VMware vSphere Reviews

vMotion, Storage vMotion, Distributed Resources Schedule (DRS), NIOC, SIOC, Storage Profiles.

Our business has been able to consolidate fleets of physical servers to virtual servers, and is able to respond to changing business needs quickly.

Needs improvements to the Fault Tolerance feature, focus more on the performance and quality of the hypervisor. I'd like for them to add more vCPU capability.

5 years

I haven't seen any issues with deployment.

Lately I have seen some bugs coming up.

I haven't seen any issues with scalability.

Customer Service:

Good, but could be better. Lately I have seen VMware dropping the ball on customer service.

Technical Support:

3 out of 5

Yes. Hypervisor setup and setup of High Availability clustering in a jiffy.

In-house

There is no setup cost. Its only the administration cost.

Yes. Hyper-V, Xen.

From my personal experiences I've found that it’s still the leading hypervisor on the market.

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.

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.

The clustering and High Availability features are very useful and valuable.

After implementing VMware alongside some HP solutions, the total ownership cost was reduced significantly, and operational time was also reduced, which resulted in increased productivity and efficiency.

Management features for multi-vendor products for complex environment need work.

I have six years of core experience in design and configuring VMware solutions.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

9/10.

Technical Support:

9/10.

We started virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V v2, but VMware products are more stable and scalable.

It's straightforward.

The first implementation was done by a vendor team, and after that we completed three upgrade project cycles in house.

The cost of licensing is bit on the high side.

We also looked at Microsoft Hyper-V v2.

VMware is good for virtualization.

The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license. 

For example, we would like to use DRS but there is an additional license for that. If it were free then it would be very helpful. 

I have been working with VMware vSphere for three years.

This product is very stable. It gives you good visibility of your hardware and the loads on it.

Up to now, I haven't had a problem that caused me to contact the technical support team.

I have experience with using Proxmox on a single host for about two months, with Hyper-V. This setup is only in a lab and not for production.

For my initial setup, I am not using the entire functionality. We are using vMotion, storage, and clustering.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On-premises

• Storage vMotion helps a lot when migrating from one storage vendor to another
• Storage vMotion migrates a virtual machine and its disk files from one data store to another while the virtual machine is running, with no down time.
• We can move virtual machines off of arrays for maintenance or upgrade
• We have the flexibility to optimize disks for performance or to transform disk types

We migrated our storage from IBM DS4700 & V7000 to VNX 5400 smoothly through storage vMotion.

I would like to see data recovery responsible for the virtual machine snapshot. It is not reliable as the parent snapshot gets corrupted and the whole corresponding snapshots collapse.

We have been using this solution since 2009.

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

The initial setup is straightforward. The only complexity appears with inherited network security policies.

Pricing is a little bit high, but you have to value stability, scalability and the support level which are the most valuable parts of any solution.

Choose VMware to gain the proper stability, scalability, and flexibility with premium support.

We're able to centrally manage our infrastructure.

Its ability to tie into Veeam is really slick – that makes using Veeam really easy.

I'd like to see a different client. I know they are doing the HTML5 stuff with the web client, which has potential, but it could be better.

I think it’s great – we've never had any issues and we've been using it for a long time, about five years.

I think it's really good, it's good for our size and for our future growth. Our company has around 12,000 users.

I haven’t had a lot of interaction because I haven’t really needed to, but when I have they’ve been responsive and support has been good.

No. Our parent company has Hyper-V and it’s no good.

It’s pretty straightforward, not complex at all.

I would highlight compatibility with hosts, ease of use, consistency, reliability – all things that are better than Hyper-V.

Peer reviews are significant, but you can tell the most from firsthand experience.

Fast Manageable Secure Low overhead

Little expensive Needs a lot of dependencies No web interface without vCenter