VMware vSphere Reviews

The management piece of it, being able to see what all my servers are doing from one central place.

Higher return on investment, reduced cost of hardware, and central management which is key. The most important part is that it's nimble – I can deploy a server in minutes.

The product is perfect the way it is for us, for our needs.

Very stable – extremely so.

Easy to scale – able to scale out as we need.

Depending on what technical level you are on, they are responsive and very knowledgeable. Any time I have to use them a solution is forthcoming within 24 hours.

Somewhere in the middle – you have to know what you’re doing and have some knowledge. One thing with these products, is that the more you use them the easier it is.

We looked at Microsoft, and we looked at the viability of the product, technical support, and ease of use. VMware was chosen because of its ease of use, and the product itself.

• High Availability
• Fault Tolerance
• Live migration
• Reduced the overall cost of the infrastructure
• Centralizing the management.

We were able to centralize the server farm, thus able to focus administrators on their immediate tasks, reduce response time to incidents, concentrate the informational flows, facilitate the task of data protection.

2 years.

The deployment was really easy, migration to the virtualization infrastructure was transparent to the main business.

None encountered for now.

No. If you would plan an infrastructure from the beginning, you would not encounter any issues.

We have never asked for any kind of customer service.

We have never needed any kind of technical support from the vendor.

No, but, in future, we plan to use a Microsoft Hyper-V.

Initial setup was quite straightforward.

The implementation was made by our own team.

Before choosing we didn't evaluate any other options. It was planned to use the VMware as the first queue and the MS Hyper-V as the second one. The reason is in the migration plan of the servers - in the second phase it would be the MS SQL server's, so the MS Hyper-V is more suitable.

Always have a plan for the work document everything.

We use this product as a solution for backups and security.

The functionalities and management of the product demonstrations need improvement.

It is a stable solution.

It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily.

The tech support is good. 

The setup was easy to install and deploy. It took one or two days for deployment.

The pricing is expensive but we really do not have a choice.

I advise anyone looking to use this solution to take the VMware webinars to familiarize themselves with the product. 

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.

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.

The vMotion feature.

Service up time has increased significantly. Having servers that are not hardware dependent has changed the way we offer solutions.

The vSphere Web Client could be better. The requirement for flash is what really kills it for me. Mobile access from iPads would be great too.

I've used it for three to six months.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I would rate customer service 5/10.

I would rate technical support 9/10.

No solution was used previously.

The initial setup was straightforward and easy to use. Installing ESXi is no different than any other Operating System and the vCSA deployment is just as simple as clicking next a few times.

We did it in-house.

We haven't calculated an ROI.

Every dollar spent on vSphere will repay itself in up time.

No other options were evaluated.

Stop looking at others solutions and implement vSphere 6. It is hands down the most robust, scalable and easy to use virtual infrastructure out there today.

• vMotion
• Encapsulation
• Higher usage ratio of hardware
• Storage virtualization

As a consultant and service company, we can manage our own infrastructure with minimal effort, deploy new applications very quickly, and do tests very easily.

In general, the management features need to be improved. vCenter has just gotten really big and overly complicated.

I've used it for over 10 years.

We've encountered no issues with deployment.

We haven't had issues with instability.

We hardly ever have issues with scalability.

We've found customer service to be average.

Technical support used to be better. The response times are OK, but the solution has too many needs too often.

We've been using VMware since the beginning.

I don't have any issues with initial setup.

I do implementations myself.

Carefully think about what features you need now and in the future, because licensing costs depend on that.

Do a PoC and compare it to other solutions.

• vMotion
• DRS
• High Availability
• Snapshots

We're now able to provision new servers faster and have the option to perform snapshots prior to implementing changes.

The installation of vCenter SSO for a lot of my customers could be improved, but I think it's a totally useless feature.

I've used it since version 4.0, so around six years.

Sometimes there were issues during the installation, especially with certificates.

Only once in five years have we had stability issues.

Customer service is not so bad.

Technical support is also not so bad, but it could be better if it could be localized with non-English languages. Both I and my customers sometimes have difficulty understanding them.

I started with vSphere, so I haven't used any previous solutions.

In the previous version (5.1/5.0) the initial setup was terrible, now it’s much better.

I can do the implementation myself.

I think it’s quite expensive.

I think it’s quite expensive.

My customers also looked at Hyper-V and XenServer.

Make sure you have a lab for testing.

• 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.