[ TIP OF THE DAY ] VMware vSphere, vCenter and ESXi. (Explained)

(1) VMware vSphere is a product suite. It isn’t a single product, or a single entity. vSphere consists of two main components: ESXi and vCenter, when you talk about vSphere, you are talking about the combination of these two products. (2) VMware vSphere ESXi is the software that runs on your physical server to allow virtual machines to run on it. This software is a special type of software called a hypervisor. (3) VMware vCenter is the management component of VMware vSphere, it's the brains of your vSphere environment. It brings features like DRS, HA, and more to vSphere.

For large enterprises, there are:
vSphere Standard
vSphere Enterprise Plus
vSphere Platinum

For smaller environments:
VMware vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus

To deploy vSphere in more distributed:
VMware vSphere Remote Branch Office Editions.