VMware vSphere Reviews

VMware vSphere is capable of a wide range of tasks, including file sharing, database management, email, active directory, and much more.

The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion.

The performance is good; if I had to rate it, I would give it a nine out of ten.

It is easy to use.

I would like to see the configuration simplified. It should be easier to configure.

I have been working with VMware vSphere for a few years.

I am using version 7.0.

VMware vSphere is a stable product.

It is a scalable solution.

We have 150 customers in our organization.

At this time we do not have any plans to increase our usage.

I have never contacted technical support.

The installation was straightforward.

It took a few hours to complete the installation.

We require two people to maintain this solution.

I was able to complete the installation myself.

Licensing fees are not paid yearly, or monthly.

I would recommend this solution to others who are considering it.

It is quite simple to use. The installation is simple and it is stable. I would rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

Our primary use case for the solution right now is for a project regarding Telecom Italia. We are working with the telecom. It is mostly regarding the private cloud. The main reason for having all of these products and solutions altogether is to reach the cloud director and to have the private cloud for Telecom Italia.

Our organization has seen plenty of benefits from this solution. We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations. For the end-users and customers, it's beneficial because they can run whatever they want in a matter of minutes or hours instead of providing a data center for themselves and running whatever they need. Thanks to all the solutions altogether, it is possible to move the workload and it has high availability in different time zones and different regions. 

There are plenty of features we have found valuable. It has multiple features that we are using every day during our jobs. 

vSphere itself can handle lots of things, but I can say when it comes to other products, we have lots of other availability, lots of other visibilities with the data center that we have. The areas that could be improved are dependent on the project that we are working on and the use cases.

There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating. For example, some features like EVC we have in vSphere, but still, it is not possible to migrate VM from Intel to AMD, or we still have some limitations even if we have EVC for VMs.

These are the features that maybe would be really useful for lots of customers that don't want to have downtime, and at the same time they want to be modernized, go through the new technologies now, cloud and everything.

I have been using VMware for seven years or so.

The solution is stable. With respect to the very traditional workload that we had, one server for one application, one physical server, I can say there are lots of improvements when we are using VMware itself. In the traditional way of doing the work, it was not possible to utilize the CPU, utilize the memory that you are using. But here, we have lots of options like over-commitment of CPU and memory. We can manage our workloads anytime.

It is easily possible to scale the solution and upgrade depending on which products we are using on-premise. We can have a path to scale, to upgrade, to do everything.

Usually when I had to utilize customer support for the solution, it was satisfying based on the priority of raising the ticket.

The initial deployment was straightforward, but again it depends on the use cases. For example, in one project we were working on the deployment and using automation from the customer themselves. They wrote their automation, and it was a little complex to match what they need based on their automation and how we could deploy the products for them.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use the solution mainly for testing our internal systems. We are providing support and solution for clients and we have to test the solutions.

The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere.

I have been using the solution for 10 years.

The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs.

This solution can scale to extremely large environments, it is very scalable. 

We are a company of 35 people and we are using this solution. We have a lot of customers that we are providing consulting and support for VMware.

Customer support is one of the best in the market.

The installation is straightforward and simple because we learned how to do it a long time ago. Even a new user could find it easy.

The licensing price is fair compared to other similar solutions.

When comparing this solution with the others, it is very similar or a bit better.

I rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

The primary use case is server virtualization and it brings stability to our workloads.

The most valuable features are stability and support. The stability of this product is very good, and I have not seen an issue for many years. It is very stable for all of the features that are available today.

I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization.

Another thing that I would like to see are improvements with respect to performance.

I have been using VMware vSphere for at least seven or eight years.

The stability is very good and should be a top priority for choosing this product.

This is definitely a scalable product and it is used in a virtualized environment.

The support is very good and we have had no issues with them.

Compared to other products, vSphere is number one in terms of flexibility and scalability.

Pricing is a little bit on the higher side, compared to other products.

Basically, this is a good solution and most of the features are already there. I can recommend it to others. That said, I would like to see better performance.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We have a lot of different machines running on this solution.

It has reduced our costs.

• Its consolidation.
• Its simplicity of usage.
• It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution.

I would like to start to using NSX in the next release.

It is very stable.

It is very easy to go up with servers and licensing.

We do not use the technical support because we do not have problems with the solution. Sometimes we may have a small problem, but we start by using the web support and find a solution there.

We started using Hyper-V from Microsoft, then we changed to VMware, because VMware is more stable. It is easier to manage this solution.

The initial setup was easy.

It is easy to understand the licensing of vSphere. We have standard enterprise licensing.

The pricing is more expensive than Microsoft.

I also evaluated the Microsoft solution.

It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable.

• It provides the option to view performance with advanced real-time monitoring.
• With it, it's very easy to create new virtual machines.
• It also helps you upgrade your machines by making hot templates of them.

We have migrated several databases based on the Oracle VM solution to VMWare as we've seen a great difference between these two products.

The setup is complex even for experienced IT administrators who have worked with hypervisors, and it should be made a little easier.

We've used it for one year.

It's a little complex, but we were able to do it. Other than that, we had no issues with deployment.

We had no issues with the stability.

We had no issues scaling it for our needs.

We previously used OVM but chose VMware to consolidate our architecture.

Our initial setup was quite complex because several machines where physical machines, others were OVM virtual machines, and others were VMware machines.

We implemented it through an in-house team.

I would have preferred to implement vSphere straight away instead of OVM and then switching.

vSphere's performance and stability are its more valuable features for us.

It's helped us to include automatization in all processes, thus reducing maintenance hours and increasing energy savings.

The price is too high right now.

I've worked with vSphere for 6years now.

I'm a vExpert so I don't have any issues with deploying it.

With v6, there were some stability problems, but after an update to a later version it's been stable.

That's one of the great things about vSphere -- its scalability.

Customer service is insufficient.

Technical support is outstanding.

I previously used Hyper-V, but it isn't stable and is a complex solution.

The initial configuration is very easy, and the deployment of centralized management is an assisted process.

We implemented it in-house.

You only pay for what you need, so there are a lot of features that we will not use.

If you want to sleep well, get vSphere.

I like vCenter Server since you can monitor and control your whole environment from there. Also, the Web Client is nice to have, but I have heard from my colleagues that there are a lot of issues with it and it doesn’t work as good as it should do to make the C# client invane.

I think in our own way, it has it made the administration a lot easier, reduced maintenance time and made us more flexible in terms of large and quick deployments.

From what I have encountered, the Web Client should be improved so it loads faster locally, and certainly over a VPN connection, as I have experienced a very slow loading when using it over VPN.

The company has been using it for over three years, starting with v5.5, but I've only used v6.0.

Very good, I have opened a few calls with VMware already and I am very satisfied. I like the flexibility to open calls from the portal.

No previous solution was in place prior to v5.5.

We implemented everything through our in-house administrator team, but I wasn't involved.