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VMware vSphere

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334 Reviews and Ratings

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What is VMware vSphere?

An enterprise workload platform, vSphere is used to improve the performance for a data center. It is used to boost operational efficiency, supercharge workload performance, and accelerate innovation.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features VMware vSphere has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 334 ratings of VMware vSphere's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Live virtual machine migration

    Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters

    Category average: 7.7

  • Hypervisor-level security

    Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware

    Category average: 8.2

  • Virtual machine automated provisioning

    Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Management console

    Management console for central administration of vm environment

    Category average: 7.9

  • Live virtual machine backup

    Ability to backup vms without interrupting service

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about VMware vSphere.
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VMware vSphere the trusted one

Incentivized
Virender Kundu
CM(MS&IT) in Information Technology at ACD-HAL (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using VMware vSphere for virtualization purposes as we are having limited hardware servers as putting more servers requires extra space and extra power requirements which are very difficult to get in modern era and every organization is looking to save in these two parameters so to solve these issues we opted for VMware vSphere licenses along with vcenter for management of deployed virtual machines in these VMware vSphere.

Pros

  • Virtualization
  • Operating system compatibility
  • Backup options
  • VM security

Cons

  • Auto provisioning features
  • Alerts for space or memory usage
  • Extra price of any add on features
  • Updates are time consuming
  • Gen AI features need to added

Return on Investment

  • Saved lot of energy bills
  • Saved lot of space requirements
  • Less staff is required for monitoring and management of VMs
  • VM migration is very easy so time savings

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix AHV

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, IFS Applications, HPE 3PAR StoreServ

VMWare vSphere.

Incentivized
Jorge Ortega
IT in Information Technology at Lea County Electric (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSphere in the organization to run all our essential and nonessential virtual machines needed to keep the doors open. vSphere keeps all of our Virtual machines organized and all in one window. It allows us to easily connect and manage all of our virtual machines in one single place.

Pros

  • VM Snapshots.
  • Migrating VMs to other hosts.
  • Monitoring.

Cons

  • It is always running into problems when updating.
  • Extra pricing for extra features.
  • More plug-ins are needed.

Return on Investment

  • Saved us time on patching.
  • Migration management.
  • Saved us time when we replaced servers.

Other Software Used

Cisco Secure Access by Duo, Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services, Dell VxRail

vSphere is the Gold Standard

Incentivized
M. Randy Harris, Jr.View profile
31Red.com at 31 Red (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization deploys vSphere in a variety of industries. However, vSphere essentially addresses the same issue within each business. It allows for maximizing computing resources by providing a top tier user computing experience in the most cost effective manner. Rather than continually allocating dollars for hardware refreshes, vSphere provides a central platform that provides the most latest in computing power and efficiency, while being seamless to the end user.This is consistent across all industries and use cases, be it educational, manufacturing, information services, etc.

Pros

  • Reduce Hardware Cost
  • Increase Computing Capacity and Efficiency
  • Reduce Downtime

Cons

  • Complexity
  • Initial Installation Cost
  • Licensing

Return on Investment

  • Reduced Hardware Cost
  • Reduced Software Cost
  • Reduced Maintenance and Support Cost
  • Improved End User Experience

Other Software Used

Microsoft Windows, macOS

vSphere review

Incentivized
Daniel Moraes Silva,LPIC2,MBAView profile
Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at DHL (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSphere in our organization as the virtualization solution as such: standalone, cluster, and cloud infrastructure servers running using vSphere solution. The Vsphere solution solved all our problems related to scalability and reliability. The vMotion feature in my opinion is the 'best one' where you can easily move your VM between ESXi without restarting the server.

Pros

  • Cloud
  • Standalone
  • Clustering

Cons

  • Disk mapping for VCS solution.
  • Oracle RAC structure.
  • VM backups.

Return on Investment

  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • Return of investment.

Usability

vSphere the easy way to manage ESXi hosts

Incentivized
Heeran Rathod, BScView profile
3rd Line Business Systems Engineer in Information Technology at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSphere to collectively manage our ESXi servers, virtual desktops, and resources tied to our virtual desktop infrastructure. vSphere allows our organization to manage these resources fully without the need to use other applications as well. We have complete oversight of our virtual desktop infrastructure which in turn has allowed us to deliver a solution that benefits the organization and users.

Pros

  • Managing machines.
  • Snapshots
  • Cloning

Cons

  • Storage
  • Missing desktops.
  • Quicker provisioning.

Return on Investment

  • Increased business performance.
  • Scalablility
  • Hardware costs.

Usability