VMware ESXi

We use ESXi extensively across our entire enterprise. We first deployed it as a server consolidation project, but now it's a critical business function tying two data centers together in separate cities for high availability and disaster recovery.

VMware ESXi is being used to host applications and VMs that support the entire university. ESXi is the primary hypervisor in use in our organization, and has been primary for over 10 years now. It allows us to provide computer and storage resources to our users and departments in an extremely efficient way with many functions that facilitate availability and uptime.

VMware ESXi is being used by our organization to host virtual machines, specifically Windows servers. It is just used in our department, however, IT does serve the entire organization. It does exactly what it was designed to do: spread underused physical IT resources across a virtual environment resulting in significant savings.

We use VMware for almost all of our entire server infrastructure. The only servers we don't have virtualized are backup and video servers. It would be difficult to manage the number of physical servers it would take to server the school district at this point. It saves us a lot of time and money by keeping our physical server infrastructure small and easily manageable.

We are using VMware ESXi across the whole organization to manage more than 500 servers (Windows and Linux). Working in the research and technology advancement industry, we'll have to address rapid changes/requests flowing from numerous departments, from environmental to health researches. Out of all the main business problems that VMware ESXi addresses in our organization, is the high tolerance data migration capabilities from one Data Centre to another while granting us to manage all our VMs in a timely fashioned manner.

vSphere ESXi is a hypervisor similar to HyperV or Xen, essentially a platform for running many virtual servers on one hardware server or cluster. Primarily it allows you to build out one hardware server on which you virtualize your application and/or role servers. It provides a layer of abstraction between the hardware itself and the application layer that gives you the ability to allocate and reallocate hardware resources and perform actions like cold reboots without having access to a power button or cable.

VMware ESXi is used to host most servers at my site. It is the company standard for virtualization across my company, at least in North America. It allows us to save costs on hardware and licensing for hosting servers and workstations. We can test development, upgrades, and changes on copies of servers before having to do it on a production/live server. Since we can copy an actual server, we know exactly how it will respond to changes. This helps us save on trouble-shooting, save on server recovery, and so many other things.

We use it to consolidate our servers and infrastructure. It is being used across the company to better use assets. Ultimately, it is used to take anywhere from four or five systems and consolidate them to 1 host, or on the other extreme 60 plus systems combined down to one host.

VMware ESXi is being used by our IT department to deploy servers and services across our entire organization. The software such a game-changer, it's difficult to state how life-changing the software is. On the simple side of things, our IT Department is able to quickly spin up virtual machines at a moments notice. Additionally, ESXi allows us to add additional server resources at a moment's notice, rather than having to go through the cost and process of purchasing new hardware. ESXi allows us to take backup snapshots of servers in the blink of an eye, providing a safety net, unlike anything a physical server can typically do.

ESXi is currently being used as an integral part of our server farm for hosting Windows and Linux server virtual machines. These servers host applications and services across our organization. We also use it for hosting our virtual desktop environment. This has improved our scalability, server provisioning issues, real estate, and heating/cooling challenges. We are also now able to utilize thin client hardware, saving CAPEX.

Our organization makes extensive use of a datacenter and has virtualized hundreds of Windows servers on bare metal hardware. These servers work to process logins, provide access to our student information and registration data, hold and manage email, provide shared drives for file exchanges, websites for access by our schools and parents, etc.

ESXi is utilized to host our entire server infrastructure, as well as our virtual desktop environment. It allows us to perform hardware maintenance and upgrades with zero downtime. We are also able to replicate our infrastructure to our secondary DR location without the need to have identical hardware available and maintain a very low RTO.

At present we are utilizing VMware ESXi across the entire organization. We are utilizing this for our entire Production & Development Windows environment, as well as some Linux implementation. There are also various VM appliances in place via VMware ESXi service various functions within the organization. ESXi allows us a dynamic & "easy" way to manage our infrastructure environment.

We have implemented VMware ESXi at our primary data center and all of our remote office locations. It is being used across our whole organization and provides a quick and easy way to provision servers as needed. VMware ESXi has consolidated our server footprint from racks of physical servers to only a few VMware ESXi hosts that can support hundreds of virtual servers. Servers can now be provisioned in a matter of minutes rather than days.

