VMware vCenter Server is the simplest, most efficient way to manage VMware vSphere – whether you have ten VMs or tens of thousands of VMs. It provides unified management of all the hosts and VMs in your datacenter from a single console with an aggregate performance monitoring of clusters, hosts and VMs. VMware vCenter Server gives administrators deep insight into the status and configuration of clusters, hosts, VMs, storage, the guest OS and other critical components of a virtual infrastructure – all from one place.

With VMware vCenter Server, virtualization environments are easier to manage: a single administrator can manage 100 or more workloads, more than doubling typical productivity in managing physical infrastructure.

Provision, monitor and manage your virtualized IT environment through a single interface:

• Analyze physical servers in your environment, plan for consolidation of good virtualization candidates and convert physical machines to virtual machines.
• Simplify the provisioning of new virtual machines with wizard-driven processes and templates that allow the deployment of new virtual machines—instantly.
• Operational automation through task scheduling and alerting improves responsiveness to business needs and prioritizes actions needing the most urgent attention.
• Automate routine management tasks with task scheduling and alerting.
• Monitor performance and utilization of physical servers and the virtual machines they are running with detailed reporting of CPU, memory and I/O performance.
• Limit access to authorized personnel using tiers of customizable roles, fine-grained permissions and integration with Microsoft Active Directory.
• Integrate with 3rd party systems management products through the VMware Infrastructure SDK.

VMWare Virtual Center Data Sheet