VMware vSphere Reviews

• High Availability
• Fault Tolerance
• Live migration
• Reduced the overall cost of the infrastructure
• Centralizing the management.

We were able to centralize the server farm, thus able to focus administrators on their immediate tasks, reduce response time to incidents, concentrate the informational flows, facilitate the task of data protection.

2 years.

The deployment was really easy, migration to the virtualization infrastructure was transparent to the main business.

None encountered for now.

No. If you would plan an infrastructure from the beginning, you would not encounter any issues.

We have never asked for any kind of customer service.

We have never needed any kind of technical support from the vendor.

No, but, in future, we plan to use a Microsoft Hyper-V.

Initial setup was quite straightforward.

The implementation was made by our own team.

Before choosing we didn't evaluate any other options. It was planned to use the VMware as the first queue and the MS Hyper-V as the second one. The reason is in the migration plan of the servers - in the second phase it would be the MS SQL server's, so the MS Hyper-V is more suitable.

Always have a plan for the work document everything.

It is user-friendly, easy to deploy, and easy to maintain.

The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for. 

It has what we need.

There are many add-on modules for it.

It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety.

There are many add-ons that you have to plugin to enjoy the feature or experience the full power of it.

I have been using VMware vSphere for more than five years.

VMware vSphere is a stable product.

It is very scalable.

They were very helpful in resolving the issue that we had.

The initial setup is easy.

I would recommend this solution to others. It is considered to be a leader within the industry.

I would rate VMware vShpere an eight out of ten.

We use it to create virtual machines and things like that.

The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable. 

The enhancements that come out from time to time usually surpass what we need. We tend to upgrade because we do not want to be behind, but our needs don't continually grow. We are not very fast in terms of appetite for new things. However, we do appreciate that there is a continuous improvement, and for us, it is just a matter of being able to spin up a new environment quickly.

An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement.

I have been using this solution for three years.

It is very stable.

Their technical support is great.

It has medium complexity. It isn't necessarily easy to set up. After you have set it up, it is easy to enhance.

I would rate VMware vSphere a nine out of 10.

We are using this solution for a lot of proposes, such as in production environments.

The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years.

The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure.

I have found the solution scalable.

We have approximately 500 people using the solution in my organization.

We have been satisfied with the technical support.

We have used another solution previously.

The installation is straightforward and is easy to manage. It took approximately two hours to install.

We did the implementation of the VMware vSphere and we have a team of 15 that does the implementation and maintenance of the solution. The team consists of managers and heads of departments.

There is a standard license required for this solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

It's a VDI and also for virtualized machines. We use it for digitized databases.

It made provisioning servers and application a lot easier and faster

vVols, vMotion, and vSphere have availability. It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well.

I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved.

I would like to see more active replication in the next release.

3 years

It's very stable. There are some bumps or unintended behavior from time to time, but it has not really been an issue.

It is a scalable solution.

Technical support is not that great, and it's not that accessible.

Oracle Virtualizacion. Was not so user friendly and lacking a lot of features

The initial setup was extremely straightforward.

in-house

The pricing is a little bit on the expensive side, and the licensing is on a yearly basis.

We evaluated a lot of options like Microsoft Hyper-V and Proxmox, and Red Hat Virtualization

I would totally recommend VMware vSphere even though I have some complaints about it. It's one of the great technologies available right now. I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

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 have Hyper-V on a physical machine and another virtual machine. We are using this because of iSCSI, and we are using VMware for performance and production.

The performance is efficient. You can log the performance and report on the bottlenecks or any other problems you encounter.

One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning.

If you are cloning a virtual machine and you have any license on another system it will crash and we have to contact third-party support for assistance.

It's not cloning 100%.

I have been using VMware vSphere for eight years.

We are using version 5 and 6.7.

It's a stable solution, we have not had any issues with stability.

It's a scalable solution. We have three people in our organization who are using this solution.

We did not contact technical support. It wasn't necessary.

We are working with Hyper-V. It was so poor that we started using VMware.

The initial setup was straightforward, it was easy.

The price could be lower.

We are looking for other solutions, specifically for Hyper-V and domain controllers.

I would recommend this solution. It's robust, it's working and it's easy to use.

I would rate VMware vSphere a ten out of ten.

We primarily use this solution for replication purposes we have, and to back up information in HR (High Resolution) mode.

I think they should consider lowering the pricing of entry-level products.

In addition, I think they should come up with a backup feature that is more product enrichment-based. It should be a full-fledged backup solution. It just is not there right now.

The stability of the solution is quite stable.

The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels. We currently have 2000 users. This requires four engineers to run the deployment and maintenance of the solution.

It was complex, and not straightforward. The deployment took six hours initially to setup. Then, we migrated our virtual-physical servers to virtual machines and now coming projects were also built on virtual machines.

The pricing is justified. It may be a bit high, but the features are worth it.

I would advise others to go with this product if they want to scale their enterprise, definitely if there is no budget constraint.