Overview¶
Menu Overview¶
About vCenter Server¶
It provides the ISO image that store the installer of vCenter Server that is available in a virtual machine on Dedicated Hypervisor vSphere ESXi.
It can be used as a vCenter Server License (vCloud Air Network) of the Service Provider License.
Deployment Patterns¶
- Followings are the use cases of the vCenter Server.Guest OS and DBMS must be software that is bundled with the guest images or vCenter Server image.
<Deployment Patterns>
Dedicated hypervisor |
Guest OS |
DBMS | Use of guest images |
BYOL |
Deployment Patterns |
Menu availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vSphere ESXi | Windows Server | SQL Server Standard | ● | A | N | |
| ● | B | Y | ||||
| SQL Server Express [1] | ● | C | N | |||
| ● | D | Y | ||||
| Hyper-V | Windows Server | SQL Server Standard | ● | E | N | |
| ● | F | N | ||||
| SQL Server Express [1] | ● | G | N | |||
| ● | H | N |
| [1] | It is a DBMS provided and bundled within the vCenter Server Installer. When “Simple install” is selected in the installer, it will be automatically installed. |
Conceptual Drawing of Configuration Patterns (Only B and D in the pattern below can be used.)
Features¶
This service corresponds to the following Customers’ needs:
Customers wishing to continue the existing operational processes and operational proficiency tools after cloud migration for leveraging the vSphere virtual environment in on-premises.
Customers wishing to realize cost-optimization, asset light of private cloud to meet the changes in the business environment and then, simplifying the management of your VMware hybrid cloud.