VMware ESXi

We use ESXi within all of our Production, Development, & Testing environments to manage and run critical workloads that the company leverages for revenue generating applications as well as day to day IT infrastructure systems. ESXi is our management center for all of these systems and allows us to modify our virtual environment as needed.

We virtualized all servers except for our DB servers. Virtualizing 25 servers saves us on hardware, heating, cooling costs. And allows us to have them be redundant without the extra expense of doubling the hardware and the complexity with that. Virtualizing allows us to add more capacity quickly without increasing our footprint.

We use VMWare ESXi as the virtualization platform for our entire production environment. It allows us to design and rapidly deploy environments that are flexible, redundant, and efficient. We have used VMware ESXi for two years and are quite happy with the product. It is essential to everything that we do.

We use VMWare ESXi as the virtualization platform for our entire production environment across the University. This includes all on-premises production, test, and development servers, as well as our remote application delivery and VDI environments. It allows us to design and rapidly deploy environments that are flexible, redundant, and efficient. We have used VMware ESXi for over ten years and are quite happy with the product. It is essential to everything that we do.

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.

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.

VMware ESXi is used to host our server farms, it provides us with high availability and optimizes the use of our hardware, allowing us to better use the available hardware. The high availability part comes into play when hardware failures occur or maintenance is required. Allowing the virtual servers to be moved easily to different hosts.

We utilize ESXi to help get more bang for our buck for our compute workloads. We run primarily Windows and Linux workloads. We use ESXi across our whole organization. ESXi allows us to perform maintenance without downtime. We can also automate provisioning and maintenance with tools to allow for more efficient use of our time.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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