We leverage VMware ESXi as our main hypervisor, spread across multiple hosts. It is used to support a large amount of VM's that we use for day to day business operations, as well as a separate network for our lab. It is utilized by our entire organization because each department is tied to at least a handful of VM's. Our Engineering team manages the environment, and it solves a lot of problems for us. We consistently perform P2V conversions of other equipment and then place it on our virtual infrastructure for easier management and backups. We continue to use it because of the outstanding reliability that we see within the environment, and the ease of patch management that is becoming more and more necessary as technology becomes more readily available.

VMWare ESXi is being used organization-wide. We use it to create VMS for some users that need to gain access to applications/tools from home that otherwise would not work. We use it to virtualize the majority of our servers to provide fast configuration changes and high availability, as well as minimal hardware to support.

VMware ESXi is the global standard for virtualization within the company. It solves the problem of needing to run thousands of physical servers, allowing us to consolidate and run everything on a few physical hosts distributed across several datacentres around the globe. VMware ESXi provides solutions for monitoring and managing these hosts through a single-pane-of-glass product (vCenter) and advanced diagnostics and metrics (vROPs) for an end to end solution.

We use VMware ESXi across our global organization. It's managed by our System Administrators and leveraged by our DevOps teams to help automate business processes. It gives us flexibility and stability for testing. We have multi-ESXi host clusters for high availability. VMware ESXi has allowed us to virtualize most of our physical server infrastructure which has allowed us to work remotely from our data centers. It removes the need to lifecycle 100's of physical servers in favor of a simple lifecycle of a few VMware ESXi hosts.

Vmware ESXi is being used company-wide at our business. We decided to use it because we had limited space in our server room but need multiple servers for different purposes. So we virtualized the various servers on one piece of server hardware and were able to keep our hardware use low while getting the number of servers we needed.

We have been a VMware ESXi shop for well over a decade. We use it across the whole enterprise to run 99% of our environment. There are exceptions where we do run physical servers and/or appliances outside of our virtual environment. By using ESXi, we have been able to stretch the resource requirements for applications across fewer physical hardware points. We have also been able to leverage features and functions like High-Availability and Replication due to using ESXi. It has also made the administration of our environment much easier and centralized.

We currently use ESXi to run administrative virtual appliances that are not currently supported by our primary hyper-converged hypervisor. This setup includes three virtual appliances, vCenter to manage two host machines located in two physical locations. The second host is a replication target for the primary host to assure business continuity in a disaster recovery event.

My company uses ESXi as the go-to host hypervisor platform of choice when deploying virtual hosts at all of the plants and offices in our network. We use at least one ESXi host at every plant/office and at some sites, we have several.

ESXi's purpose is to act as a host platform for creating, running and managing virtual machines of various types, i.e. servers, user endpoints, appliances, web servers, SQL servers, etc. It's similar to Hyper-V (the Microsoft-branded competition for ESXi) but in my opinion, it has more and better features, overall, although the learning curve for ESXi is both steeper and longer for system admins than most other hypervisors.

Why do we use it? ESXi enables us to host many virtual servers and other endpoints on one physical host machine. This saves on electricity, space, heating, and cooling and improves ease of management of the hosted devices for everything from rebooting them to backing them up to restoring them.

Short answer? For small, medium or large enterprises, ESXi is (still) the best choice for hosting virtual machines. It really doesn't have much legitimate, serious competition in the world of hypervisors.

We have deployed VMWare Vsphere for the production environment of SAP HANA. For SAP HANA, VMWare is the only certified virtualized platform. It addressed our SAP HANA production with HA.

VMware ESXi is the product that hosts the majority of our virtual server environment. There are several environments set up at several different locations. Managing the environments is easy through the use of vCenter. Having the ability to quickly adjust the needed resources of each virtual machine, provides us the ability to address performance problems as they arise. It does not matter if the system needs an increase in memory, CPU, or disk space, the changes or new resources can be added in a matter of minutes.

VMware ESXi is the of our on-premises server virtualization efforts. VMware ESXi is leveraged by the IT department for all services which are not cloud-ready or for services deemed to stay within our own control. VMware ESXi (with vCenter) allows us to be nimble with deadlines and requirements from various areas within our organization, as we leverage a significant amount of automation to streamline requests.