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VMware vSphere

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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.

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vSphere is a versatile product that has found widespread use across various industries and organizations. Users rely on vSphere to manage …
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vSphere is great

10 out of 10
March 29, 2022
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Where I work we are a VMware virtual shop, meaning most all of our systems are virtualized. Server virtualization comes with plenty of …
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10 out of 10
March 09, 2022
In my current organization, I am using vSphere in my project to build servers. We have servers with Linux and Windows platform. Where our …
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Popular Features

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  • Live virtual machine migration (64)
    9.6
    96%
  • Virtual machine automated provisioning (61)
    9.2
    92%
  • Management console (66)
    8.9
    89%
  • Hypervisor-level security (61)
    8.1
    81%

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$995.00

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$3,995.00

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vSphere 7 - How to get started with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)

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Demo of OVF Template Deployment in vSphere 4

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Features

Server Virtualization

Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

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Avg 8.3
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Product Details

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.

vSphere features encompass:

  • Maximization of Data Center Capacity Utilization - Using a forward-looking analytics engine, vSphere can predict future demand, get recommendations, and automate reclamation and rightsizing.
  • Optimize Budget Management - Manage tight IT budgets by increasing ROI from existing resources and leveraging chargeback and showback.
  • Maximize SLAs - Maximize SLAs with performance monitoring, predictive analytics and faster troubleshooting.
  • Regulations Adherence - Enables governance and compliance to industry standards.
  • Enhance Workload Performance - Improve infrastructure performance by offloading security and networking functions from the CPUs to Data Processing Units (DPUs).​
  • Accelerate Business Innovation with AI - Enhancement of the performance of large AI/ML workloads with support for up to 16 vGPUs per VM, 32 passthrough devices per VM, and the deployment of NVLink and NVSwitch technology.
  • Improve Infrastructure Health - Maximizes the visibility to keep workloads performing optimally.
  • Self-service for DevOps - Provide self-service access to infrastructure resources to DevOps and Dev teams for faster time to market.
  • Run Modern Apps - Build and run modern apps using containers and VMs on a unified platform for simplified management.

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Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Live virtual machine migration highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of VMware vSphere are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
  • 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
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.
June 17, 2023

VMWare vSphere.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • VM Snapshots.
  • Migrating VMs to other hosts.
  • Monitoring.
  • It is always running into problems when updating.
  • Extra pricing for extra features.
  • More plug-ins are needed.
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.
M. Randy Harris, Jr. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Reduce Hardware Cost
  • Increase Computing Capacity and Efficiency
  • Reduce Downtime
  • Complexity
  • Initial Installation Cost
  • Licensing
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.
April 04, 2022

vSphere Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • High Availability
  • vMotion
  • Infrastructure virtualization
  • Easily we can add and remove the virtual machines
  • Integration with Kubernetes
  • It should have hardware monitoring
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • A broad suite of products available to consumers.
  • An immense community and tons of knowledgebase/documentation.
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.
March 29, 2022

vSphere is great

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Fast resource provisioning.
  • Quick virtual server reboots.
  • Solid performance monitoring.
  • Clearer documentation on upgrade paths.
  • Simpler compatibility matrix.
  • Simplify SRM.
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.
March 28, 2022

vSphere review

Daniel Moraes Silva,LPIC2,MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Cloud
  • Standalone
  • Clustering
  • Disk mapping for VCS solution.
  • Oracle RAC structure.
  • VM backups.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Infrastructure virtualization.
  • Resource pooling/scheduling and allocation based on the threshold limits/priorities.
  • Provide high availability and parallel processing.
  • Nothing specifically identified.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
vSphere is utilized for total environment virtualization. This includes server virtualization, end-user desktop virtualization (utilizing VMware horizon view), as well as disaster recovery. By utilizing vSphere, we eliminate the reliance on a specific hardware platform as well as ease standard maintenance tasks through technologies such as vMotion and storage vMotion.
  • Server virtualization.
  • Live migrations of VM's.
  • Resource management.
  • Quality management of new releases.
  • Constantly increasing licensing costs.
  • Quality of 1st level support.
Enterprise organizations with a large number of servers are well suited to use vSphere. Due to the licensing costs, there can be a high price tag. Smaller organizations without the budget or expertise to manage the environment should probably avoid it.
Heeran Rathod, BSc | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Managing machines.
  • Snapshots
  • Cloning
  • Storage
  • Missing desktops.
  • Quicker provisioning.
vSphere is well suited when you have to deliver a solution that is going to require a vast number of virtual machines. It allows for quick provisioning of machines that can aid less downtime or business impact.

