VMware vSphere Reviews

• vMotion
• DRS
• HA

It uses less data-room space, and has lower cost and power consumption, giving us much bigger cost savings.

I wish they would maintain thick clients and web clients, so you can choose which to go with.

It's great, just natural hiccups during the upgrade process, but we straightened out those issues.

It's fantastic, able to go as big as you want to go, so long as the backend and databases to support are big enough.

Used tech support for upgrades over the years, and they were good. They were better before partnering with EMC, and not a little more drawn out (ticket, open case, priorities, etc.). Don’t work with TAM.

I was not involved when they did the initial setup. In a prior job, in a big environment, the setup was smooth in moving to 5.5 from 4.1

Budget appropriately, so look at yhr infrastructure, and have no fear on the VMware side because it's a great product.

Nothing is perfect, and something will always have an issue.

vSphere provides a lots of great features. In my opinion, VMotion is a feature that helps save time, cost, and effort.

You can arrange for system maintenance at any time you want without required downtime.

We've used it to implement a virtual datacenter server for in-house applications and services and have achieved a green and efficient virtual datacenter.

After consolidating all the physical machines in our datacenter onto vSphere, we have also achieved faster server provisioning. With the help of templates, we have reduced the time from weeks to several minutes and, therefore, we can provide services for other departments nearly instantaneously.

I think that all the improvements VMware could make would be related to monitoring. vSphere should be equipped with a better monitoring solution.

I have been using VMware products for 8 years.

Starting with testing software on a VMware Workstation box, and then virtualizing all IP services such as routing, DHCP, DNS, etc with an ESXi 4.1 host. And lately transformed almost services to VMware vSphere 5.0.

As with any software, ESXi and vSphere have their own requirements, but if you meet the requirements for hardware, network, storage, etc., then deploying a vSphere system is just easy as pie.

It's efficient and very stable.

VMware helps scaling with VMware vSphere is just easy by adding more ESXi hosts to an existing cluster, and then vSphere DRS will does the work for you like monitoring resources and spreading VMs to balance workloads on all the hosts between that cluster.

I have not made any calls during the time we have been running vSphere.

I have used KVM and Microsoft Virtual Server before switching completely to VMware vSphere. With VMware vSphere, we have a good management tool, with easy provisioning, and easy troubleshooting.

It is a quite straightforward setup. It’s just a easy-to-follow wizard installer, and I don’t think that there is an easier way to do it.

Pricing and licensing models vary, and are dependent upon your organization requirements and operations. Always start with the minimal licensing model then, later, upgrade to meet your needs.

Due to the simplicity of vSphere deployment, the ease of management, and the small footprint of its hypervisor, we decided to use it without wasting time on other products.

We were seeking a green and an efficient solution for our datacenter. We found vSphere to be a great product and decided to become their customer.

When working with vSphere, I think you always have to take three things into consideration:

• Know your system requirements - are there any compatibility issues, or performance impacts etc.
• Monitor the current physical infrastructure so you have a specific resource consumption, and can then develop the best investment plan
• Make a transformation plan from the physical infrastructure to the virtualized one

We use VMware vSphere to deploy and manage VMs. 

The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily. 

The solution needs to improve its stability. 

I have been using the solution for six to seven years. 

VMware vSphere is stable. I rate it seven out of ten. 

Technical support is not available in the free version. However, you can get support from the community. 

VMware vSphere's deployment is easy. It doesn't take more than 20 minutes. You can download it from the official website and install it. 

We are using the tool's free version. 

VMware vSphere's community is good. I recommend using the product if you are in the initial career phase and need to deploy a few virtual machines for testing purposes. For more extensive virtualization needs in a production environment, especially when dealing with many VMs, opting for VMware ESXi, its upgraded version, would be a prudent choice. I rate it eight out of ten. 

VMware vSphere is used for virtualization.

The performance of VMware vSphere is good.

I have been using VMware vSphere for approximately 10 years.

VMware vSphere is a stable solution. However, the bug could be fixed to make it better. Sometimes the new release of the solution can bring errors.

I am satisfied with the scalability of VMware vSphere.

We have approximately 20 people using this solution.

I have been satisfied with the support from VMware vSphere.

The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy.

There are not any licensing costs.

I rate VMware vSphere a ten out of ten.