VMware ESXi Reviews

As a Cloud Service Provider for us is fundamental to have a reliable tool to provide our services, in this case, ESXi is the most significant tool cause it allows us to handle the very large and complex multi-tenant environment.

Our entire environment is running on ESXi, including a DR site. Having all the servers be virtual allows for flexibility in resource allocation and overall ease of management. This also reduces maintenance downtime, as VMs can be migrated using vMotion without any downtime. Because everything is virtual, DR scenarios are also very easy to perform.

We use VMware ESXi to run on on prem compute workloads. We use VMware across the board on our on prem footprint. VMware helps us keep our servers running dense and enables ease of server deployment, backup, recovery, and migrations. This keeps the business up and running with minimal downtime thanks to all the virtualization features.

VMware ESXi is our enterprise virtualization platform. All of our Tier 1 applications along with our non-prod environments run on ESXi and have been for many years. ESXi & vSphere have provided Vizient with a stable hypervisor platform that allows flexibility and scalability in our growing business.

VMware ESXi is currently being used to maximize the capacity of cloud servers where they can be logically segmented into providing other services instead of just one server per service, I can have several separate virtual servers running on one physical host. The product is very stable and provides an excellent return on investment.

ESXi is being used primarily as a GPU server and as a remote desktop server with the Horizon system. This allows the entire company to have individual desktops wherever they are in the world. It eliminates our data security concerns with traveling employees as all our company data is in the office with the virtual desktops and the user just logs into the desktop/information. The GPU passthrough is used to add extra power for some employees (engineers) with extra demands. ESXi allows for consumer Nvidia cards to be used, saving cost.

We use VMware ESXi at small client sites that have a surplus of legacy hardware and don't have the budget for cloud-based virtual machines, or fully licensed VMware products (vSphere). We generally make use of it to run multiple light-duty VMs on older server hardware to maximize its usefulness before EOL.

VMware ESXi is being used as the primary platform to host our applications servers. We are currently using 3 hosts in a cluster with roughly 25 Microsoft/Linux VMs. VMware allows us to reduce physical hardware and electrical costs, as well as giving us ease of access to our environment.

VMware ESXi is being used to provide a bare-metal VMware hypervisor running on our Dell Servers. The entire organization uses virtual servers running on this platform. It provided a smaller footprint version of ESX that we run on system integrated flash built into the hardware. We originally began using ESXi to allow for disk-less servers that were attached to dedicated iSCSI storage arrays.

VMware ESXi is being utilized to bring virtualization into the current environment. ESXi is the backbone of the virtual infrastructure within the organization. It was brought in originally to assist with some virtual systems for remote users who needed to utilize software that does not behave well through VPN. By bringing in this product we allowed out user base to take advantage of virtual systems that can be accessed from any location that has internet access.

We host probably 95% of our servers on a 9 host VMWare server cluster containing over 200 virtual machines. We also have a colocation and remote office that we run a couple VMWare hosts at with a handful of machines at each location as well. Running our business on VMWare has been incredibly amazing over the years, it allows so much flexibility and scalability as well as cost and data center footprint reduction.

We use ESXi for nearly all servers in our school district, very few things left on physical servers. This makes it easy for me (I am the only one in my department managing servers) to work on everything from one centralized location. I almost never have to be on-site with our hosts, and I can spin up new machines on the fly in a few minutes. This also saves us thousands of dollars in hardware costs, which is incredibly important for public education.

EXSi is the foundation for all of our virtual machines. Virtualization has allowed us to scale down our physical server count considerably, reducing overhead costs. It allows us flexibility in terms of spinning up new virtual machines and how we manage them with vCenter

Our VMware ESXi environment runs almost all our virtual servers. What used to be two 48U racks of servers is now consolidated down to less than half a rack. Server management is simplified and requires less downtime.

We use VMware ESXi across our entire network. It simplifies the backup process and management of our server environment. The cost savings in hardware (space and number of servers) and power consumption is worth the upfront cost.

VMware ESXi provides the core backbone to hosted private cloud applications and services. It hooks into a multi-clustered VSphere and SRM environments.

VMware ESXi is used within our university to virtualize the servers in our data center in order to minimize the physical server footprint. It allows us to maximize our resources by fully utilizing all of the available memory and CPU in each host. VMware ESXi also provides us with redundancy and high-availability features to ensure that all of our servers are available at all times.

It is deployed at various client cities for our managed service provider. It is a good solution for VM hosting. I do like it for cross-platform compatibility. Very stable. We deploy it to clients who do not or cannot use Hyper-V.

It's used to manage guest OS/virtual machines within our organizations Unified Communications infrastructure. ESXi is being used by multiple groups within our organization. ESXi helps reduce our hardware footprint while improving availability of services.

We use VMware ESXi as the platform for virtualization for a marketing agency. In this case, it is used to run multiple, critical servers including a pbx phone system, a high capacity and volume file server with lots of video and image files, a development IIS server, and multiple other virtual machines to test and do other work on. We have found this technology especially useful for this environment, as we operate on mostly a Mac environment for creatives. This allows them to have virtual machines they can access when they need to use software only available on a Windows environment.

It is used across the entire organization and solves providing temporary servers, right-sizing the servers (physical servers are more limited in their RAM and CPU configurations. A single physical server can host dozens of virtual server VMs, all with different operating systems installed. It also abstracts the [hardware] from the server which enables a VM to be exported to a different building or location or even a different company. Virtualizing large servers can reduce cooling, power, ups, cables, physical space and racks, noise, support. Many processes like antivirus, backups, boot ups, upgrades can be more centralized.

ESXi is being used to manage VMs spread across all of our users.

I started to use ESXi as a way to build, control, configure, and push-out virtual machines (servers) throughout my company. I am now able to set out a selection of systems to individuals to use and once done and I have the data and work completed from an employee I can easily keep data and delete that used VM which I can relaunch at anytime from anywhere. I use these VMs so that I don't have to worry about any viruses and malware getting back into my main server. ESXi also works great with VCenter and setting up virtual networks.

vCenter Server in the classroom environment allows students to be more productive in an ESXi host environment. There are currently over one thousand VMs running on ESXi from Windows Desktops 7,8, 10, Windows Server 2008, Server 2012, and a plethora of Linux distributions. Students have the ability to access the vCenter from a web browser or using the VSphere Client software. This has been a huge time safer for students as in the past each student used an external hard drive to host their virtual machines. When multiple machines were turned on it would take a great deal of processing power of the desktop to run the VM's, with ESXi students are capable of keeping the machines up at all times. This also eliminates the problem of corrupting VMs on external hard drives by not having to shut down VM's which would require students to stay after class. Using Nimble technology in the ESXi the school can now have an entire infrastructure built and functioning for each student.