VMware vSphere Reviews

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. 

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.