VMware vSphere Reviews

We use this solution for virtualization and management.

It's easy to use.

It's a classic solution.

In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service.

I have been using this solution for two years.

I am using version 6.7.

It's a very stable product and we plan to continue using it.

It's a scalable solution. We have approximately 5,000 users, with 150 in the IT team and there are 10 in the admin team.

I have not needed to contact technical support.

The installation is straightforward.

It took a day to deploy.

I completed the deployment myself.

It's a pricey solution. The price could be better.

We pay for licenses on a yearly basis.

We contacted Hyper-V but have never used it.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

We primarily use VMware vSphere just for hosting purposes. We are data center. We create virtual machines and give them to our clients. We deal mostly in gaming.

We only have one virtual machine and we're still exploring it. Overall, it's a super product.

The initial setup is easy.

The product offers good stability.

The solution is too expensive for us and we don't have any funds to direct towards it. We just started the company, which makes it hard to explore the solution the way we want to with the amount of cost involved to do so. They should work to make the licensing more affordable.

I want to be able to use OpenStack, however, I can't do that without vCenter, and it's so cost-prohibitive for us, it's become a problem.

We've only faced one technical issue. That is downloading the virtual machines and uploading the virtual machines. It takes a lot of time and we cannot transfer the VMware from one machine or directly from one server to another. That action requires vCenter. That may only be an issue on the free version and not the pro version. On the pro version, you have much better features. 

It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine. Billing should also be done automatically. Perhaps this is already the case, however, I haven't really had a chance to explore it fully.

While I'm currently on the free version, I'd like to have the ability to explore the pro version to see what is on offer there.

I've been working with the solution for the last three years.

The product is very stable. We don't have issues with bugs or glitches and it doesn't fail or crash. It's reliable.

The solution may be scalable. However, we haven't personally attempted to scale anything due to our general lack of funds and the expansiveness of the product. Therefore, I can't really speak to scalability so much.

I'm currently also working with another product called KVM. It's much more affordable than vSphere.

The initial setup is not difficult or complex. We found it to be straightforward and easy.

The solution is extremely expensive, especially for startups such as ours, who don't have the capacity to invest so much in such a product.

Overall, I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. Everything it does, it does very well, even among all of the competition that exists in India. However, price-wise, for us, it's not ideal.

I haven't explored much, however, from what I have seen, they really do cover everything.

Our primary use case is to implement a high availability server environment.

It helps to automate the data replication and DR.

The feature that I have found most valuable is the auto recovery during failure.

The scalability of the solution should be improved.

The scalability needs improvement.

We virtualize our infrastructure with this solution. 

We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents. 

I would like to see more software as a service solutions.

The tech support is very good.

The setup was a bit complex at first. Now, it is more simple. 

The implementation was fast.

The pricing is a little expensive, and the licensing is a bit complex. 

We use vSphere to manage our virtual servers. We have about 50 spread across our main company as well as another company that we own. We use them to manage the applications which are attached to different tasks.

It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized.

• Usability
• Convenience

It could use a smaller learning curve.

It has been very stable since we did the most recent upgrade.

It is scalable.

I would definitely recommend the product. 

• HA
• DRS
• Snapshot
• FT
• vMotion
• SvMotion

It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs. Previously, we did not have this option.

The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity.

I've used it for six years.

We have not had any issues with deployment.

We have not had any issues with stability over the six years we have been using the solution.

The solution has scaled well.

I would give the technical support 7-8/10.

In terms of the setup, it was generally straightforward overall. However, it was relatively complex to set-up vRealize Automation 6.

Implementation was done in-house.

We made an ROI after three years of using the solution.

My advice when it comes to pricing is that pricing is a bummer, especially when it comes to SnS coverage. From the feedback I have received from other users, that’s a concern for most of the customers.

The products we looked at prior to this one were Hyper-V and RHEV.

Overall, I strongly recommend this product.

One of the most valuable features of this product is the integration of VMware vSphere. If you have experience with this product, it is very simple to configure and use. With minimal studying, you can configure and manage it.

The main improvement we found is the simplification of configuration. No more SAN configuration is required; no more complex configuration of LUN and presentation to the VMware infrastructure.

I think this product has a lot of areas for improvement.

First of all, there’s no agnostic option of vSAN to use it with another hypervisor. The only option is to present the storage via NFS (iSCSI will be available with version 6.5). The problem with this configuration is that you lose all the benefits of HCI. Essentially, you transform the vSAN into a network data store.

Also, no PIN to SSD: If you have a hybrid mix of disks, you can’t configure a PIN for a particular VM on a particular SSD.

Additionally, some features are only available on the all-flash version.

Deduplication and compression are enabled cluster-wide. There is a way to disable these options, but the problem is that you can’t enable this option in any combination you want. Essentially, compression and deduplication are either both on or both off. This is not good if you intend to use it for an application like SQL server and Oracle DB.

The vSAN license not very cheap.

I’ve been testing and studying it for about 6 months.

The scalability with these kind of nodes is fantastic, because you can scale out with any resource you want.

• Storage space (each server has 24 hard disk slots).
• RAM can be upgraded to 1.5TB for each node.

The only problem is that it’s not possible to scale on CPU. So if you want to scale on CPU, you have to buy 3 CPUs in one shot (with numbers of core), or buy another node. We know HCI work in this way.

I have never used support until this point. We have good enough skills to fix problems without support for now.

We used old-style infrastructure with a SAN data store and blade center. We changed to simplify infrastructure management.

Installing a complete VMware with three nodes, vSphere Software Appliance, and all things related took some time. So its not so easy and not so fast.

We evaluated lot of alternatives, both standard infrastructure and HCI infrastructure. Coming from a previous VMware vSphere installation, we choose the same product for continuity.

Its important to have experience with VMware products, and licensing is not very cheap.

VMware leads the pack with their hypervisor. It's a tiny install, but it's packed with features.

The setup can be complicated for those who are not technically inclined. The pricing can also be complicated.

I've used it for 10 years now.

We did encounter issues during deployment, but they were mostly because of human errors.

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.

In my experience, I give VMware customer service a 7/10.

In my experience with technical support, I give them a 7/10.

The initial setup was straightforward, unless you not technically inclined, in which case it is complex.

We implemented it with out in-house team.

The pricing and licensing with VMware can be complicated, but once you understand it, it makes sense.