VMware vCenter Server provides a central platform for dealing with sVMware vSphere infrastructure. It is designed so as to automate and distribute a virtual infrastructure with assurance.

VMware vCenter is a key component in most centrally critical elements of our virtual data center. It's the management point we likely use to manage our virtual data center. We will create data centers, clusters, resource pools, networks, and data stores; assign permissions; configure alerts; and monitor performance. All of this functionality is centrally configured in the vCenter Server. You should therefore dedicate part of your design to building a robust and scalable vCenter Server, and the following diagram illustrates various components of vCenter from vSphere 5.1 and above:

Before vSphere 5.1, vCenter Server was basically a monumental application; there were really only two major mechanisms to interact with: vCenter Server in vSphere 4.x and vSphere 5.0...