lower cost of ownership, since no Windows OS license is required.The web-based interface is used for configuration.
The appliance is simply imported to an ESXi host. Here are the main benefits of using the vCenter Server Appliance over the vCenter Server Windows installation: It comes pre-installed with all the components needed to run a vCenter Server, including vCenter SSO (Single Sign-on), Inventory Service, vSphere Web Client and the vCenter Server itself. The appliance is imported to an ESXi host and configured through the web-based interface. VCenter Server Appliance comes as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) template. It is a prepackaged 64-bit application with an embedded PostgreSQL database that supports up to 100 hosts and 3000 virtual machines. VCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured SUSE Linux-based virtual machine optimized for running vCenter Server and the associated services. In fact, users connecting to vCenter Server will not even know on which platform vCenter Server is installed on. Both options offer the identical user experience. Two options are available for installing vCenter Server:īoth options provide features such as inventory management, virtual machine migration, high availability, distributed resource scheduling, etc.