Take Control of Your Multi-Cloud Environment
73% of enterprises use two or more public clouds today. While multi-cloud accelerates digital transformation, it also introduces complexity and risk.
Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."
Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.
Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.
Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.
VMware Cross-Cloud™ services enable organizations to unlock the potential of multi-cloud with enterprise security and resiliency.
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Modernize Faster Across Clouds
Modernize apps faster with a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform to help you build and run all apps consistently across clouds.
Get on a Faster Path to Prod
Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Simplify Kubernetes Operations
Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.
Pair with App Development Experts
Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.
App Platform
Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.
11 Security Practices to Manage Container Lifecycle
Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Power Every App on Any Cloud
Migrate to the cloud without recoding your apps. Modernize your infrastructure and operate consistently across the data center, the edge, and any cloud.
Scale Your Business & Innovate
Secure, run, and manage modern apps at scale, across clouds with consistent operations, higher speed, and reduced risks.
Accelerate Cloud Transformation
Modernize infrastructure, ops and apps to reduce cross-cloud complexity, lower costs, and improve security.
Empower a Hybrid Workforce
Enable anywhere work with broad effective security, a frictionless employee experience, and reduced cost and complexity.
Cloud & Edge Infrastructure
Run enterprise apps at scale with a consistent cloud infrastructure across public clouds, data centers and edge environments.
VMware Research: Multi-Cloud Strategies
Learn why enterprises find multi-cloud strategies critical for success.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Multi-Cloud & Anywhere Workspace
Empower your employees to be productive from anywhere, with secure, frictionless access to enterprise apps from any device.
Deliver an Engaging Experience
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.
Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Automate the Workspace
Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
Anywhere Workspace
Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.
Remote Work Is No Longer Optional
Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Multi-Cloud Security & Networking
With connected security that delivers full visibility and frictionless operations, your apps and data are more secure with VMware, in any environment.
Secure & Connect Workloads
Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.
Protect APIs — the New Endpoints
Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.
Be Future-Ready
Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.
Security & Networking
Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.
Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments
Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.
Solutions & Products
Multi-Cloud Spotlight
Trusted Advisors on Multi-Cloud Journey
Partners are trusted advisors to guide customers’ journeys to multi-cloud, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.
Work with a VMware Partner
Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.
Become a Partner
Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.
Partners
With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.
Working Together with Partners for Customer Success
See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.
Solutions
VMware understands the importance of the tools that IT administrators use on a day-to-day basis to manage and oversee their data center operations. We actively work with our customers and ecosystem of partners to make these tools better and to deliver a more integrated and simple experience. By doing so, IT can be more productive supporting customers and delivering value to their business.
Advantages of vCenter Server Appliance
IT administrators are rapidly adopting the vCenter Server Appliance as their deployment model for vCenter Server. As the vCenter Server Appliance increases in popularity, we plan to make this the definitive deployment model in the future.
There are several advantages of the vCenter Server Appliance over the Windows version of vCenter Server:
- We can provide support for the entire vCenter Server stack including vCenter Server itself and the underlying operating system and database. By doing so, we can ensure customers have a single source for updates, security patches, and support.
- Since the base platform on which the vCenter Server Appliance will operate on is completely maintained by VMware, there is a tremendous amount of optimization at the same time as a great reduction in unneeded services and attack surface.
- VMware can innovates at an accelerated pace, and customers should expect to see advancements soon in areas including High Availability (HA).
Packaging applications as appliances simplifies deployment and operations, letting you focus on workloads and applications rather than the infrastructure. Maintenance tasks and downtime are minimized because there are no longer dependencies on monthly patch cycles with a general-purpose operating system. As we move forward, we encourage you to migrate to vCenter Server Appliance for a much improved experience.
The vCenter Server Appliance is available for you to download here.
VMware will no longer offer the vSphere C# client in the next release of vSphere. This approach will allow VMware to deliver the interface experience our customers are demanding in today’s fast paced IT environment. Read more.
The vSphere Web Client of Tomorrow
The vSphere Web Client is a tool that is used nearly every day by IT to manage the operations of the virtual data center. We believe that this tool must be world class, intuitive to use, and responsive. VMware is actively working to deliver a new version of this tool based on the HTML5 and JavaScript languages. This client will have several key benefits over existing clients:
- Completely written in HTML5 and JavaScript with no dependency on Flash or Java
- Operating system independent and supported on all leading web browsers
- Better performing than current Flex Web Client
- Partner Plugins that make managing third party elements more seamless
VMware has already had some success with previous HTML 5 clients including the Host Client Fling and the Platform Services Controller Interface. The HTML5 Host Client is now included as a fully supported feature of vSphere 6.0 Update 2. Building on this success, a Fling of the HTML5 Web Client is now available for you to try in your current vSphere environment.
Get Ecosystem Support with the VMware Web Client Certification Program
We are pleased to announce the VMware Web Client Certification Program, which allows partners to develop plugins for the HTML5 Web Client and vCenter Server and have them tested, validated and signed by VMware. These certified plugins will be available on the VMware Solutions Exchange and will enable you to back-up and protect your data, manage your servers and networks, and secure your data directly from vCenter Server.
Learn more about this program and see some early program members.
RESOURCES
Explore these business and technical resources to learn more about vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere Web Client.
vSphere Web Client and Web UI
- How to Perform Common Tasks in the vSphere Web Client
- Web-based Management for the VCSA is Back!
- vSphere Update Manager – Fully Integrated Interface with the vSphere Web Client
- Introducing the Platform Services Controller Interface in vCenter Server 6.0 Update 1
- Significant Performance Improvements Come to the vSphere Web Client 5.5 Update 3
- vSphere 6 Web Client UI Deep Dive – vMotion