VMware vSphere Reviews

• The cost, as we can run lots of servers on minimal hardware.
• Easy to recover from failures. For example, to replace a memory card, just pull out blade and replace it.

• Smaller footprint
• Ease of keeping uptime
• Reliability

I like web interface less and less, and miss the client interface.

Licensing that makes it easier to justify getting the features I like, such as the enterprise feature where VMs auto balanced among hosts. This needs to be done by hand because that feature is too expensive.

Rock solid, just had one VM file decayed, but no other issues.

Use it very little, but can scale much more. Only have five or six blades, with 10-12 hosts, and 140 VMs.

They're good, friendly, and professional.

It was straightforward.

I had used it before at a former company two years ago, so decided to use it at my current employer, so I didn’t take the company through an evaluation process.

Make sure you have good SysAdmins who have experience with VMware, as this will save money.

• vMotion
• DRS
• HA

The ability to perform consolidation and it's portability, flexibility, and DR capability.

None that I can think of. It's a nicely-evolved product.

Overall, it’s very stable. I'm very impressed, except when running on Dell, but it works on Cisco blades.

It's very scalable, and you can add more as needs dictate. It depends on the ratio and goals for consolidation, so you can scale as you need.

The quality is not quite what it used to be since it was outsourced.

It’s now very easy, was harder but now more deployment options, scripts, auto-deploy, can have full automation or manual, smaller footprint.

vSphere Replication, Storage APIs, vSphere HA, vSphere vMotion.

With VMWare virtualization environment; deploying servers; backing, replication and restoration are done in a matter of minutes.

Mounting ISO's ( You have to copy it onto the server and point to it and perform your installation); Citrix on the other hand allows you to easily mount iso files.

4.5 Years

None that were insurmountable.

VMWare in my experience has proven to be very stable; systems usually run unattended.

With the right amount of resources, additional host and servers can be added within minutes.

Customer Service:

5 out of 5

Technical Support:

5 out of 5

We also have in production Citrix Xenserver; Xenserver does not seem to be friendly with third party integration.

With the right amount of training initial installation is usually straightforward; even in the absence of that it's pretty much straightforward.

Implemented in-house

We evaluated Xenserver.

Its the most production ready virtual platform.

Memory overcommittment and deduplication, allowing higher consolidation ratios.

With VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter, we have a high-performance and stable virtual platform for converting 10 plus physical machines into few virtual machines. 

Reduce operation cost on physical machines, increase availability and performance of virtual operation systems.

3 years.

We have a issue when setup ESXi. There is no response from host machine when connecting VMware ESXi to IBM SAN (v3700), resolved by installing ESXi new patches.

The only setup cost is VMware license, no extra cost is needed as we have a IT team who familiar with VMware products. 

For small-to-medium business, I would recommend to install ESXi on USB stick or SD card. It provides more flexibility and lower cost to setup the virtual platform. 

* User friendly and not complex. * Easy to deploy, manage and troubleshoot. * Scalability and stability. * Highly recommended for mission critical applications and databases. * Aggressive in educating their clients.* User friendly and not complex. * Easy to deploy, manage and troubleshoot. * Scalability and stability. * Highly recommended for mission critical applications and databases. * Aggressive in educating their clients.

VMware should compete against their competitors in terms of Pricing. Hopefully, they can value add some features without any additional cost.

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.

The solution has many uses, such as consolidation, VDI workloads, and server virtualization.

It is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible.

I have been using this solution for a couple of years.

From the years of usage, I have found no issue with the stability of the solution.

The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times.

The initial setup is straightforward but when it comes to consolidation it can become complex quickly in some environments. The time it takes to install depends on many variables. For example, if you are building a data center and are using this solution then it can be complex.

When it comes to maintenance, you do not need a team to handle it. We have found it easy to manage.

The price could improve for the enterprise versions.

I would recommend using a certified skilled implementation team. It can be difficult if you do not have the experience.

I rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

On-premises

We have been using ESXi hypervisors with vCenter. We use it for both private and public clouds.

The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible.

The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper. Customers in our country are very price-sensitive, so if the price were reduced it would be more popular.

We have been working with VMware vSphere for the past decade.

It is a simple product to use and we haven't had any issues with using it, right out of the box. We plan to continue using it in the future.

This is a scalable product. Our entire business and virtual machines run on vSphere, and our customers do, as well.

We have been in contact with technical support and had a good experience. We are satisfied with them.

We did not use another similar solution prior to vSphere.

The deployment is straightforward and probably takes less than 20 minutes per host.

It is easy to install and we did it by ourselves.

We have two engineers who are responsible for maintenance.

This is an expensive product, especially because we need to pay in US Dollars. Really, it depends on the exchange rate. If the exchange in our country is bad then the product becomes even more expensive.

I have evaluated other hypervisors and based on my experience, I find that vSphere is top-rated.

This is a good product and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

On-premises