VMware vSphere Reviews

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

1) Easier way of segmenting the resources. 2) Host profiles - Template to build hosts in minutes. 3) Performance and Graphs - Easy to monitor the hosts 4) Vmotion - In essence, this technique helps you to move a live server between hosts without any downtime. 5) Robust Management Tools 6) Cost saving 7) Advanced memory management - The memory unused in the hosts can be reclaimed and used effectively. 8) High availability

The major disadvantage that i can think off is that we have to pay for all the features to be available. Virtualization has made datacentre operations easier. As a sysadmin, managing multiple hosts is more simpler and flexible with the vmware ESXi. Running multiple hosts, operating systems on a single host makes it more efficient and saves costs. ESXi also allows you to pool the resources of several machines effectively, thereby helping to run the application smoothly without hassles.

This gives the technology lovers an opportunity to do all the things they want or need to do at the same time.

- Free - Easy to install and configure - Very low overhead - Great management features - Enterprise Ready

- Free version limits server memory to 32GB - No central management of other ESXi servers, each one needs to be logged-in individually if you have multiple servers.My experience with VMware EXSi is that it's the fastest Virtualization platform out there. This is basically because of the very good architectural design of the underlying hypervisor, which consumes a very small amount of resource overhead and provides a rich set of features that are enterprise grade. The free version really has a great feature set plus a management software that you can use to manage individual server instances.

The downside to the free version is that you can only use it on a server with a maximum of 32GB memory. Also, you cannot manage multiple ESXi instances with the management client. You have to log-in individually to each server running the free version of EXSi. These limitations are surely a setback considering other competing products do not have these limitations and even offer features which are only available in paid versions of VMware.

We are using the latest version.

We use it for virtual machines. It is a platform which can be used to provide infrastructure for virtualization.

The solution could be more stable.

We have been using VMware vSphere for more than five years.

While the solution is stable, it would be nice if it were more so. 

The solution is scalable. 

We have plans to increase our usage. 

I have not had occasion to contact technical support. 

We used a virtual machine prior to the solution. 

As the the solution is cloud-based, it is easy to install. 

The installation took, perhaps, four days. 

Installation can be done on one's own. 

The solution comes with a yearly subscription license. 

The solution is cloud-based. 

There are around four people using the solution in our organization.

I rate VMware vSphere as a seven out of ten. 

The two features we've found most valuable are vSphere's reliability and stability.

Primarily, we've been able to save on energy costs. It also gives us easier migrations when upgrading infrastructure.

We had some stability issues, though they were due to bad hardware and not software.

I've used it for four years.

We've encountered no issues with deployment.

The problems with stability were due to hardware problems, never software.

We haven't had any issues with scalability.

Customer Service:

8/10

Technical Support:

9/10

We started with VMware, so we never used a different virtualization solution.

The initial setup was nothing but easy. The system was running in just a few minutes.

We implemented it in-house.

We advise in general that the Essentials Plus pack is the best option for the majority of our customers.

No other options were looked at.

Nothing to be afraid of. Everything about vSphere is advantageous.

Greatly consolidated my server infrastructure; DR/BCP friendly

Hard to justify annual maintenance vs. HyperV