vCenter Server 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

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.

vCenter Server Screenshots

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

Joseph L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Twice the Fun!

vCenter is a must if you are using ESX for your Hypervisor.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great way to manage your entire virtual infrastructure and integration all your favorite IT solutions for a one stop shop. Now you can have redundant vCenters!

Cons:

Sizing vCenter to fit your needs is a bit of trial and error. Also, we have had to apply a handful of tweaks and workaround for issue throughout the years.

Chris L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

I use vCenter to manage a worldwide install base of vSphere servers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Fast, stable, consistent, time-proven software. Well known by existing support staff and potential new hires, very little training needed. Easy to understand UI

Cons:

High license costs. I preferred the windows based thick client which is being depreciated in favor of the less capable web client.

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

Customer support

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.

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.

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.

Joel P.

Verified reviewer

Gambling & Casinos

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Do not use, really terrible

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

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

Karen M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Great monitor and control tool for IT

Centralized control and management of all the IT infrastructure

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Daniel P.

Verified reviewer

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Excellent management of the virtual machine

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

You can do the migration of other virtual machines, according to their use. You can check the CPU and the memory of the machine for the storage of assets, very fast, I recommend having a custom tool for the use of resources.

Cons:

Vmware Vcenter presents some very difficult to identify errors. Still carrying the record to the user's support, the solution is complicated. Difficult in advanced terms.

Gerson M.

Verified reviewer

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

Client Satisfaction warrantied

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Pros: - Native integration with VMware platforms. - Centralized control - Easy to install and easy to use - Multilingual, just set your preferred language, I highly recommend English - Data Backup... I can go on and on.. This software is a Must!!!

Cons:

Nothing bad to say about this product. Maybe that adding more complexity not always is accepted ad good. I don't say is not good...

Tejas G.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Best and easy to use tool for creating virtual environment machines

I found this tool is friendlier than other virtual environment tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Using VMware, user can install any operating system onto the virtual environment such as windows, Linux etc. and could use the same adapters/driver of the physical machine. This tool runs very well on windows operating system which could be used for various purposes such as testing etc.

Cons:

VMware might face connectivity problem while using the same network that of physical machine to the virtual environment

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