VMware vCenter

VMware vCenter

VMware vCenter

361 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VMware vCenter	Score 8.4 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

VMware vCenter

Editions & Modules

Basic: 6,044
per year
Production: 6,244
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
VMware vCenter
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	VMware vCenter
Considered Both Products	VMware vCenter Verified User Employee Chose VMware vCenter In my experience, Red Hat Virtualization was cumbersome. I think VMware vCenter is definitely a better product. Red Hat discontinued their Virtualization product but still offers other virtualization platforms that I haven't tested. In my opinion, Proxmox isn't as polished but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose VMware vCenter We initially used Citrix XenServer and made the switch to VMware vCenter due to it being less expensive at the time. That was some 15yrs ago and is no longer the case as Broadcom has changed the licensing scheme for their products which greatly increased the costs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware vCenter Not really a competition. Proxmox and Hyper-V both lacks the manageability and easy to use access for multiple nodes and clusters. Also Hyper-V has the ability to use Multiple nodes but it does not compare to the level of VMware vCenter Server. All the integrations possible … Incentivized Helpful? Veli-Matti Mäkelä System Administrator Chose VMware vCenter VMware as a product was most advanced hypervisor when we made the decision for our datacenter. Over the years VMware vCenter has kept it's edge and we have seen no reason to change to any other product as we have gained experience over the years. We do still continue to … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware vCenter I was not involved in the evaluation, but my understanding from colleagues was that the years of experience in VMware vs. Hyper-V were very evident. VMware vCenter was simply a much more mature product. Incentivized Helpful? Manfred B. Zysk Network and Systems Administrator Chose VMware vCenter vCenter is much more complete as a solution than other products that I have looked at and it works very well for our environment. vCenter is very easy to configure and does not have the unnecessary steps to set up and configure. Also, the different storage vendor support … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose VMware vCenter 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 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose VMware vCenter VMware vCenter Server's biggest competitor is Microsoft's Hyper-V Server. We prefer VMware vCenter Server because the hypervisor is much less resource intensive. It also gives us a different environment so that a specific Microsoft bug wouldn't take down all of our VMs if the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware vCenter [VMware vCenter Server] is the true leader in this space. The functionality and ability to offload tasks to other teams makes this a no brainer. The granularity in permission allows [VMware vCenter Server] to be secure and isolate teams to only the objects they are allowed to … Incentivized Helpful? AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Chose VMware vCenter There was not much competition, VMware has been in the market the longest and other systems are still catching up. VMware is proven, trusted, and has a good support base, the other main differentiator is VSAN for storage, reducing the need for physical SAN(s) which can become a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose VMware vCenter VMware runs in the cloud. I do not have the experience with cloud based VMware to comment. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli Support Analyst Level 2 Chose VMware vCenter Hyper-V is not a bad product by any means, and it does have the benefit of not costing money for the software itself since it comes with the OS. That being said, it did start quite far behind VMware in features when it first came to market. Microsoft has been catching up, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware vCenter I have looked briefly at some competing products, but haven't used any of them in depth. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware vCenter vCenter beats the daylights out of Microsoft Hyper-V. Actions that take multiple clicks with Microsoft can be achieved in a single click with vCenter. It’s less expensive and easier to deploy and maintain. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose VMware vCenter VMware vCenter Server is a much more simplified, in my opinion, platform for managing a virtual infrastructure stack. There are a number of features that are available at the Enterprise and Enterprise+ tiers of service that other hypervisor environments do not excel at, or do … Incentivized Helpful? Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst Chose VMware vCenter Citrix XenCenter used an isolated client that directly connects to the hosts instead of using a management agent. This causes a number of issues if the host is not optimally configured. Microsoft Hyper-V has been behind VMware in feature set for many years, but is starting to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose VMware vCenter We considered Microsoft Hyper-V very briefly. At the time we considered Hyper-V you still needed to purchase an extra management product to get features similar to vCenter; and even then, it didn't seem fully baked, yet. The situation may, and probably has changed, with later … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose VMware vCenter We only selected vCenter as there wasn't really any alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Jewemars Christian Riano System Administrator Chose VMware vCenter Based on the Gartner leader board, VMware is a pioneer in terms of virtualization, it is also API based which is easy to integrate on other systems via REST API's, the technology itself is powerful and it's corresponding other added value features that makes administering … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose VMware vCenter VMware is much easier to use, much easier to configure, and does not rely on having another OS layer like windows to run off of. This was they key for us because whenever we had to update windows we would have to migrate everything off just to apply some simple updates. VCenter … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Liebowitz Server and Storage Engineer Chose VMware vCenter Our desktop team uses Citrix XenApp for remote connectivity of our employees. However, this environment runs on our VMware vSphere hosts which are managed by VMware vCenter Server. :) XenApp was never considered to replace VMware vCenter Server or our vSphere hosts. Incentivized Helpful? Victor Arana IT Manager Chose VMware vCenter I've selected VMware vCenter Server among the other Virtual Server solutions because it reduces the amount of time and effort to run and set up maintenance tasks, create hosts and back them up. Replication is so easy when you have a second vCenter Server linked remotely that … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Mulla Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems Chose VMware vCenter VMware vcenter server is way ahead of the competition in terms of features and thought that has gone into the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose VMware vCenter Proxmox VE is also a very powerful tool and is free, but vCenter has really hit the nail on the head as far as simplicity and ease of use, as well as, reliability. Incentivized Helpful? Greg Goss SQL Database and Business Intelligence Manager Chose VMware vCenter When we were selecting a hypervisor a few years ago, VMware was the clear leader at the time. Now the gap has lessened but I still like the feature set and feel of VMware. VMware is also moving in a direction I generally like, so I don't have any reason to replace what we've … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	VMware vCenter
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (55 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	VMware vCenter
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Manfred B. Zysk Network and Systems Administrator Read full review
Pros	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 Incentivized AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Read full review
Cons	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) Incentivized Joe Spradlin IT Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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 Incentivized Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst Read full review
Usability	VMware by Broadcom I work with vCenter for 10+ years and i love it. I can find my way around and can help building and expanding the platform. It is easy to use and there are a lot good communities for the extra support when needed. Even the Homelab community is of great value. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Adam Friedli Support Analyst Level 2 Read full review
Implementation Rating	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. Incentivized Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Muhammad Mulla Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems Read full review
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