VMware vSphere Reviews

There are several valuable features, including virtualization, of course, as well as DRS, High Availability, SRM, and vMotion.

It's really helped us out with our testing and development.

It's not perfect, and could use improvements with better stability and better support.

We attempted to upgrade from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5, but we weren't successful. We contacted technical support and, after a few tries, they closed our case and asked us to perform a fresh vCenter install and to create the inventory from there.

It hasn't been as stable as we expected.

Scaling it is not an issue.

Customer service needs a lot of improvement. They need to improve on keeping customers informed of their ongoing issues. They need more support for resolving issues rather than offering workaround and hitting the same issue again.

5/10 - I have opened tickets on a P1 support issue and it hasn't been resolved and I logged it over a month ago.

The initial setup is simple.

We implemented it in-house.

We didn't evaluate other options.

It's a good product, but you have to be patient with it when an issue arises.

It's allowed us to consolidate our hardware.

• We spend less money on hardware.
• We're able to get better use of data center space because our hardware is consolidated into a smaller footprint.

The VSAN storage could be improved.

I've used it for over 10 years.

No issues encountered.

There are only slight issues.

It's very good.

It's very good.

No previous solution was used.

It was a straightforward initial setup.

Know what your needs are and then license accordingly.

No other options were evaluated.

It's important that you understand the technology before using it.

• vMotion helps with core banking operations and time-to-market
• We define architecture tiering
• Availabity is important
• Lots of compliance requirements, so being able to maintain application and business continuity

It's helped bridge business requirements into infrastructure. Because of the cut down in provisioning time, we’ve proved that VMs are valuable as assets, and helps establish trust between business partners and IT department.

I'd like to see the self-discovery of assets and integration of application profile into different assets. Also, the challenge we have is deploying an asset into a datacenter.

It’s very stable. Lots of fear in the past (“my application not a candidate for virtualization”), but we’ve proved them wrong.

It's very scalable, we have three core data centers and six to seven virtual data centers, and whenever possible, we consider VMs as first choice (can’t disclose numbers).

Some applications don’t perform well, so we engage our TAMs. The VMware engineering team works with TAMs.

Don’t hesitate, and go get it. From an architecture perspective, plan out a typical deployment, but you need to understand the business requirements and challenges, be able to define requirements, and make sure you choose the right-size server farm.

• Ease of use
• UI
• vMotion, migrating VMs from one physical server to another with no downtime

It simplifies the management of VMs of our 30 VMs. It's helped with disaster recovery, and we use EMC for disaster recovery, but it's managed with vCenter.

We moved the disaster recovery location from one state to another, and VMs helped us so that we didn’t have to move physical servers,

I don't use it enough to suggest improvements.

No issues, it's rock solid.

There's no issues with it.

We’ve had no need for tech support yet; my team have so far been able to solve any issues.

Make sure you get training on its use and deployment, because you won’t know what you’re getting into.

• Unified management
• UI

It simplifies the management of VMs of our 30 VMs. It's helped with disaster recovery, and we use EMC for disaster recovery, but it's managed with vCenter.

We moved the disaster recovery location from one state to another, and VMs helped us so that we didn’t have to move physical servers.

The alerting functions, right now based on performance, is not so clear now either by email or on the console.

No issues, it's rock solid.

We add one or two VMs every six months, and the only issue was with Sharepoint 2013 that required dedicated memory.

It's good, no issues with response time or knowledge.

Make sure you get training on use, and deployment because you won’t know what you’re getting into.

It's stable and has the ability to execute the features it promises.

We have managed to reduce the number of our physical servers dramatically.

It now has an easier configuration, so new server deployments don't take much time anymore.

Also, we're getting much less out-of-work-hour calls.

The web client has a lot of problems which hasn't been addressed properly.

The tools that VMware provides with vSphere need improvement, such as vSphere data protection.

I've used vSphere for about eight or nine years, and this particular version for four to five months.

No issues encountered.

Not at all, I'm quite happy with the stability.

This products works quite well with scaling.

It has room for improvement, but the staff are usually very friendly and they know what they are doing.

It has room for improvement, but the staff are usually very friendly and they know what they are doing.

As system admins, difficulty isn't an issue as long it works after the deployment.

It was done in-house.

It's saved electricity costs for us as well as costs on unnecessary equipment procurements.

We did a trial run of Hyper-V. We didn't switch, but Microsoft is very aggressive and tried to leverage the licenses that we had already bought. We also looked at Citrix.

Stick with vSphere as long as they don't screw up the product.

Robust, reliable, ease of use, good value for money and reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Reduced TCO through the elimination of physical servers into virtual servers.

Since 2010

No. Setup and installation takes less than 20 minutes.

No.  

Excellent.

Setup was straightforward.  Even an entry-level IT engineer could follow the instructions on the screen with ease.

In-house team.

Daily usage is for Critical Business Applications to the users. 

Yes, did a comparison between Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare. In the end, VMWare won the battle of evaluation.  

• Scripted installation.
• Host Profiles.
• Web Client.
• Windows Client

Previously we used one server per application, this product has increased our hardware utilization.

For managing many ESXi's at once vCenter is required. when the number of ESXi is smaller, it is not practical to have a vCenter server. This should at least be solved especially for a test/development environment. This may be solved using a Application installed on the end user system like a windows machine where the credentials of the ESXi servers are then pre-configured and a double click is sufficient to open the console. (I am talking of the use case where advanced features of vcenter is not used.)

One Year, qe are not using it in our organization. It is being used in out Lab environment for R&D purposes.

I have not found a way to automatically do console redirection to the COM port after scripted installation.

Very stable system.

Scalable to any level.

In house team using the official guides available.