SolusVM vs. VMware vCenter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolusVM
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
SolusVM from Plesk, a Swiss company, allows the user to Manage OpenVZ, Xen and KVM virtual machines from one central point.
$3
per month
VMware vCenter
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds. VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.
$6,044
per year
Pricing
SolusVMVMware vCenter
Editions & Modules
Slave Only
$3.00
per month
Enterprise
$10.00
per month
Basic
6,044
per year
Production
6,244
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolusVMVMware vCenter
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
SolusVMVMware vCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.6
(50 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolusVMVMware vCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
Plesk International GmbH
SolusVM is best-suited to automate VPS services where your users can easily order, customize, manage and upgrade their virtual servers easily. It is less appropriate for managing a single server that does not need to virtualize a cluster of virtual servers.
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VMware by Broadcom
The VMware vCenter server is very useful in maintaining the CPU/RAM/datastore resources are balanced when there are multiple ESX/ESXi host servers. It is clear what resources are being used, and it is easy to migrate VMs to different ESX/ESXi hosts. Being able to remotely connect to the VM servers in vCenter when you cannot have other remote connections helps in maintenance and troubleshooting.
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Pros
Plesk International GmbH
  • Easily manage VPS with OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen virtualization technologies
  • Flexible licensing starting from USD 2.5 per month
  • Guarantees highly available, reliable, secure and scalable virtual private servers
  • Automates your VPS hosting service on a breeze
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VMware by Broadcom
  • VSAN storage management and redundancy - high performance IO with built in fault tolerance across the cluster, not reliant on a single hardware item
  • VM fault tolerance. The ability to relocate a running VM and restart VMs from failed or isolated nodes
  • Resource management and alerting. Tracking load across physical systems and allowing us to rebalance for better utilisation
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Cons
Plesk International GmbH
  • Less collection of OS templates
  • It is a bit expensive compared to similar software Virtualizer
  • Plesk has shifted their main focus from SolusVM to SolusIO
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Currently, the HTML 5-based vSphere Client lets you manage the essential functions of vSphere from any browser, however, it would be nice if they would port all management functions over to the HTML 5-based Client.
  • Performing updates and upgrades to the infrastructure is a bit challenging for someone that may not be as intimate with vSphere. I think the updates/upgrades should be more integrated into the UI and provide the ability to push to the hosts, etc...
  • It would also be nice to have a more robust snapshot management tool to prevent snapshot overgrowth. It would be nice to be able to set a lifespan for the snapshot(s)
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Likelihood to Renew
Plesk International GmbH
No answers on this topic
VMware by Broadcom
We are very dependent on this software, it has become a much needed tool to perform the daily tasks that are required to maintain the virtual server environment. VMware has become very pricey over the years, so we are looking for alternatives for cost savings strategy, but nothing has been found to be on par to what we are currently using
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Usability
Plesk International GmbH
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VMware by Broadcom
VMware vCenter Server does a great job with maintaining your virtual environment. It has great role based features to delegate various administrative tasks to multiple users. It is an excellent 'all in one' dashboard for viewing all aspects of your vSphere infrastructure. All alerts to software and hardware issues are easy to trace from this interface
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Support Rating
Plesk International GmbH
No answers on this topic
VMware by Broadcom
VMware support has always been fantastic and they have been invaluable in solving tougher issues that have been run into. Most of the time, any oddities encountered are fixed by available updates. This can be deduced by support quickly with logs within vCenter. We have not run into something yet that support was unable to help with. They either have a solution already, or they are able to find one quickly.
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Implementation Rating
Plesk International GmbH
No answers on this topic
VMware by Broadcom
Since moving away from the Windows Server hosting the vCenter application and instead using a virtual appliance, it has become much easier to implement and deploy the new versions. We can easily create a snapshot or clone of the vCenter vApp to ensure any problems encountered during the upgrade can be mitigated with a fall back to the old version to prevent unscheduled downtime.
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Alternatives Considered
Plesk International GmbH
SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.
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VMware by Broadcom
Citrix Xen Server.... Great Hypervisor but very limited in terms of functionality
MS Hyper-V... [VMware vCenter Server] is better for almost everything and appliance form makes a clear winner for security and ease of deployment
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Return on Investment
Plesk International GmbH
  • SolusVM has helped us to easily automate our VPS management service
  • It has decreased our server maintenance cost by many folds
  • It has helped us to provide more reliable and scalable VPS services to our customers
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VMware by Broadcom
  • The positive impact of vcenter is definitely felt in larger organisations in terms of being able to manage multiple servers all in one environment
  • It will decrease the amount of time your server engineers will have to spend in the server room or datacenter.
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