VMware ESXi

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.

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 use VMware ESXi on various HPE hosts for our server and client virtualization in combination with GPU cards. ESXi is a powerful piece of software that is capable of hosting a large amount of VM's with a very small management footprint. Is is very stable, consumes few resources, and [is] easy, or let's better say, very easy to install. For most of the big vendors, you can find predefined custom images with all necessary drivers etc. for the appropriate HW usage.

We use VMware ESXi in our local data center to run all the on-premise virtual machines with ease. We can deploy or clone machines in a second, manage them perfectly as well as maintain backups and all our hyper-converged infrastructure through the VMware plugin, hence it has become the heart of our data center.

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.