Right, let me be clear. Both of those apps are the management consoles for ESX. Not the actual hypervisors.
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare VSphere vs. Vcenter Server Quick and high level. 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/> ~
