Both VMware Virtual Center and Microsoft System Center are centralized management applications for their respective virtualization platform.
Virtual Center is a required piece of many of the advanced VMware ESX Server features but it must be purchased separately. Virtual Center runs on a Windows server and it could use SQL as a backend.

Figure 1: Image Source: VMware.com
System center is covered in more details in the next Q&A
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