vCenter Server provides management for VxRail, server virtualization, and vSAN storage. A single vCenter instance can scale to enterprise levels, supporting hundreds of VxRail nodes and thousands of VM. VxRail can either use an instance of vCenter that is deployed within VxRail cluster or use an existing vCenter instance. For more information, see the Dell VxRail vCenter Server Planning Guide.

vCenter provides a logical hierarchy of data centers, clusters, and hosts. This hierarchy facilitates segmenting resources by use case or lines of business and allows resources to move dynamically as needed. This is all done from a single intuitive interface.

vCenter Server provides VM and resource services, such as inventory service, task scheduling, statistics logging, alarm and event management, and VM provisioning and configuration. vCenter Server also provides advanced availability features, including:

• vSphere vMotion: Enables live VM workload migration with zero downtime
• vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS): Continuously balances and optimizes VM compute resource allocation across nodes in the cluster
• vSphere High Availability (HA): Provides VM failover and restart capabilities