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As of March 2025, the mindshare of VMware vSphere in the Server Virtualization Software category stands at 17.8%, down from 19.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryServer Virtualization SoftwareMar 27, 2025Download
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Educational Organization
30%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Comms Service Provider
4%
University
4%
Healthcare Company
3%
Retailer
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Media Company
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Construction Company
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Non Profit
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%

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JH
Lead IT Systems Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of VMware vSphere
Oct 17, 2018
Product version discussed: v6.7
VCHA is a nice redundancy feature, while VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on data stores is a quality of life improvement

Pros

"Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface."
SC
Information Systems Analyst at San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
Verified user of VMware vSphere
Oct 15, 2018
Product version discussed: v6.7
We can do VM encryption on the fly, adhere to PCI DSS, and pass our audit without issue

Pros

"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."

Cons

"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
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Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Verified user of VMware vSphere
Nov 26, 2024
Product version discussed: eight
Streamlines virtualization and has features like high availability and vMotion

Pros

"The vMotion feature is beneficial for online migration of virtual machines from one host to another without downtime. "

Cons

"Customers face challenges due to increased costs after VMware's acquisition by Broadcom."
RJ
Server Support Engineer at CIPL - Corporate Infotech Pvt Ltd
Verified user of VMware vSphere
Nov 24, 2024
Extremely useful as we can manage between 100 and 1,000 hosts using just one management tool

Pros

"The most supportive features of VMware vSphere include high availability and DRS. "

Cons

"One area for improvement is the documentation, especially after VMware was transferred to Broadcom. Sometimes, it is difficult to find documentation for specific tools and solutions."
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Senior Systems Analyst at Manufacturing Organization
Verified user of VMware vSphere
Aug 28, 2018
Increased density of virtualized servers enables a lot of page sharing and memory sharing

Pros

"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."

Cons

"In the last couple of years, the breaking apart of specific added benefits and charging license upcharges for them. That would be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra products, especially when it's a couple of grand here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here and there. It's hard for an IT administrator or an architect to sell to upper management. When they're seeing so much ROI from the Hypervisor, it's hard to show them that there is extra value in the additional products that can be tied on top."
VL
CIO at Robusta Technology & Training
Verified user of VMware vSphere
    Jan 13, 2015
    vSphere vs. RHEV vs. Hyper-V vs. XenServer
    BS
    IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
    Verified user of VMware vSphere
    Apr 10, 2019
    Makes Resources Available & Services More Reliable

    Pros

    "The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."

    Cons

    "We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
    BM
    System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
    Verified user of VMware vSphere
    Oct 15, 2018
    HA and DRS make sure our machines are always available, while encrypted VMs enhance security

    Pros

    "One of the most valuable features that vSphere has is its HA and DRS protection, where it can simply make sure that all the machines are always where they need to be and how they need to be taken care of. We have a lot of servers and services for emergency services for police, fire, and the like. We have the ability to use DRS as Anti-Affinity Rules to make sure that those redundant server pairs always stay away from each other. But then, if anything would happen to one of them, we have HA to be able to come up and bring it right up and going again."

    Cons

    "I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."