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# What’s the difference between vSphere and vCenter?
<small>what’s the deal with airplane food</small>

| Name    | Desc                                                                 |
| ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| vCenter | interfaces with ESXi hosts, VMs, vSANs, vSwitches, HA, vMotion, etc. |
| vSphere | centralized platform that manages vCenter/VCSA/VCCM and ESXi, etc.   |

## See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_vSphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vCenter

# Other cool tech VMware is pushing

| Name                     | Desc                                                                                                         |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| AppDefense               | manifest driven security platform. Discovery phase takes 2 weeks to figure out what apps need access to what |
| NSX                      | virtualized firewall that sits on top of VMs                                                                 |
| vRealize Network Insight | checks links for integrity and suggests firewall rules for NSX                                               |