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.

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

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.

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.

First of all you can manage a lots of hosts and virtual machines by one web window.

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.

Vmware Vcenter complicated my systems. I never seen any bad situation in VCenter. It depends administration of your systems.

This had been a great addition and allows vSphere to be an enterprise platform and become very stable.

The best feature of vCenter is the ease of management for multiple entities. It saves a tremendous amount of time even for small deployments.

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.

Since version 6.5, when vCenter can be installed as Virtual Appliance, it's the best control center for VMware environment. Easy to configure, quick and has HTML5 support.

Price is high for version with all functionality. Not all functions are available in HTML5, there are still some which work only with Flash version. Backward compatibility only to 5.5. Since version 6.5 no support for installed vSphere client.

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

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

Total management of my virtual environment

This is the management infrastructure for the Vmware virtualization environment. It brings with it a lot of features like vmotion for one and clustering and HA services all working to reduce your downtime. Using Virtual Center is leaps and bounds better than managing individual ESXi hosts on their own. You can coordinate updates and see all of your infrastructure under a single pane of glass. Organize your ESXi servers into datacenters and locations and folders or clusters. Once you try Virtual Center you will never go back to managing individual hosts again.

Currently uses Adobe Flash for the main interface but they have a mostly functional HTML5 interface available in the latest version and are moving to a fully functional HTML5 interface quickly.

All together great product.

Consistent layout of menu, ease of use, improved HTML5 GUI, AD login plugin.

There are still some features missing that exist in Flash WEB client; vSAN monitoring is buggy, export of listed events/tasks,inventory is not possible in HTML5 client. After upgrading or updating I must warn all users to clear web browser cache before first login to vCenter WEB GUI. Sorting of columns in active tasks (in bottom frame) is often jumping/rearranging as task finishes and making it unusable for monitoring.

VMware VirtualCenter is a single pane of glass application to manage our server environment. It is essential to operate the VMware cluster, we could not live without it.

The software is very stable and makes it easy to perform day to day management tasks. It gives a good overview of our environment and helps us to make choices in e.g. load balancing or making changes to settings. Rolling out new servers is easy to do.

Not every feature is available in the HTML5 version of the interface. There is also a Flash interface that you may need to switch to, to make changes to e.g. permissions.

Amazing

Industry's most robust and powerful virtualization central management tool with loads of function like vsan, monitoring, logging, advanced networking like vDS, and many more

pricey and not all features are available on this single one, need to go for vRealize Ops for more feature at additional costs.

Very good

User interface. Integration with LDAP. updates for vcenter and hosts.

Interface must be simplified for users to interact with it

We use VMWare for our virtual server environment.

I like the centralized control of our virtual environment and the ability to shift systems from host to host without any noticeable lag.

Moving to the web interface only in 6.5 and 6.7 has been a pain to find the things I use the most.

Easy o setup and use, hard to master as there is so much to it, but once you enered the rabbit hole, you may never want to go get out.

Depending on environment, it could be sometimes unstable, but nothing that you cannot solve with proper support.

Perform vmotion or storage vmotion to easily relocate virutal machines. Also like the HA and DRS features build in to VCenter

not all features being available in the vsphere web client and the vsphere client is a bit of a con for me.

1. vCenter help to maximize the resource utilization 2. Help to manage the infrastructure easily and effectively 3. High availability of VMs

Performance monitor features are very less.

The Vmware Products its not only standalone software, if you think SDDC concept, you are right way..

if you want to VMWare products you need more money.

The system is very reliable and stable. It help you manage large number of virtual machines , that can save lots of time and resources.

The managment for multiple esxi hypervisors is the power of this software. It help managing and maintaining virtual machines, being able to back them up, or move from one hypervisor to another.

Initial setup can take some time in gathering together all your hardware. The system is pricey.

learnt Linux OS.

A beginner can easily work/learn any kind of operating sysytem using this software without installing the OS on the base machine.

I have used atrail version of this software and bought a full version of this software, which clearly shows that i didn't find any difficulties in this software.

The console feature when you're having issues with a PC--the ease in which you can view system resources for each individual virtual server

It's a bit of a learning curve if you aren't a network guy to figure out how the server farms work and where things really lie on the actual infrastructure.

I have been using vCenter 6.x for about 1 year. I am using the appliance version. Overall, the appliance is stable and runs well. Upgrading it is also very easy and pretty painfree. There are basically two main issues I have with it. 1. The whole Update Manager setup is pretty weak. First, it is not even explained in a simple document on how it works, how it flows, etc.... Just install it and it works? Well, it doesn't. 2. The web interface. VMWare moving the whole product to Web Interface only (you can still use the older thick client, but not all features present) is a bad taste because it's just plain slow. VMware, if you want us to go this route, you need to rewrite the Web Interface in HTML5 and dump Flash once and for all.

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

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.

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