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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

It will work Virtually to get you into you work desktop

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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