VMware ESXi Reviews

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.

I currently support and manage multiple VMware ESXi environments for my organization. We have environments for production, QA/Dev, VDI, etc. Using ESXi allows us to provide fault tolerance to our virtual machines, reduce our hardware footprint and in doing so reduce the amount of power and HVAC needs in our data center.

We have been using VMware ESX/ESXi for about 9 years now and have been fully all virtual servers the last 4-5 years and it has worked great from day one. We were using VMware long before many other local businesses and long before other organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region. VMware has simplified backup, recovery and disaster recovery. Long gone are the days of restoring physical servers and bare metal restores. It just works.

We use VMware ESXi as our primary hypervisor to host our web architecture. Before we implemented VMware, we had previously provisioned machines by installing Linux on bare metal. This task used to to take days and limited the amount of machines we could create due to the size of the physical hardware. Before VMware ESXi we our machines contained multiple tasks which from an administration perspective was a nightmare. It wasn't clear how systems where configured or what their tasks where. In order to become more agile as a company, we adopted VMware to virtualize our infrastructure.

Our organization uses VMware ESXi to host all of our virtual guests. We selected the essentials package and it works very nicely for our requirements. When we switched to it, we became 100% virtualized in our environment. Moving completely to ESXi has allowed us to save on energy, and improve our monitoring overall of utilization. We can also handle backups and data protection much easier.

VMware ESXi is used for server virtualization across our whole organization. We are approximately 85 percent virtualized. It allows us to utilize less server space, power, and cooling while allowing us to quickly spin up more servers. We have also included some desktop virtualization in our organization. It allows for much more efficient management of our servers.

Currently we use VMware ESXi on all of our physical servers to reduce operating costs of having to run a physical server for each need. We have 17 physical servers hosting everything from websites and databases to fully running virtual servers for our clients. So far this has been the best investment to our server infrastructure with little to no cons. Our clients love the fact that they know their servers are virtual and constantly being backed up and more.

VMware is used by the entire organization. We have two businesses and each uses VMware for a different need. The other company uses VMware for its VDI functionality for an offshore desktop deployment. I use VMware to support our server infrastructure. Our environment is 96% virtualized across the board. We use it for ease of management, consolidation of resources and for its ease of recovery from hardware failure. It allows us to maintain optimal uptime while also allowing the flexibility of management.

VMWare ESXi is the backbone for my entire company's North/Latin American environment. It addresses central administration issues as well as an overall ease of implementation as well as shared resources. Also, it helps supplement huge costs for physical hardware that would be required for the 4000 + servers we use to perform the company's daily functions.

We used it in conjunction with vcenter to manage our virtual machines. It is partially used by our department. The business problem it addresses is to allow us to create a test environment and maximize hardware infrastructure.

90% of our workloads run on top of a VMware Hypervisor. We currently have over 450 host and 4500 VM's.

VMware ESXi is being used throughout our whole organization, across our entire server environment. When we initially moved to VMware, it addressed the issue of having old, outdated hardware and allowed us to move to a new virtual platform. We were able to consolidate our infrastructure from 20 physical servers to 3 servers through the use of VMware.

We use ESXi 5.5 primarily for server virtualization. We also host a XenApp 7.8 farm in our production cluster. We have a production datacenter cluster, a cluster for our Dev/DR site and a single host site at a remote facility used to host a domain controller, ras server and print server. It addresses th problem of server sprawl and consolidates about 120 virtual machines (at our production datacenter) into a single Lenovo Flex chassis, saving at least 3 42U racks of floorspace and the power and environmentals to support them.

ESXi is our hypervisor platform of choice. We use it to maximize hardware utilization, add high availability to our systems, and make management and deployment of systems faster and easier. Through the use of vCenter, we manage many ESXi hosts, which each run many systems. This has allowed us to consolidate our hardware footprint while maintaining a high number of systems.

We virtualized 95% of our servers on VMware ESXi and were also using it to offer virtual desktops to nearly everyone in the company.

We utilize VMware across our entire organization including our production data center locations as well as our corporate office locations. VMware ESXi has changed our business practices positively in every way. It has allowed us to break the strings attached between the hardware layer and OSE layer and has allowed us significant flexibility in regards to update time of our products and services.

I do IT support for around 40 companies. We exclusively use VMWare as the OS on all new servers. We not longer implement any non-virtualized servers. We currently run a mix of ESXi 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5 and will soon start deploying version 6.0. VMWare allows us to better utilize hardware assets while keeping costs to a minimum.

We use ESXi across the whole organization; 100% of our servers are virtualized on it.

Our test/lab environment currently runs on a VMware backend to maximize physical hardware. We currently have 8 VMs running on a ESXi system.

We use VMware ESXi across the whole organization to host servers that service every department in the organization. Virtualization with VMware ESXi has allowed us to reduce the total number of physical machines in our datacenter, thereby reducing the overall cost of maintaining those servers. Having a single point of management, from my desk, of all servers in our organization is a huge help.