VMware vSphere Reviews and Ratings

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware vSphere is best suited for environments that run a huge number of virtual machines that need to monitored centrally which is possible with the help of Vcenter. It is best suited for VDI, Server virtualization and workstation virtualization would be less suitable for environments with a small number of virtual machines those can be monitored manually.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vsphere in our organization as our virtualization and infrastructure platform to provide application and infrastructure services to the business. it is an efficient and extremally flexible platform to grow and assign resources as needed to necessary areas. It works very well to provide backup resources to our backup software. and is very adaptable to disaster recovery tools we have.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need single hosts with limited requirements the free version of esx is great to help those customers. for small, medium, and large businesses vsphere has all the functions and capabilities to run your business. i can say though it does cost extra versus hyper-v as you need vmware licensing to cluster this all together. but vmware does have a number of license options available to meet the needs of pretty much any customer requirement.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSphere is well suited for environments that run a big amount of virtual machines that need to keep them all in one place. vSphere allows you to monitor a big amount of Virtual machines. It would be less suitable for environments with a small number of virtual machines that could be monitored individually.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSphere is THE premiere virtualization platform. It's platform, support, and feature richness surpasses any other competing platforms and is the Gold standard for virtualization. Their research and development department continually innovates and introduces new features as the industry evolves.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the vSphere to manage the virtualization infrastructure, we have more than 1000 virtual servers in every environment like production, development, and test. vSphere provides a centralized management platform to manage all virtual machines.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using the vSphere to manage the virtualization infrastructure, its provide the centralization platform to manage all virtual machines. Easily we can add and remove the VMs and scale up and done the VMs resources. Its well suite for all type of organization.

We can create the multiple VMs on single physical server and can deploy different application database.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSphere in our organization for our virtualized workloads. vSphereprovides a solution for growing organizations that have way too much of a physical presence. Without vSphere, datacenters would be filled with single-purpose, standalone servers. 99% of our environment currently runs on vSphere. I have used it in my previous jobs and still do in my current one.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSphere's suite of products can get expensive but are generally best in segment. They have a strong team and generally know what they are doing. For most small businesses, I feel there are more affordable options out there that can generally do most things well enough if vSphere is out of your price range.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Where I work we are a VMware virtual shop, meaning most all of our systems are virtualized. Server virtualization comes with plenty of benefits for a business and it really can improve efficiency when it comes to properly administering server resources like CPU, memory, and storage. Growing your environment by increasing resources on your servers is just a few clicks away using vSphere versus the traditional ordering hardware, scheduling downtime of your hardware servers, and installing resources such as physical memory, CPU power, and storage disks. It is definitely a huge time saver allowing you to focus your time and efforts on other important issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSPhere is great for large or small organizations. It is easy to scale and add additional ESXi hosts. You can quickly create virtual machines for all types of environments including test, dev, and prod. If you are a small shop, you simply need to have a couple of ESXi hosts to be able to spin up dozens of virtual machines to manage your different apps. If you are a large environment, you can easily create clusters with multiple ESXi hosts in each and easily manage your apps or test, dev, and prod environments in a very organized way. Perhaps less appropriate in scenarios where Microsoft Hyper-V is preferred.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

We can list some scenarios where vSphere solutions work very well as such: WMS solutions, Tomcat portals, Transportation solutions, cloud computing deploys, LDAP/Tacacs authentication solutions, and radius solutions. A scenario where vSphere needs some improvement - OracleRAC solution, where this one does not work as desired in our point of view.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using VMware vSphere to manage the enterprise virtual infrastructure which consists of ~300+ servers. We use it for visibility and for managing the host.

Likelihood to Recommend

The primary reason why we're leveraging vSphere is to consolidate our workloads and realize the other benefits that virtualization provides. For example, create HA or VM-level HA to facilitate DR. Essentially, we use vSphere for all of the reasons that people use a virtualization layer. Apart from having HA/DR capabilities - been able to vMotion servers (in real-time) to multiple other hosts (including different clusters/sites) which would act as easy management for backup and security.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Vsphere for the following purposes:

<ul><li>Centralized management platform for Virtual Machines for multiple departments.</li><li>Manages Esxi hosts and vCenter server.</li><li>Hosting multiple servers to use them to create Virtual Machines.</li><li>Segment-wise VM distribution for different team members.</li><li>As a data center backup and disaster recovery.</li><li>Also using it as a private cloud infrastructure.</li></ul>

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited cases :

<ul><li><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;">Small businesses using VMware vSphere essential kits.</span></li><li><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;">Meets demands of high-performance application and memory-intensive databases.</span></li><li><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;">Multiple OS setups allowed</span></li></ul>Less optimal scenarios:

<ul><li>When you need a single VM in vSphere to be extremely resource-intensive.</li><li>Not suited for large businesses.</li><li>No https website inside the VPN for the company.</li></ul>