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Utpal Baruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Essential Utilities Corp.
Real User
Top 20
Useful in internal business processes and needs improvement in stability
Pros and Cons
  • "We use the solution for internal business purposes."
  • "Microsoft Virtual Server needs to improve its stability."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for internal business purposes. 

What is most valuable?

The solution is stable. 

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Virtual Server needs to improve its stability. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability an eight out of ten. 

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool is scalable. 

What about the implementation team?

Microsoft Virtual Server's deployment can be done in-house. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Some of the licensing costs are monthly, and others are yearly. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate Microsoft Virtual Server an eight out of ten. 

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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BI GOORE LEA SEMI - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at VERINET
Real User
Top 20
A highly scalable product that improves security and provides flexibility in server management
Pros and Cons
  • "The dashboard is valuable to us."
  • "The product must reduce the cost by 40%."

What is our primary use case?

It is a good solution. If a company must have 100 physical servers, it can virtualize all those servers using Virtual Server. From a hundred physical servers, they can come to four physical servers. We can reduce the consumption.

What is most valuable?

The product helps with server management. It adds value to the business. It improves security and server management and reduces the cost of handling data filters. We can also add space for doing other things. The dashboard is valuable to us. It provides flexibility in the management of multiple servers. The tool provides flexibility in the configuration of different servers.

What needs improvement?

The solution must improve its pricing.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool is very stable. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool is very, very scalable. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. Our clients are small, medium, and large enterprises. The solution fits any requirement.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very easy and straightforward. The deployment takes four hours.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The product must reduce the cost by 40%.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Microsoft is better than Linux.

What other advice do I have?

People who want to use the product need to make a good assessment of their needs, build the right licensing program, and hire a great team to implement and support the solution. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
Real User
Top 20
A robust and reliable solution that enables collaboration across multiple teams
Pros and Cons
  • "The product is reliable."
  • "The product must provide better data analytics."

What is our primary use case?

We are a bookmaking firm. The solution is quite good for collaboration across multiple teams.

What is most valuable?

The product is reliable.

What needs improvement?

The product must provide better data analytics.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for 15 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool is stable and accessible. It’s a robust and reliable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool is scalable. We have 15 users. We use it every minute of the day.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is simple. It is a cloud solution. Our operating system is server-based. To deploy the tool, we spoke to our software provider and linked up with a company that offers hosting services to deploy it on the cloud.

What about the implementation team?

A third-party vendor helped us implement the solution. They also help us with maintenance and support.

What was our ROI?

The product’s reliability and accessibility are valuable to us.

What other advice do I have?

I will recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Student at Inderprastha Engineering College
Real User
Top 5
A scalable tool that serves not only as an emulator but also as a sandbox to test applications
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a scalable solution...I followed some online tutorials, because of which I did not face any technical issues or the need to contact the solution's technical support."
  • "As certain medium-level complexities are involved in the product's setup process, the product's setup phase can be considered for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

You can use Microsoft Virtual Server as an emulator. You can also set it up over different operating systems or use it as a sandbox to test applications.

What is most valuable?

Based on my use case, I find Microsoft Virtual Server to be useful for Android development.

What needs improvement?

As certain medium-level complexities are involved in the product's setup process, the product's setup phase can be considered for improvement.

In the future releases of the solution, I want the solution to be a more user-friendly UI.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Virtual Server for two weeks.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten since I am not very familiar with the solution presently.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

I followed some online tutorials, because of which I did not face any technical issues or the need to contact the solution's technical support.

How was the initial setup?

Since the initial setup of the product is neither easy nor difficult, I would describe the setup phase to be of an intermediate level.

The solution's deployment process took me an hour to complete.

The solution is deployed on a local system and not on the cloud.

What about the implementation team?

I managed the solution's deployment process.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There is no need for me to pay anything towards the solution's licensing costs.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it. Initially, one should only follow the basic steps provided by the solution.

I rate the overall product an eight to nine out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Le Ban - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Manager & Chief IT Engineer at JVPC
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Has cheap price but needs to improve network performance
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the tool's cheap cost."
  • "Microsoft Virtual Server should improve its network performance."

What is our primary use case?

I use the tool to reset servers. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the tool's cheap cost. 

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Virtual Server should improve its network performance. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for more than ten years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft Virtual Server is stable. 

What about the implementation team?

We did the deployment in-house. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate Microsoft Virtual Server a seven out of ten. 

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Data Engineer at Berief Food GmbH
Real User
Top 5
User-friendly product with good scalability features
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft Virtual Server is user-friendly."
  • "The platform’s dashboard features could be better."

What is most valuable?

Microsoft Virtual Server is user-friendly.

What needs improvement?

The platform’s dashboard features could be better.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate Microsoft Virtual Server’s stability a seven or eight out of ten. Sometimes, we have to restart it while updating firmware every six months.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The platform has good scalability. We have more than 40 servers and 975 clients using it. 

