Product Evaluation Center for
VMware vSphere and
vSphere with Operations Management

Installation and Configuration

vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management deliver a hybrid cloud platform with consistent management, purpose-built to get the best performance, availability and efficiency out of your infrastructure and applications from day one​. The VMware vSphere architecture consists of the following:

•  - A base hypervisor, vSphere ESXi, that is installed on every physical server for hosting virtual machines.
•  - One instance of a management server, vCenter Server, enables centralized management of multiple vSphere hosts.
•  - An operations management component, vRealize Operations, optimizes vSphere with performance monitoring and capacity management.
•  - Log analytics and management with vRealize Log Insight, provides actionable dashboards with deep operational visibility.

Start your vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management evaluation with the following five steps:

Step 1:  vSphere Installation and Setup

Step 2: vRealize Operations Deployment

Step 3: Initial Setup of vRealize Operations Cluster

Step 4: First Login for a New Install

Step 5: vRealize Log Insight Install and Configure

Workload Placement & Rebalance

Performance and Capacity Management

vSphere Performance Monitoring and
Guided Remediation

Capacity Optimization and Scenario
Modeling

vSphere Hardening

Buying VMware vSphere or vSphere with Operations Management

The rich capabilities of vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management are packaged into multiple editions to fit the needs of any organization. (Please note that ESXi is the preferred hypervisor architecture when deploying vSphere). VMware vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management is available in English, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Find out which product is best suited to your business needs:

• vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Editions
• vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Pricing
• Pricing, Packaging and Licensing Whitepaper
• One instance of VMware vCenter Server, sold separately, is required for VMware vSphere deployments