vCenter Configuration Manager Reviews

We utilize vCenter for configuration management. While we don't use it as a manager, we integrate some HTS plugins with vCenter for configuration.

vCenter's configuration management features are crucial for us. Additionally, Skyline is a nice-to-have feature for best practices and issue management.

The platform's certificate management functionality can be challenging, along with troubleshooting when issues arise. Also, improving the backup central store would be beneficial.

Challenges did arise, particularly in terms of stability. However, we managed to overcome them through diligent troubleshooting and assistance from the support team. 

I rate the stability a nine out of ten. 

Scalability-wise, vCenter serves our business requirements adequately.

We've reached out for support. While the response time was good, there's room for improvement in addressing more complex issues.

In large implementations, especially in regulated environments, vCenter's automation capabilities prove invaluable for implementing new processes efficiently.

Ensure your infrastructure is stable and that you have a clear understanding of your requirements. Overall, vCenter is user-friendly and adaptable.

I rate the product an eight. 

What I like is the ability to spin up a virtual machine from an image, which makes my backup policy much easier.

The solution is stable and reliable. 

There is always room for improvement. The VxRail configuration is very complicated and a little bit too difficult to guess what the final product is going to be.

The product needs better integration with security tools. It's a feature that you wouldn't need to have for something like Cisco or that type of thing. Something of that magnitude would already be built into the product.

I don't use it myself. I'm just designing the system. My specialty is SIEM and analytics tools. I don't really touch that.

The stability is good. It does what it is meant to do without issues. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

I can't speak about the process involved in the initial setup. It's not really my job to spin it up and make it work, so to speak. I'm just there to use it and help people to configure it. If need be, there are infrastructure people for that.

The pricing goes back to the configuration. Sometimes for weeks, to work, you need to buy your machines - and those are pretty reasonable.

We do work for government entities. We are not really a reseller. We just say, "This is what you need to build. This is what we advise you to build in." Eventually, whichever government organization we are working for is going to decide what they're going to take according to which country it is. I'm the Solutions Architect.

For what is currently being used in our organization, I would rate it an eight out of ten. We're mostly happy with its capabilities. 

vCenter makes it easy to manipulate the clusters between machines so that there is no downtime that we can observe on any machine we host on our VMware.

The stability and reliability are great.

The initial setup is quick and easy.

It's a product that can scale.

The solution could provide even more capacity.

We'd like to see more integration capabilities.

I've been using the solution for almost two years. 

The stability has been very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It never crashes or freezes.

We've never contacted technical support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are.

Previously we dealt with VMware only.

The installation is very simple and straightforward. It is not difficult to get everything up and running. 

The initial implementation takes about one hour.

We have two or three people that can handle deployment and maintenance. 

At this point, we can handle the integration ourselves without the help of an integrator.

We pay a yearly licensing fee.

I do not recall the exact version number we are using.

I would rate the solution at a perfect ten out of ten. I've been very happy with its capabilities.

I would recommend the solution to others. It's quite good.

We use the product as a loan management system for a financial organization.

There could be an option for clients to manage the tool as well. Sometimes, it is challenging to solve the issues from our side. In that case, we have to contact VMware for login purposes. Instead, they could provide proper training and guidelines for the clients.

We have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for a few years.

I rate the platform's stability an eleven out of ten.

It is a scalable and reliable platform. It can accommodate a substantial infrastructure, including 600 servers, full NVMe storage, and 32 units of servers for larger businesses.

The technical support services are good.

Positive

We used Nutanix before. They didn't upgrade their licenses. In comparison, vCenter Configuration Manager is the best product in the market.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The product is highly-priced. However, they offer different types of pricing strategies. We have to purchase a bundled license.

The product is easy to integrate with third-party tools. We have deployed the solution in different locations, streamlining server provisioning and management. It helps us solve hardware-level issues in terms of critical logs.

I rate it a ten out of ten.

The client I'm working with is basically a national ISP, and they are hosting multiple services and a couple of mail servers and hosting servers. So, basically, clusters are made with multiple hardware and things are running on them.

The clustering part and the load balancing part are most valuable.

Error reporting should be more precise and descriptive, and there is no way to filter the logs. It would be helpful if its logs analysis can be more detailed, and the logs can be filtered.

I have been using this solution for about three years.

Its stability is good. It is stable and very traditional.

It is indeed scalable. In terms of the number of users, we have three or four admin users. 

