As organizations grow with their VMware vCenter deployment having possibly started out with the features found in the free edition of VMware ESXi, gaining access to the enterprise features and functionality in a vSphere environment requires deploying a VMware vCenter server. What is a VMware vCenter server? How is it deployed? What are some of the best practices in deploying it along with other considerations? Let’s take a look at the process of deploying a VMware vCenter server and consider the aforementioned questions/aspects of the product as we think about growing our VMware infrastructure in an enterprise.