Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
VMware ESXi is better than its predessor, ESX 3 & 4.
What is most valuable?
Its high availability, hot memory and CPU enabled features. Not forgetting the Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, Storage vMotion and Dynamic Power Management (DPM).
How has it helped my organization?
We are beginning to experience less downtimes and if there is going to be any downtime, it is extremely minimised. Continously consolidating servers and utilising resources to save power and water.
What needs improvement?
We have noticed the great need for more power and memory requirements especially when the vmware servers (guests) start to request for more processing and memory.
For how long have I used the solution?
Since 2011.
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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Our deployment of VMware went smoothly.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The Vmware environment was available and stable when we first deployed it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We had plenty of room to increase our environment so there is no problem with it.
How are customer service and support?
Customer Service: We did it ourselves and did not include VMware.Technical Support: No support from VMware.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No, we went straight to VMware.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straight-forward.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented this solution with the support from IBM, and their support was pretty good.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
No, we never evaluated any other options.
What other advice do I have?
Since I don't have experience with other solutions, except Vmware, I like it and recommend others who are looking for such a solution to consider talking to VMware.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Infrastructure Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Pros are that it is easy to use but it is hard to have certified resources for it
Valuable Features:
HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion
Use of Solution:
2 years
Initial Setup:
Every thing was straight forward and can easily/readily be found on Internet
Implementation Team:
In-house small deployment
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IT Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Best virtualization product available
I have worked with VMware products for just over 5 years at this point, and during that time frame have compared with competing virtualization products. I believe that VMware Esxi is the BEST hypervisor available. If you have a virtualization project then this is the route to go, although I will concede that MS Hyper-V may be appropriate for some small businesses with just a couple of servers to virtualize.
Deploying Esxi is very simple, install the package on the host, open the vSphere client, and you are ready to go. The setup can be very simple if you are using local storage, or in-depth if using network storage and wanting to customize the virtual network configuration. regardless, the tasks are simple and easy to understand. If you run into an issue, VMware documentation is very helpful and their support team glad to assist.
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The user friendly nature of server virtualization software makes it easy to install, configure and use it.
IT Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Excellent product as compared to other Hypervisors
Pros:
a reliable hyper-visor with a thin architecture, requires minimal configuration and can be up and running in minutes. Management is simple.
Cons:
None, we have a very good experience in its deployment and usage.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Have you used vpshere software to connect ESX host or is there any other software available too?
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The best product of VMware.
Valuable Features:
Easy to use and manage.
Room for Improvement:
More tutorials to use the tool.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Ease of use, functionality, established product, works very...
Valuable Features:
Disclosure: My company is a VMware reseller.
Ease of use, functionality, established product, works very will with almost any prime time OS, very thought-out application, works with the developer community to improve, has deep pocket organization like EMC to help propel them into the future
Room for Improvement:
Moved away from local/domain end-user authentication to a single-sign on authentication mechanism, introduced a single-point of failure, added additional complexity that came be overcome with proper training
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
it_user4524Founder & Principal Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
I keep up with VMware certifications. The entry point on their certifications, the VCA, does not require an official VMware class as a pre-req before you take the exam. The VCP, however, does require an official VMware class before you can take the exam. They are trying to keep the quality of the certification recipients at a premium.
IT Administrator at a media company with 51-200 employees
Used to be a very good product but now is being replaced by some other of its types.
Valuable Features:
Easy to use and provides centralized management. With that, it is free and provides a very simple and easy web and also remote interface to interact with the product.
Room for Improvement:
The only problem with it is that it is now in the category of obsolete products. Though its still very good, but its support and updates won't be available.
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IT Administrator at a media company with 51-200 employees
Despite its minor issues, it's still the choice of most of the System Admins.
Valuable Features:
It is os-independent having a very thin architecture with which it can offer unparalleled security and reliability. Unlike most other hypervisors in the market, this don't need a general purpose operating system clearing the hazards of processor overhead, Antivirus and other OS processor consumption. Its this feature makes it prominent in the market of hypervisors.
Room for Improvement:
Well, not much drawbacks actually. It serves the purpose it is designed for but still a very few little things that i have notices that can be called its drawbacks can be
1. Fault tolerance limits features available to virtual machines.
2. Automatic fallback of VMs currently not supported. This can be crucial in some environments.
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