter Server instances. Use vSphere HA and DRS clusters to support hosts and virtual machines. Replicate roles, permissions, and licenses across the infrastructure so you can simultaneously log in, view, and search the inventories of all vCenter Servers. Link multiple vCenter Server Appliances and increase visibility without using costly load balancers. - Improved management
Use powerful tools to simplify management and extend your control. Use web services APIs to achieve cost-effective and flexible integration with existing systems management products. - Plug-in extensibility
vSphere client plug-ins from VMware partners allow IT admins to manage third-party elements in their data center directly from vCenter Server. The server management software has the large partner ecosystem, with the open vSphere client plug-in SDK. As a result, vCenter Server customers can implement back-up, data protection, server management, network management and security management, directly from vCenter Server. - Native elements
Protect the vCenter Server appliance and related services with native high availability (HA) and a recovery time objective of less than 10 minutes. vSphere provides native active-passive HA capability, certified for vCenter Server appliance. Back up your appliance to a set of files while vCenter Server is still up and running with native backup and restore. Restore by simply pointing a fresh appliance to the backup location and files will be downloaded to the new vCenter Server appliance. No third-party products required. Schedule your vCenter Server appliance backups and control the number of backups retained via the native backup scheduler.
Specification Summary
Product Description
VMware vCenter Server Foundation for vSphere 8 (v. 8) - licence + 1 year VMware Subscription and Support - up to 4 hosts (per instance)
Category
Utilities - virtualisation management
Licence Qty
Up to 4 hosts (per instance)
Bundled Support
1 year VMware Subscription and Support
Service & Support
New releases update