Overview
VMware vSphere is the industry-leading virtualization platform. It includes the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server management platform, providing a robust foundation for private and hybrid clouds.
Key Features
- vMotion: Allows for the live migration of running VMs from one physical server to another with zero downtime.
- High Availability (HA): Automatically restarts VMs on other servers if a physical host fails.
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS): Automatically balances workloads across a cluster of physical hosts.
- vSAN: Software-defined storage that pools local disks into a shared storage resource.
Market Position
vSphere is the standard for on-premises data center virtualization and is a key component of many hybrid cloud strategies.