VMware vSphere

Score8 out of 10

334 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

vSphere is a versatile product that has found widespread use across various industries and organizations. Users rely on vSphere to manage virtual servers and physical servers, eliminating the need for downtime. The ability to perform maintenance on virtual servers on the fly without taking them down has been highly appreciated by users. vSphere also allows for easy provisioning of resources to business-critical applications, ensuring smooth operations. The vMotion feature enables users to move workloads between physical hosts and storage seamlessly, offering flexibility in resource allocation. Additionally, users can easily add more disk space to virtual servers without disrupting their functionality. vSphere has been adopted by banks, governments, telcos, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing companies in Bangladesh for various applications such as in-house applications, HRMS, card management systems, internet banking services, network monitoring systems, authentication systems, mail servers, and financial applications. This product helps lower the total physical server count and maximize computing resources while delivering a top-tier user experience in a cost-effective manner. Its features like compute resource utilization and easy resource provisioning contribute to its value in managing virtualized environments efficiently.

One of the key benefits of vSphere is its ability to enable cloud behaviors like data center migrations, high availability, resource management, and monitoring. Organizations have successfully utilized vSphere for server consolidation, reducing hardware expenses and increasing overall productivity. The automatic failover feature has proven to be valuable by reducing downtime through seamless switching over to another server in case of a complete loss. Moreover, vSphere's capabilities extend beyond server management - it is also used for deploying systems quickly via pre-developed templates and recreating customer issues with test infrastructures. By leveraging vSphere's functionalities, organizations have reported significant cost savings on server hardware and data center space. In industries such as education, manufacturing, and information services, businesses have relied on vSphere to address the common challenge of maximizing computing resources while ensuring scalability and reliability. The product's ability to keep virtual machines organized and manageable in one window has been commended by users, providing easy connectivity and streamlined management. Overall, vSphere serves as a reliable and efficient virtualization technology that enables IT departments to provide robust services, consolidate servers, and optimize resource utilization for various applications and workloads.

Reviews

70 Reviews

VMware vSphere the trusted one

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 31, 2024

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

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.

Virender Kundu

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

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Flexible Virtualization Software

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2023

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.

Pros

vmotion and enabling 100% uptime
easy vm backup options
easy snapshot capabilities for software upgrades
allow dissimilar hardware in a cluster to manage vms. cheap option for clients who have cost issues for some implementations

Cons

virtual TPM for windows 11 is only available in enterprise licensing. its way too much money for something that's a microsoft requirement
vcenter continues to get more complex to set up and manage. should be a system that should get easier to manage as it gets more robust. they need to re-think its easibility as it has new releases
need to rethink the use of SD cards for esx hosts. as that is a great cheap and excellent way of building esx hosts for environments

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

VMWare vSphere.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2023

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.

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.

Jorge Ortega

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

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

vSphere is the Gold Standard

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2023

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

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.

M. Randy Harris, Jr.

31Red.com at 31 Red (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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vSphere Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 4, 2022

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.

Pros

High Availability
vMotion
Infrastructure virtualization
Easily we can add and remove the virtual machines

Cons

Integration with Kubernetes
It should have hardware monitoring

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.

Debopriya Bhattacharya

AIX Administrator in Information Technology at Kyndryl Solution Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

A great suite of products

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 4, 2022

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.

Pros

A broad suite of products available to consumers.
An immense community and tons of knowledgebase/documentation.

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

vSphere is great

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 29, 2022

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.

Pros

Fast resource provisioning.
Quick virtual server reboots.
Solid performance monitoring.

Cons

Clearer documentation on upgrade paths.
Simpler compatibility matrix.
Simplify SRM.

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

vSphere review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 28, 2022

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.

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.

Daniel Moraes Silva,LPIC2,MBA

Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at DHL (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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vSphere - the only infrastructure you would need...

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 27, 2022

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.

Pros

Infrastructure virtualization.
Resource pooling/scheduling and allocation based on the threshold limits/priorities.
Provide high availability and parallel processing.

Cons

Nothing specifically identified.

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.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

vSphere one solution to your virtualization problems

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 25, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Vsphere for the following purposes:

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

Pros

Centralized management server to take care of Virtual Machines.
Easy to add and remove a virtual machine.
Detailed workflow for creating new VM(s) and removing older one.

Cons

Sometimes IP addresses for VM aren't displayed in the UI panel for VM even though generated.
No progress on stats on VM turning on.
Limited ability to keep maximum capacity for a single VM in VMware vSphere.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited cases :

Small businesses using VMware vSphere essential kits.
Meets demands of high-performance application and memory-intensive databases.
Multiple OS setups allowed

Less optimal scenarios:

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

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience