Enterprise Virtualization Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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2024-11-20T13:41:00Z
Nov 20, 2024
VMware is expensive and rightly so. It is a good and reliable product. It's expensive, however, the stability it offers is optimal. We pay a few hundreds of thousands of dollars mostly for support annually.
The purchasing process became more complicated after the merger with Broadcom. We don’t have the same level of access to Broadcom representatives as we did with VMware. It’s difficult to know who to contact for support or where to submit orders. I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with one being very cheap and ten being very expensive. It's quite expensive because you can get a cloud instance at a lower cost for the same configuration. The price could be lower.
Server Virtualization Software enables businesses to partition a single physical server into multiple virtual servers, optimizing resource utilization and reducing costs.
This technology helps organizations enhance their IT infrastructure efficiency and flexibility by enabling the creation of isolated environments for running different applications, servers, or systems on the same hardware. It aids in improving disaster recovery, streamlining server management, and maximizing hardware usage....
VMware is expensive and rightly so. It is a good and reliable product. It's expensive, however, the stability it offers is optimal. We pay a few hundreds of thousands of dollars mostly for support annually.
The pricing and licensing of VMware vSphere Foundation is quite expensive. I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, where ten is expensive.
The purchasing process became more complicated after the merger with Broadcom. We don’t have the same level of access to Broadcom representatives as we did with VMware. It’s difficult to know who to contact for support or where to submit orders. I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with one being very cheap and ten being very expensive. It's quite expensive because you can get a cloud instance at a lower cost for the same configuration. The price could be lower.