vCenter Configuration Manager Reviews

We used the solution to manage the virtual infrastructure in my previous company.

vCenter Configuration Manager is an easy-to-use solution with good performance and cost management.

Users need to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which could be cheaper.

I have some servers running on a disaster recovery site, and I need some tools to migrate those servers to my primary data center.

I have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for six years.

I rate vCenter Configuration Manager a nine out of ten for stability.

vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution.

The solution's initial setup was straightforward, and we deployed it in one working day.

Overall, I rate vCenter Configuration Manager ten out of ten.

My primary use case is for this solution is for server administrator management. This solution is deployed on-premises. 

This is the best solution for management for the server administrator. VMware has been on the market for many years, so they have a lot of solutions. For on-premises, VMware is the best available solution. 

I expect VMware to move to cloud technology soon, so I have no changes to suggest. 

My company has been using this solution for over ten years. 

This solution is stable. Compared to Hyper-V, this solution is a completely stable and independent hypervisor solution. Windows always has a bug, security issues, everything. So Hypervisor tops Hyper-V. 

There are about 500 to 1,000 people in our organization using vCenter. Our environment contains around 200 servers. 

We rarely contact support, but when we do we usually contact the 24-hour support. 

I haven't explored anything regarding installation, but I assume it's a straightforward process. 

I implemented through an in-house team. We have a team of seven people who are VMware certified engineers to manage the servers. 

This product is not cheap. I have a yearly license for vCenter and the license is not cheap. 

I rate vCenter a ten out of ten and recommend it to anyone who is looking into implementing it. However, if you have less than 10 servers, you don't need to go for the vCenter, you can just use the Hyper-V. It depends on the company staff. 

Everything is going to the cloud, so I think this version 6.5 will be the last on-premises version. 

I am not part of VMware Live Recovery (VLR) operation because I have just moved to the cloud.

The tool was beneficial for our company. We work mostly in the banking sector, so that is why we are using it. In India, basically, in the banking sector, we do not use particular open-source products, so the tool is beneficial for us.

From my perspective, I won't recommend any changes in the operations associated with VMware Live Recovery (VLR).

The tool needs to improve its interface.

I have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for more than six months to a year. I use the solution in my company as a customer of the tool.

I have not participated in the implementation of vCenter Configuration Manager. I only participate in the tool's implementation if I continuously participate in the operations associated with VMware Live Recovery (VLR). As of now, I am not working with VMware Live Recovery (VLR).

I am satisfied with vCenter Configuration Manager.

Right now, we are not facing any issues with the tool. If we are facing any issues with the tool, we have raised a ticket with VMware's team.

I am not familiar with the tool's AI capabilities.

There are so many more options in the market.

If any company mostly works on open-source products, I won't recommend the tool to such people.

I rate the tool a seven to eight out of ten.

Its purpose is to manage virtualization environments.

vCenter alone is enough for me because vCenter is a cluster environment and cluster solution for virtualization environments. So, vCenter is enough.

There is room for improvement in operating and managing cluster environments and maintenance. And hardware environment visibility.

I have used this solution for ten years. 

It is a stable product. 

It is scalable enough for our company.

The customer service and support are good. The recommendations given by support are good.

Neutral

I used Hyper-V. We opted for vCenter because of its scalability, competency, and trust in VMware software.

The initial setup is easy. 

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

The MBRS is very useful. 

It's been very stable and reliable. 

We can scale the solution as needed. 

It is a very easy to set up product.

Their licensing needs to be improved. They used to provide business licenses for smaller businesses. I'm not sure if that is the case any longer. 

I've been using the solution for the last ten years. 

The solution is reliable. It is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

We can scale the solution as needed. It's not a problem.

I've never dealt with technical support in the past. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are to those that need assistance. 

It's not covered. The issue may be the license. 

The initial setup is very simple and straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

I'd rate the process five out of five in terms of implementation. 

The pricing varies. There are different types of licenses you can get, including standard, professional, or professional plus.

I'd rate the cost four out of five in terms of affordability. 

For the data center, for a VM user or workflow, it's excellent software. If you want to use Nutanix or the SimpliVity it is good as well. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

We have some customers in our company, and we deliver the virtual infrastructure throughout the vCenter portal. We get them some resource pools, and they manage the resource pools. In some cases, if you want to have, for example, a resource manager portal, you can use the Cloud Director. But in most cases, we use the vCenter as a resource pool manager. We also use Vcops for operations management, insight manager, and VMware vRealize Log Insight.

vCenter has some good user experience, and the initial setup is straightforward. 

It would be better to integrate this infrastructure with native cloud environments, but we can't do it. We are trying to improve our experience by converting our infrastructure through virtualization on native cloud environments and workloads. It's the most important thing for us. I think that it should be tightly coupled with native cloud environments.

