VMware vSphere Reviews

VMware vSphere is deployed in our data centers. We provide services to our customers by allowing them to use our infrastructure. We have lots of customers from different sectors, such as financial, educational, and retail.

VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things.

I have been using VMware vSphere for approximately 10 years.

The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market.

VMware vSphere is very scalable.

The technical support is good. They are a trustful company.

We have one initial setup, we are not doing the setup all the time. Since we are a service provider, we have the infrastructure already.

I rate VMware vSphere an eight out of ten.

My primary use case is defense hyper combat fan solutions.

The features I've found most valuable are that the enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need.

One issue with the product is that the sentencing has changed a lot.

I have been using this solution for about a year.

I would rate this product as nine out of ten.

• High Availability
• Storage vMotion
• Strong support loads

• Scalability
• Cost reduction
• Efficient resource utilization

I've used it for two years.

VSAN was not as reliable as I expecting and it crashes when we get to 90% memory.

VMware support escalation tickets are so slow to answer.

It's poor.

We switched because in most cases, support was slow, so we had to find forums and internet articles for solving our issues.

It was straightforward, just following the step by step guide.

We did it in-house.

VMware products are expensive.

• Microsoft
• Citrix

Look at the scalability and pricing, as well as the ease of implementation.

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.

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.

• 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.