Note : VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA)
Two options are available for installing vCenter Server:
- Windows-based installation
- vCenter Server Appliance deployment
Both options provide features such as inventory management, virtual machine migration, high availability, distributed resource scheduling, etc.
vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured SUSE Linux-based virtual machine optimized for running vCenter Server and the associated services(سرویس های مرتبط). It is a prepackaged 64-bit application with an embedded PostgreSQL database that supports up to 100 hosts and 3000 virtual machines.
Note : vCenter Server Appliance comes as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) template