vCenter Server 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

vCenter Server

4.7

(91)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About vCenter Server

vCenter Server is a server management solution that helps businesses automate and build hybrid cloud infrastructures. Administrators can configure infrastructure-wide roles, permissions and licenses to allow specific users to log in, view and search through all vCenter servers.

vCenter Server lets organizations utilize plug-ins to streamline operations related to data protection, network management and server security. Professionals can set up entities, metrics and events specific alerts and notifications, enabling users to trigger automated workflows for remediation and issue preemption. It lets supervisors schedule file-based application backups and define the number of retained backups. Additionally, users can maintain records of all configuration changes and utilize single sign-on methodology to ensure secure user experience.

It comes with an application programming interface (API), allowing businesses to integrate the system with several third-party solutions. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via documentation, discussion forum, phone and email.

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vCenter Server Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,535.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1,535.00

No plan information available

vCenter Server Features

Popular features found in Server Management
Capacity Planning
CPU Monitoring
Credential Management
Incident Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Patch Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Scheduling
Virtual Machine Monitoring
More features of vCenter Server
Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Escalation
API
Automatic Backup
Backup and Recovery
Compliance Management
Configuration Management
Data Migration
Event Logs
Load Balancing
Performance Monitoring
Reporting/Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
Server Monitoring
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Single Sign On
Third-Party Integrations
User Management
Workflow Management

vCenter Server User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

70%

26%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.7

Marc L.

Verified reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Great for managing all your vsphere servers

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to setup clusters, good reporting and features, nice options for upgrading and alerting. Been a good product for years.

Cons:

Kind of disappointed they are phasing our Windows vcenter and moving towards appliance only support.

Verified

Reviewer

Banking

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Make virtualizing a real experience with VMware

Vmware Vcenter server is the key VM infrastructure management utility with a simple web interface. Monitoring of server performance and managing server requirements like storage, RAM, and the network has become a very easy task due to Vcenter Server.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For more than 10 years we were using VMware in our server infrastructure. It is easy to deploy and can deploy on-premise as well as cloud platforms giving extensibility and scalability across hybrid clouds. In our environment Production, DR, DMZ, test segments are managed from a single location thanks to vcenter architecture. Delegation of activities across the server administrators are painless due to VM infrastructure

Cons:

Some functions were not available on the new html5 web client compared to the previous flash-based application version. Further, Vcenter has limits on the NICs. 1 GB NIC Allows only 4 VMotion operations at a time. It is better if they can improve the update manager in a more detailed manner.

Jay C.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

VMware

For the most part your going to need to make sure your bandwith is big eoungh or it will crash all the time

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

It will work Virtually to get you into you work desktop

Cons:

It will crash or freeze on you when there is a lot of traffic on the network.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

vCenter Server 5.x/6.x

convenient for centralized management, using a single console for the entire virtual environment, low resource consumption, easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great sw integreted with vSphere for central management of virtual env (vms, hosts, virtual storage)

Cons:

The appliance version have low configuration options, logs useless

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Vcenter Server

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Vmotion and the ability for VMs to move from one host to another are things I like. VSAN managed storage by claiming the disks and raiding them. HA - High Availability. The arrangement of hosts and clusters.

Cons:

In all honesty, I can't think of anything that I don't like least about Vcenter.

Reasons for choosing vCenter Server

Vcenter Server is the perfect product for managing virtual machines and organizing the virtualization environment.

Verified

Reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

The heart of the vmware virtualization platform, lets you manage your datacenter

centralized management of the virtual infrastructure, high availability, load balancing, data center automation

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

virtual center is the central management platform for the vsphere infrastructure and is the best product in its class since well more than a decade. All hosts, even residing in different locations are managed centrally from a single console, which lets you deploy their configuration centrally, manage upgrades, network settings, storage settings and move and balance workloads in clusters automatically

Cons:

the major downside of virtual center has been vmware ditching the virtual center client for the web-based one. The legacy client was a great piece of software, fast and responsive, which offered excellent overview of the infrastructure. The web client, instead, is slow and confusing.

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Reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

VCenter is Best for Manage Vmware Vsphere

Vcenter help System Administrator alot on VM movement, especially when they want to upgrade ESXI Host, maintenance Host, they can do the failover switch VM to run on another host without affect to user access of the VM at all. very powerful VCenter.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

monitoring the ESXI and also managing the live migration of VM while one host down, it performs movement VM to another Host without lost or disruptive to users at all. Manage host very well, can perform the upgrade, put in maintenance for cleaning up the physical Host server.

Cons:

its running very smooth already, i have no comment about this. the new HTML5 UI is work well for new version.

Verified

Reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

The industry standard in virtual computing environment management

Everyone is virtualized, and this is what we use. We are 90-95% virtual, and we use vCenter to manage it all.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

It is a single pane of glass for your VMWare environment: manage your entire VMWare compute farm with multiple sites and clusters in one place. You can manage everything from single VM setup to cluster behavior to DR behavior.

Cons:

From a software perspective, for years VMWare servers become unmanaged if a storage admin removes even unused storage before an ESX host detaches it. It should be able to handle it. That's more of and ESX issue, not vCenter per se.

Reynaldo S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Most Simplified Management Interface on a Virtual Enviroment.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The installation or deployment for Vcenter is completelly simple just a few clicks with some options, once the Vcenter is deployed you can manage the entire virtual infraestructure, replication, Automated load balancing, high availability. Your server administration will be easier with a simple drag and drop to move virtual machines between host. Even is easier to manage / troubleshoot and update to newers versions, this is the goal for any IT Administrator to apply in his infraestructure.

Cons:

In some older versions i dislike the usage of Flash to manage the enviromer but the most recently one uses html5 and this change my mindset.

Raul M.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Best choice for centralized management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

VMware VirtualCenter is few steps ahead in virtualized environments. Having a centralized management and virtualized servers and workstations can make the difference in the enterprise business.

Cons:

The enterprise edition price is high for medium to small business. The support for Linux based environments could be better.

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