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# vCenter Server

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> vCenter Server is a server management platform that helps businesses deploy and manage virtual infrastructures across hybrid cloud environments. Using vSphere High Availability (HA) capability, administrators can replicate roles, permissions, and licenses across all virtual machines.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 91 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 91 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: VMware
- **Founded**: 1989

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: USD 1,535.00
- **Pricing Details**: vCenter Server pricing plans are available across two tiers, on one-time license basis, as outlined below:
vCenter Server Foundation: $1535
vCenter Server Standard: $6175
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Alerts/Escalation
- Automatic Backup
- Backup and Recovery
- Compliance Management
- Configuration Management
- Data Migration
- Event Logs
- Load Balancing Tools
- Patch Management
- Performance Monitoring
- Reporting/Analytics
- Role-Based Permissions
- Server Monitoring
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
- Single Sign On
- Third-Party Integrations
- User Management
- Virtual Machine Monitoring

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support

## Category

- [Server Management Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/647/system-administration/software)

## Related Categories

- [Server Management Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/647/system-administration/software)
- [Virtualisation Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/649/virtualization/software)

## Alternatives

1. [ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/90387/manageengine-opmanager) — 4.5/5 (257 reviews)
2. [ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/101853/manageengine-applications-manager) — 4.6/5 (255 reviews)
3. [vSphere](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2052081/vsphere) — 4.7/5 (431 reviews)
4. [Amazon EC2](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/124/ec2) — 4.7/5 (173 reviews)
5. [Google Cloud](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/122483/google-cloud-platform) — 4.7/5 (2262 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Great monitor and control tool for IT" — 5.0/5

> **Karen** | *1 June 2018* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: This software gives you a centralized control and management of all the IT infrastructure. Helps to monitor the performance of the servers.
> 
> **Cons**: Doesnt have a friendly graphic interphase and like other VMware applications, the product is expensive.
> 
> Centralized control and management of all the IT infrastructure

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### "The keystone of the VMware software portfolio" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *9 March 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: VirtualCenter or vCenter is the primary management layer for VMware's virtualization technology. It enables all sorts of essential enterprise features such as HA, DRS, vMotion, and more. The best part about vCenter is the ease of use in managing large environments. The design is very straightforward and it includes wizards to help even beginners quickly manage their environment. vCenter also is pluggable and can support many 3rd party plugins.
> 
> **Cons**: Performance tends to suffer when managing larger environments. There was a C\# client that has since been deprecated, I did like the speed and performance of the C\# client relative to the newer Web Client. Fortunately the Web Client has been rewritten in HTML5 versus Flex which has dramatically boosted speed and reliability.
> 
> Excellent software that set the bar for enterprise management software in the mid 2000s.

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### "Do not use, really terrible" — 2.0/5

> **Joel** | *12 December 2018* | Gambling & Casinos | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: so clunky and not a pleasure to use like other software. 
Really difficult to use and does not work half the time, really unstable
> 
> **Cons**: Customer support almost non existent, tried getting in contact many times but to no avail. 
Really unstable, would be doing work and the system would crash. This happend many times

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### "I manage my virtual machine Vcenter." — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *14 May 2018* | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It is so easy to manage all machine from web window. You can monitor all hardware status and CPU, Memory and storage usage under summary tab. Also you can migrate Virtual machine others machine which it has more resource  than other machine.
> 
> **Cons**: Vmware Vcenter complicated my systems. I never seen any bad situation in VCenter. It depends administration of your systems.
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> First of all you can manage a lots of hosts and virtual machines by one web window.

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### "Best of breed management" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *1 February 2019* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The best feature of vCenter is the ease of management for multiple entities. It saves a tremendous amount of time even for small deployments.
> 
> **Cons**: There is a discrepancy in feature sets between the HTML5 and Flex interface. This means you can use the HTML5 interface for basic stuff and use Flex for more advanced stuff. HTML5 is much faster.
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> This had been a great addition and allows vSphere to be an enterprise platform and become very stable.

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