VMware vSphere Reviews

Great product for critical production server virtual infrastructure. No any "gamers" in this area. Latest product can help more than previous. VMware Replication, vSphere Data Protection based on AVAMAR technology, new vCPU architecture and more new features says us that it is the one biggest product.

Costs is very expensive. But some cutting features like Vcenter Operations Manager Fundamentls are available in starting versions of vCenter. It is good way for the best marketing from VMware. But Enterprise or higher versions are very expensive.

Now I lead the Upgrade to vSphere 5.1 project in my Company. SSO installation are strange... need to involve DBA in this process. Scripts are not good... This installation must be re-produced. But new features are very great and interesting.

Most usable hypervisor in the industry. It's well documented, really simple and quick to setup.

You can not manage it from Linux.

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

I use VMware vSphere to run all my applications in a private cloud. I had all the applications in the standalone mode. I migrated them to the cloud. 

VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution.

It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director.

They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible.

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

It is very stable.

It is scalable. We have 100 users, and we plan to increase the usage.

The price is very high for professional services. I don't know why.

It is expensive in terms of cost, licensing, and professional services.

I would recommend it for big enterprises. I would rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten. It is the best solution. 

Private Cloud

I have the whole server park in VMware and I have about 14 VDI desktops for Windows 7. I'm not happy with the performance. It's slow. Maybe it's the graphics, because I don't have a graphics card in this server.

It's easy to use.

The problem often is that when I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts.

More than five years.

The stability is very good.

The scalability is also very good.

It's easy to get support.

The setup is pretty easy.

About two years ago I tried XenServer, but it stopped because I tried to use Veeam's software which wasn't compatible with XenServer. So I chose VMware.

VMware is a safe solution and it's a stable solution. I would recommend it.

The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is integration. VMware has the most support for other software solutions, such as backup. That's important to me.

I would rate VMware at eight out of 10. It's good but it's too expensive.

Usability is the most valuable feature.

There is need to resume the C# client.

I have used this solution for six years.

There are no stability issues.

There are no scalability issues.

I would rate the technical support at a seven out of 10. In practice, the IT has faced vCenter related problems very rarely.

We still continue using our other solution. We did not switch.

The setup was very straightforward and simple.

The costs are inflated for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs).

vCenter is the only way to manage vSphere. If we speak about enterprise virtualization infrastructure, there are no special preferences.

Cross vCenter vMotion is a valuable feature.

It allows you to perform vMotion from one vCenter to another vCenter without the need for shared storage, like a cut and paste.

This was not possible until version 6 and is built upon Enhanced vMotion.

It requires L2 network connectivity.

Cross vCenter vMotion can be particularly useful if you have migration projects, or you simply want to shift workloads to different location.

It can be particularly useful if you have plans to move from a VCSA to a Windows Platform vCenter and vice-versa.

If you have shared resources with public/private cloud, you can move them by establishing several vCenters.

One improvement could be to have the vMotion independent of the SSO Domain.

With Cross vCenter vMotion, it is a requirement to have both the source and the destination vCenter on the same SSO domain. It also requires version 6 and above. You cannot have this between a version 6 and 5.5.

I still experience lag with the web interface

• Scalability
• Flexibility
• Vmotion across vCenters

It has helped organise computing into more logical groups, instead of random physical servers all over the place. It has also made the provision of new servers quicker and easier, allowed the space to build proper development infrastructure and also allows quick decommissioning.

The webclient could use more features and a cleaner layout.

I've been using the product for 2 years.

There were no issues with deployment. It was very smooth.

No issues encountered. It has really improved.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability. This is much better now.

No, I did evaluate Hyper-V and Xenserver, but stayed with VMware due to features, despite initial cost difference.

The setup was fairly straightforward. ESX is easy to configure and vCenter is intuitive on top.

We evaluated our current project vendor, but discovered we had more knowledge and accountability in-house.

As I previously mentioned, we evaluated Hyper-V and Xenserver, but we decided to stay with VMware as a result of the features offered.

I would recommend evaluating the features that match what you need before deciding. Use the 60 day trials to test.