I have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for nearly eight years.

We are not using these products on a very large scale. For example, we use it for 100 servers and not for 1,000 servers. We are using them in a few clusters based on their CPU types. On this scale, we are satisfied with the products. But we don't know if we want to ramp up to larger scales. We don't know if that is suitable or not.

The initial setup was straightforward. It didn't take a long time to deploy this solution.

We used the engineers and assistants. We are training them, and they are doing some VMware courses with some consultants that are experts in these environments. We have an expert consultant that trains the people that work in our environments.

Their licensing costs are high. But I think for the scale that we are using, it's suitable. If you use it on a larger scale with many servers, you have to pay a lot of money for them. I think it's suitable for organizations that don't need expert people that want more money each year or each month because it's a straightforward solution. We prefer to pay for these products that are integrated and straightforward.

We tested OpenStack, but I think it's for more complex environments, and we should pay more money to experts who can maintain this infrastructure.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give vCenter Configuration Manager an eight.

We use vCenter Configuration Manager at least four times a year. We start at the baseline, deploy the virtual machine's upgrade, and set the new parameters for the virtual machine. 

We use vCenter Configuration Manager for the configuration of vCenter, the DC host, and all the HP. Every time the HP sends logs or patches, we deploy them through vCenter Configuration Manager. We also use the vRealize Log Insight. I'm connected at this moment through vCenter.

vCenter Configuration Manager is pretty simple.

They should make it easier to log in and communicate with them. At the moment, I'm using vRealize Log Insight because it's a pretty easy tool to keep up to date with everything. But it would be easier if I could do it through vCenter Configuration Manager. I think the logging side should be improved because it's pretty difficult to keep up to date VMware and with vCenter.

vCenter Configuration Manager is stable. One or two of our servers are very old machines, and the stability was pretty intuitive to get the information, so we made it inclusive. We made some adjustments with our machine to get more results to include more machines in the VMware environment.

vCenter Configuration Manager is scalable. I really like it.

Technical support is perfect. We activated it at least four times, and it was wonderful.

It's easy to set up and implement vCenter Configuration Manager. To configure the whole thing, including the hub, the whole deployment, including the integration of 100 servers, took us about six months. It takes less than a month just to configure vCenter.

I would recommend vCenter Configuration Manager to potential customers.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give vCenter Configuration Manager a ten.

We are responsible for the planning stage only, and we gradually do monthly-based monitoring and capacity utilization of the IT infrastructure. Based on our findings, we do some brainstorming to determine if there was an error or if it was due to less processing or storage capacity or memory management, those kind of things. So we use this program to do internal planning, basically.

People will purchase this solution because it is cost-effective and it suits ERP or CRM for the virtual environment solution. Azure is currently very popular in India, and some are using VMware on the Microsoft platform or on Red Hat Linux.

I find the vMotion and the DRS very valuable and important, as it is required for any medium or large IT solution for business applications.

Customers who want a business solution, should try to implement the IDL based processes for configuration management, patch management, release management and asset management. It will improve the life cycle management of their solution.

I am very familiar with this program, as I've been using it for almost fourteen years now.

We haven't had any stability issues.

I believe the program is scalable. We have at least three to four people at each site, depending upon the capacity of the internal users within our organization site.

We have support partners with VMware and Microsoft. We give our solutions to the clients based on their requirements, and then we also use the program ourselves. The technical support is not bad. It is good internally for our organization, and we are not facing any problems now. We have not taken platinum support, so our teams that are operating from the client site will have to wait longer to get their problems fixed. That is because every OEM has layers of support for platinum, gold, silver, and those kinds of things.

The initial setup wasn't really complex, it's just that the system integrator and the client should sit together and plan the basic things. They should write down in detail how to collect the information of the IT and non-IT comments, as well as data classification, so that those can be populated into the asset as well as the Configuration Management tool, and subsequently the tool can be used in a better way.

Deployment doesn't take that long. If the data is available, it can be configured within three to four days, after certifying the valid data by the customer. Data collection takes up more time and, again, it depends on the customer, whether it is government or private. If it is government, it takes a little more time because some of the departments will be reluctant to share all their data in one go.

It is an affordable program, but I don't know what the licensing fees are.

In some cases, we require more from the solution than what is offered. We usually map these things into the Configuration Management tool so that they are taken care of or made available faster. I think this should be a part of the program so that those things could be reflected faster.

On a scale from one to 10, I will rate the program between 8.5 to 9.5 because in India some of the medium-sized business enterprises are not having a flexible IT budget for a configuration management tool. They prefer that the system integrator should buy it from his own pocket.