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VMware vCenter Protect Standard

Simplified IT Management

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What Is vCenter Protect Standard?

vCenter Protect Standard, designed for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) and departmental needs, provides centralized Windows patch management and asset inventory management for virtual and legacy physical systems. This includes centralized management for Windows operating systems and the most widely used Windows-hosted applications running on both virtual and physical servers and workstations.

VMware vCenter Protect Standard reduces the time to value for IT professionals from months to minutes, enabling customers to manage both physical and virtual machines, deploy software updates, discover assets, and ensure endpoint security. By bringing the sophisticated capabilities enjoyed by large companies to organizations of all sizes and types, VMware is driving the democratization of IT.
KEY BENEFITS

Key Benefits
vCenter Protect Standard offers the following IT management features: Patch management Continuously scans and deploys all available patchesin particular, critical security patchesfor deployed software. vCenter Protect Standard makes patch management, a core of good security, an automated task that does not consume IT administrators time, enabling them to focus on business optimizations. Offline virtual machine patching Scans and patches all of your virtual machines, whether they are currently online or offline. Template virtual machine patching Supports template patch updates to ensure that they are always at a ready patched status consistent with policy. Then, when the templates are brought online, they dont place your network at any security, stability or compliance risk. Agentless and agent-based Offers the industrys leading IT management solution that can seamlessly blend agentless and agent-based technologies to meet the needs of even the most diverse IT environments. Asset inventory Enables you to discover and maintain a current inventory of all hardware and software assets, whether physical or virtual. Snapshot backup recovery Takes and manages snapshots of virtual machinesimmediately before and after patching while automating the backup process, so that a current and relevant backup copy of the virtual machine is immediately available for rollback or disaster recovery.

Automated patch management Provides centralized patch management, asset inventory and legacy physical systems in an integrated solution. Ease of use Provides a single process and a single tool set for discovering physical and virtual machines as they are added. An innovative blend of agentless and agent-based asset discovery allows businesses to find all systems, both physical and virtual, online or offline. Time Puts time back in a system administrators day; VMware does the work so system administrators dont have to.

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What Is vCenter Protect Advanced?

VMware vCenter Protect Advanced is a complete onsite management system designed to meet the needs of the SMB. vCenter Protect Advanced offers agentless, easy-to-deploy and cost-effective management of physical and virtual machines, software update deployment in 28 languages, asset discovery, power management, antivirus, and endpoint security.

Deployment Options Onsite solution Subscription pricing Perpetual pricing IT Management Features Patch management Offline virtual machine patching ITScripts

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Virtual machine template patching Asset management Antivirus Power management

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