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Management Services
VMware vSphere management services include the tools and interfaces available to virtual
infrastructure administrators to efficiently manage VMware vSphere environments. These
management services include the following:
vCenter Server vCenter Server provides the central point of control for the administration
and management of VMware vSphere environments. It acts as a single console to manage key
IT processes for a virtualized data center such as monitoring, provisioning, patching, migration,
capacity management, disaster recovery, and many other critical functions. VMware vCenter also
integrates with existing industry-leading systems management tools from vendors such as BMC,
CA, HP, and IBM/Tivoli for end-to-end physical and virtual management for a data center.
vCenter Orchestrator vCenter Orchestrator is a powerful orchestration engine integrated
with vCenter. You can either use an out-of-the-box library of workflows or develop your own
customized workflows to automate operational tasks.
vCenter Guided Consolidation vCenter Guided Consolidation provides a wizard-based
process for first-time virtualization users to accelerate the server consolidation process. You
can utilize this in smaller environments to discover physical servers, analyze their resource
utilization, convert these physical servers to virtual machines, and place them on appropriate
vSphere hosts.
vCenter Update Manager vCenter Update Manager automates the process of scanning and
patching online VMware ESX hosts and selective Microsoft and Linux virtual machines to
enforce compliance to patch standards. You can upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware
Tools, and virtual appliances as well as patch and update third-party software running on
the virtual machines and virtual appliances.
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