Quick and high level. http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/index.html
<http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/index.html>Vcenter is the management layer. ESXi and Vsphere are hypervisors which can be managed by Vcenter. You would have no virtualization capability if you only have Vcenter. You'd have a management tool and nothing to manage. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Jeremy Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > I am looking for a quick high level overview of the difference between > Vcenter Server and VSphere. What can I do if I buy just VCenter, and what > can I do if I have Vsphere. The environment that this would be going into > would be a 3 standalone server environment, no SAN. > > > > I know that Vsphere requires Vcenter, but what benefit does it have over > just running Vcenter? > > > > Currently in place is the 2 machines but they are running VMWare server and > we want to migrate them to ESXi and have centralized management as well as > snapshot capability. We will be adding a third server as well. > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