How was the initial setup?

We can refer to many YouTube tutorials for the platform’s setup procedures. It helps our executives from the IT department. It takes ten minutes to complete and requires a team of five executives for the configuration.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is an expensive product.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Microsoft Virtual Server an eight out of ten. It is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses, as per my experience.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Deepanshu Thakur - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Mandelbulb Technologies
Real User
Top 5
Offers good performance while also being useful in areas like testing and development
Pros and Cons
  • "The performance and scalability offered by the tool meet our company's expectations."
  • "Microsoft Virtual Server's cost was an area of concern...I feel Microsoft Virtual Server will be stopped in a couple of months or a couple of years, and it will be completely replaced with SQL Server data warehouse and Microsoft Fabric."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution in my company depending on our client's problems. My company has used Visual Studio Code based Modeler along with Microsoft Virtual Server.

In my company, we have been using Microsoft SQL Server on virtual machines to help us decide if we want to use the tool as a PaaS solution offering or if we want to use it as an offering meant for virtual machines. Microsoft SQL Server on a virtual machine is known as Microsoft Virtual Server.

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Virtual Server has already been improved since Microsoft Fabric is available. Microsoft SQL's data warehouse is available as a component within Microsoft Fabric.

Microsoft Virtual Server's cost was an area of concern. Microsoft Fabric and the shared costing structure have already mitigated the price-related shortcomings of Microsoft Virtual Server.

I feel Microsoft Virtual Server will be stopped in a couple of months or a couple of years, and it will be completely replaced with SQL Server data warehouse and Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Fabric has unified all the technologies, like real-time analytics, with data warehouses and then with the use of Power BI on top of data warehouses. Microsoft plans to get rid of all the separate components and start pitching Microsoft Fabric as an alternate solution to all its different or related services offered, but it could take some time, and it will not be an overnight switch. The long-term plan for Microsoft is to unify all its services under Microsoft Fabric.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Virtual Server for more than a year. My company has a partnership with Microsoft.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The performance and scalability offered by the tool meet our company's expectations.

My company deals with small, medium, and enterprise-sized companies that use the tool.

How are customer service and support?

The support provided for the product is satisfactory. If the product team gets involved, I rate the support a ten out of ten, but otherwise, I rate it seven or eight.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The product's initial setup phase was easy because of the documentation.

The time required to deploy the product depends on the requirements of the tool's customers. From site to site, requirements may vary, but I can say that the product can be deployed in a couple of minutes to a couple of hours.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of the tool was an area of concern since users were forced to buy licenses for Microsoft Virtual Server and ADF separately. The tool's cost has been taken care of with the help of Microsoft Fabric and with a consolidated or unified interface, where the entire product serves as a SaaS offering for the user.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Amazon Redshift was a product that my company had tried, but it can't be compared with Microsoft Virtual Server.

What other advice do I have?

The product is used for testing and development. The effectiveness of the product in the area of testing and development is something that depends on the problem faced by our company's client. Nowadays, our company prefers to do everything on Microsoft Fabric because it also includes Synapse Data Warehouse, which is Azure SQL Data Warehouse's alternative.

The most beneficial area of the product for virtualization needs stems from the fact that one of our company's customers could deploy it on an on-premises system. The tool had always caused issues in areas like security and maintenance, but the product's virtualization has helped as it offers a layer of protection on top of the virtual machines, making it easy to maintain, and in the future if a user wants to move away to a different offering, it is easier to do that on Microsoft Virtual Server.

When it comes to the integration capabilities, similar to the data warehousing capabilities offered by any other solution, the tool offers connection strings, and you have the ability to connect and pull the data, which is usually something that depends on the ETL tool, but Microsoft Virtual Server is quite compatible with the ETL tools, like ADF.

One person can maintain the entire solution.

If people plan to use Microsoft Virtual Server or any other services by Azure, they need to look into Microsoft Fabric since it is a tool with some nice offerings.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Roland Sárosy - PeerSpot reviewer
Android Developer at Fizetési Pont Kft.
Real User
Top 5
The tool is perfectly stable and can be used for virtualization, but it is expensive, and the rollouts must be made easier
Pros and Cons
  • "The tool is perfectly stable."
  • "The product must provide easier rollouts."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for virtual machines.

What is most valuable?

The tool is perfectly stable. It was the only mature option when we were looking for a solution.

What needs improvement?

The product must provide easier rollouts. The booting of virtual servers must be made easier.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for many years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Ten people from our company are using the tool.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was not straightforward. It was a bit of a pain.

What about the implementation team?

The deployment can be done in-house. We required two people for the deployment and maintenance of the product.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have a perpetual license for a specific server. The solution is very expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I do not have much experience with server infrastructure. I recommend AWS to others. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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