The VirtualCenter Client is the interface used to manage the virtual infrastructure through the VirtualCenter Server.

The Management Interface (MUI) and Service Console are used to administer ESX Server with or without VirtualCenter in the environment.

The VMware Remote Console is used to remotely connect to and manage VMs. It s similar to a KVM switch in your data center, but is implemented as software.

Managed components include virtualization platforms, managed hosts, virtual machines, and datastores.

Software components include the VirtualCenter Server, VirtualCenter Web service, VirtualCenter Client, VirtualCenter database, VirtualCenter agents, and Vmotion.

Organizational components include server farms, farm groups, farms, hosts, virtual machine groups, and virtual machines

Functional components include inventory, scheduled tasks, templates, alarms, and events.

VirtualCenter supports Microsoft Access, SQL Server, and Oracle database platforms.

Installing VirtualCenter requires an ODBC connection to the VirtualCenter database.

VirtualCenter is a Windows-based application that requires the .NET Framework.

VirtualCenter requires licenses for the VirtualCenter Server, VMotion, and VirtualCenter Agents.

VirtualCenter can be used to manage hundreds of managed hosts and thousands of virtual machines.

Clones can be created from a VM in the VirtualCenter inventory or from a template.

Managed hosts have alarms for CPU, memory, and state.

The following roles exist within VirtualCenter: VirtualCenter administrator, virtual machine administrator,...