VMware ESXi is a great hypervisor for those who can afford it
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 31, 2024
CC
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Verified User
9 years of experience
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What is VMware ESXi?
A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.
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VMware ESXi is a great hypervisor for those who can afford it
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 31, 2024We have dozens of virtual servers in the office and use VMware ESXi as a hypervisor to consolidate them in a few physical servers, getting performance and reliability while us...
Carlos Coque
Analyst - Information Technology
System Administrator
IBEX Payroll Services
9 years of experienceVMWare ESXi is not longer the king of the mountain due to poor service and support
Rating: 6 out of 10
August 10, 2023VMware ESXi is used for all of our Production and Test/Development environments in our organization.
David Riberdy
Supervisor - Information Technology
Enterprise Data Management Supervisor
Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company
20 years of experienceSimply the best in business IT asset virtualization.
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 17, 2023ESXI allows us to run multiple and separate headless services on different platforms all on the same hardware, while also allowing for quick spin-up of user stations for tempo...
Brendon Brown
Director - Information Technology
eComerce Director
Island City Media
8 years of experienceVMware continues to work well
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 14, 2023We use VMware ESXi to host all of our VMs. It houses 95% of our on-prem infrastructure. We have a cluster of hosts that do this work with a SAN on the backend.
ESXi helped us out a bunch!
Rating: 9 out of 10
June 13, 2023We use ESXi within all of our Production, Development, & Testing environments to manage and run critical workloads that the company leverages for revenue generating applic...
Richard Potts
Administrator - Information Technology
Network & Systems Administrator
College Foundation, Inc.
10 years of experience
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What is VMware ESXi?
A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.
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What is VMware ESXi?
A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.
ESXi is used to:
ESXi is used to:
- Consolidate hardware for higher capacity utilization.
- Increase performance for a competitive edge.
- Streamline IT administration through centralized management.
- Reduce CapEx and OpEx.
- Minimize hardware resources needed to run the hypervisor, boosting efficiency.
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VMware ESXi Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.
Reviewers rate Live virtual machine migration highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of VMware ESXi are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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VMWare ESXi is not longer the king of the mountain due to poor service and support
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VMware continues to work well
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ESXi helped us out a bunch!
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