VMware vSphere Reviews

• VMware server is a free hosted virtualization server which runs on top of various operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, Windows and Netware • It separates single physical server into various virtual machines which can be deployed many times • The installation of the server no longer requires hardware configuration • It serves as a testing environment for experimental OS, patches and softwares but does not need installation or any configuration • It can automatically starts virtual machine at system boot • It can also take full control of virtual machines from remote computers • It provides a complete GUI VMX editor • It allows virtual machines to use two VSMP processors • VMware server 2.0 has Web Management Interface which is used to easily manage virtual machines

• VMware has lesser functionality than the proprietary VMware ESX • VMware server does not fully control the scheduling of hardware resources because the complete control falls into the underlying operating system • VMware Server Support ended on June 30, 2011

It is one easy to install and manage vitualization technique. Its pretty fast also, compared to some other vitualization techniques. And that is because its has a very small amout of resource overhead. It lacks the server console which decreases its booting time.

We can say its free but it's not. Free versions has limited capabilities and misses some very strong features. So in my opinion its not free. Other then that, it misses the console, which may be good from booting point of view, but from troubleshooting point of view, its bad. As it takes a lot more administrations skills to tackle problem without the proper control panes in the form of the console panel.

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.

Private Cloud

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.

Customer Service:

I would rate customer service 5/10.

Technical Support:

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
• Storage vMotion
• High Availability
• DRS
• Storage DRS
• Enhanced vMotion Capability

Less time is needed to go live for workloads. We have, therefore, been able to increase our efficiency and that of the virtual infrastructure.

The web client is prone to errors and crashes. Dump this in favor of the C# desktop client.

I've used it for two years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

7/10

Technical Support:

5/10

We have been using VMware in our environment since the company's inception.

I joined the company after it was implemented.

As far as I know, it was done in-house.

You should use vSphere for robust performance and stability.

• The deployment of Distributed Virtual Switch
• Hyper visors for 5.1, 5.5, 6.0
• We use these to deploy our product (Cisco switches)

• Very flexible and scalable SDN solution
• We can add hypervisors with VNX and switches for a CSA fabric solution; it's very flexible for that
• We can scale up Nexus switches for ACI (application centric infrastructure)

• Right now, the NIC teaming feature has only four roles, only supporting it for one role (IP route hash), but it should include all roles
• MAC pinning feature should be there in NIC-teaming
• It needs a more friendly UI, as right now it's difficult to see what we’re maintaining

It’s a hyper visor residential product, and the AVS status is shared between hosts immediately through vCenter, making it more stable.

Using vCenter and AVS, we can create easily, and transparently, a VMM (virtual machine manager) domains. In general, we can scale easily.

No direct experience.

It was a very easy initial setup, including the ESXi host.

We must meet a real-switch behavior and functionalities. Go ahead and definitely purchase it.

Cost, for one thing, it greatly reduces from physical servers.

Time, it saves me time. It’s also much easier to manage.

More storage capabilities would be great. Also, more hot-adding of devices would be helpful.

Fairly stable – we have issues, but overall it’s a very stable product that doesn’t require much legwork to run.

Not much experience, so I wouldn’t know.

They’ve been extremely helpful. Basically, we create a ticket and they assign a technician that usually calls us back within an hour. They usually do a great job of diagnosing and fixing the problem.

We were using hardware before, we started that in that development phase and realized the benefits of virtual environments and started migrating over.

It’s fairly straightforward.

I always look at the technical support, product availability, and product stability when selecting a new product. We just looked into vSphere though as there’s nothing else like it.

Nobody’s perfect, but it’s great for our needs, and I would absolutely recommend the product.

• Stability
• Ease of deployment

We have been able to consolidate 70-80 physical servers into much smaller ESXi virtual servers. We’ve reduced our footprint to a much smaller virtual environment.

I can't say as I'm still trying to figure out the product fully.

I have been extremely impressed by the stability of the solution.

It's extremely scalable. The ease of being able to add a new server or host in, and get it compatible with what's going on gives us a lot more functionality to get that host up and running.

Fortunately, I haven’t had to use it much, but I’ve gotten good response, usually we get someone on the phone and they are able to help us with our issues.

No previous solution was used.

I inherited our production environment, but I set up the dev environment and that was up and running in a day. The time from installation to functional environment was about a day.

I think as a company VMware is committed to innovation and stability and from a setting up the environment standpoint, you want consistency, but from what we’ve seen VMWare has that.