What is vCenter?

VMware vCenter Server is a centralized management platform of a VMware vCenter.

If you have deployed VMware vCenter Server, you can use ZStack Cloud to manage VMware vCenters by using public APIs provided by VMware. ZStack Cloud is highly compatible with and can manipulate a portion of features of VMware vCenter Server. You can use the vCenter feature to implement a unified management of multiple virtualization platforms.

You can manage VMware virtualization environments in an existing data center, and view vSphere server resources and VM resources managed by VMware vCenter Server. In addition, you can use VMware vSphere resources in a virtual data center, and perform common operations on VM instances in your VMware vCenter cluster.

ZStack Cloud supports multiple vCenter versions, including 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7.

External Access Fundamentals

ZStack Cloud sends cloud resource control requests to a vCenter by using the asynchronous event listening methods and receives the returned event contents. In addition, ZStack Cloud can also receive contents that are intuitively pushed by vCenters. This way, ZStack Cloud achieves bidirectional data synchronization.