In this company, presently, there is not much scope for increasing the usage. It is currently able to meet their requirements. They're using it on a small scale, and they don't need all of its features. Whatever is there at the moment is sufficient for them. I'm not sure if there is an immediate requirement for expansion. They might scale up, but it is going to take time. 

I never needed any support.

Previously, I used to use Hypervisor and OpenStack, but a lot of involvement was there, so we slowly switched to VMware vCenter.

It was quite easy. It didn't take a long time. Anyone with basic networking knowledge can do it.

We didn't use an integrator or a consultant.

It is on a yearly basis.

I would rate vCenter Configuration Manager a nine out of 10.

Our clients use it to get real, in-depth information about how the environment is being used; to see if they have to scale up, scale down, scale out.

Our clients have better knowledge of how they have to provision hardware and when they will need to provision hardware. It makes for more predictable environments. It prevents future problems.

The most valuable feature is the ability to see which virtual machines need more resources or are over-committed.

It can take a long time for the first information to become available. On the other hand, that's normal. It has to collect a lot of information before it can predict future needs. But it would be nice if there was some kind of base level to get started.

Stability is great, in my experience.

The scalability is also great. It can scale out as far as you want to go.

My clients already have VMware. In terms of investing in a new solution, most of the time my clients already have problems that they're not aware of, or they feel like they don't have control. That's when I get hired, to see if I have the knowledge, along with the knowledge of the VMware products, that can help them in the future. They don't have the internal knowledge for deploying and configuring all their VMware.

The initial setup is pretty much straightforward. You just implement an OVA, answer some questions for IP settings and how large the environment is that you want to monitor, and then the install configures itself. You have to configure some plug-ins, but there's no rush on that.

ROI depends on the size of the environment. If you have more than 1,000 virtual machines, you should definitely install this type of software. The time to ROI depends on whether you configured a new cluster. In that case, you probably have enough resources, but we want to know how far you can go in your cluster, how many virtual machines you have left, given the space.

It's a large application. It consumes a lot of resources. Sometimes the price is too high for our customers. If they buy it directly from VMware, its hard to convince the customer that we will bring down the total cost of ownership, in the end.

If they have an SLA, most of the time the solution is included in the license, and it's easier to get it deployed to the customer.

Some of our clients evaluate Nutanix. They go with VMware because it's an enterprise company, and most of my customers are enterprise. They want the full support of an enterprise company. It's supported through all the specs, not only the hardware but all the applications.

You should definitely go for this solution. Without this type of tooling, you're not aware of how your environment is functioning. You don't know if you are over-committed, or if you need to downsize. You get more inside information, and that's always useful.

My primary use case is for migration, to manage my host, if you have three ESXi, more than one ESXi, you need to manage all of them by vCenter.  The jobs that I do with vCenter is the emission and the migration with VMware ESXi.

It's a management tool.

It's a very nice solution for our needs. I like the function in vCenter, you can use it and its mission. You can manage your VMs and use, and move VMs from host to another host, without a long time. It's a nice function for me, if I needed to update a host.

The functions are not running in HTML 5, this is a problem. In addition, the interface itself is not very user-friendly. 

There are no issues with the stability of the product. 

I do not necessarily use technical support. If I have a problem in vCenter, I use tertial line and then how to absorb it and then VMware has many curtains about this.

It is a very easy setup. The first time I used it, I set it up in Windows. I have deployed it in a prior employment, too. It was just as easy there, too. 

I am not knowledgeable with the pricing of the product. 

It's the best definition for our virtual environments, especially if you're using a VMware product.

This solution is great for individual storage with servers and installing VMware, vSphere, and vCenter.

It should be easier to use alternate storage.

We have been using this solution since 2012, and we use VMware 7 up to 3d. Additionally, we use software installed on our site.

It is a stable solution with high availability, and we have had no problems. We have two engineers using it. Unfortunately, in our cluster, we do not connect to the Internet because our cluster is offline.

The technical support is useful. You can also find solutions to problems through VMware articles online. If a problem occurs, we use VMware CLI and have a lot of experience with VMware ESXi. We can solve the problem by opening a VMware ticket and have opened only one to two tickets in the last five years.

vCenter has a standard license. As a result, VMware is not expensive compared to all hypervisor prices on the market.

I rate this solution a ten out of ten. There are a lot of licenses, ranging from the standard to the enterprise plus with the operation manager.