It is not that well suited if you are only going to be using a small number of ESXi servers or a small virtual infrastructure. It's overkill in that kind of scenario.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use vSphere in our environment as our main virtual infrastructure software. It allows us to save money and resources on server hardware and data center space. vSphere is a great way to consolidate and reduce the footprint of your data center equipment and cost.
  • vSphere has a single pane management portal.
  • vCenter is a great part of vSphere
  • vSphere makes it easy to update.
  • vSphere should incorporate multifactor with duo
  • vSphere can be challenging to set up secure authentication.
  • vSphere uses Microsoft ADFS for secure cards and log-in.
vSphere has been well suited for us in the following areas. 1. Building out new servers. 2. Easy to set up test servers. 3. Easy to set up and test in an isolated network. 4. Easy to manage server resources. 5. Easy to manage user access to VCenter.
March 09, 2022

vSphere Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In my current organization, I am using vSphere in my project to build servers. We have servers with Linux and Windows platform. Where our critical applications are running. vSphere provide an intface from where we can easily manager all servers in a single window. we can easily scale up or down the resources on servers running under vSphere
  • Adding a physical server in vSphere is very easy
  • we can build new server using template which make server build very easy
  • we can task backup using snapshot and restore very easily
  • the user interface of vSphere can be more user friendly
  • It should allow multiple vendor to add hardware in UI
  • It should have performance monitoring of hardware
We can have multiple hardware server attached to vSphere and we can easily move the Linux or Window server through vMotion in case of any issue on that particular hardware failure or in case of any performance issue. In case of IBM pSeries server hardware ,we can't use vSphere and build LPARs for AIX and Linux servers.
John Predmore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use vSphere exclusively as our hypervisor in our datacenters. We use it for server as well as desktop virtualization. vSphere has allowed us to be extremely flexible with regards to server infrastructure. I can't imagine ever managing an environment without it!
  • vSphere has a very robust feature set. HA, DRS and distributed switching are all capabilities that increase uptime and flexibility.
  • vSphere has a very broad partner ecosystem. This permits users a much greater selection of solutions beyond what VMware offers.
  • Reliability. For me I can reduce it to just that one word.
  • The primary improvement I'd like to see in vSphere is its pricing. I feel it is a bit high compared to the market. But I do believe it is the market leader.
  • I'd like to see the Enterprise edition brought back. We used it before it was removed and I felt it was a very good small enterprise set of features.
I believe vSphere is still the go to hypervisor on the market. I know there are others that have come a long way from when they were introduced, but they still have a ways to go. I believe that in all but the smallest IT environments virtualization makes sense for servers, and vSphere is where you should start.
Steve Athanas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
vSphere is currently in use supporting the infrastructure for our server, research, and desktop virtualization platforms. It used across the university system and is the standard for virtualization across the university. It is in use by all faculty, staff, and students. It effectively and immediately solves multiple IT issues like server and application density, hardware vendor lock-in, and substantially reduces application downtime.
  • VM management.
  • Reducing application downtime.
  • Providing fault tolerance for VMs at the OS or hardware layer.
  • Reducing excess compute capacity and reducing hardware spend.
  • Pricing. vSphere is the most expensive virtualization platform on the market. It's the best, but you pay for it.
  • Support. VMware has a great support organization, but the product is so large and complex that sometimes users find bugs before they do.
  • Complexity. vSphere used to be extraordinarily simple to implement - over the last decade as features have grown, so has complexity of the solution.
vSphere should be at the top of the list for any company that is still using physical servers, or is looking to being a cloud migration journey. Additionally, companies that are currently leveraging on-premises hypervisors should strongly consider a migration to vSphere given the superior industry recognition the product has. VMware has invested substantially more resources into this market and their products than competitors, and has a broad ecosystem of partners to maximize the ROI.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
vSphere is used across the whole organization for managing our virtual environment. Specifically we have two esxi hosts, one in each office location, with redundant data storage. What VSphere brings to the environment is the ability to add Virtual TPM encryption to our Windows servers. It would be nice if the built in KMS support applied to the Vcenter standard kit instead of just the plus kit.
  • Central management
  • Adds Virtual TPM support to the VMWare environment
  • Ease of virtual server access
  • Built in KMS server could be available to the VSphere Standard kit users.
  • Virtual Machines with hardware tied to the VM cant be backed up because of snapshots.
  • Regular video cards are not supported in esxi and special hardware must be used instead.
vSphere is well suited for multiple VMWare hosts and can be very useful in larger enterprises where vMotion is used to load balance and failover running virtual machines. In smaller businesses with one or two hosts then the features can be overkill. The addition of virtual TPM support is a very nice addition to provide vm security in a more Microsoft supported methodology.
Md Tanjil Islam Bappi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
vSphere:
The two core components of vSphere are ESXi and vCenter Server. ESXi is the virtualization platform on which you can create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances. vCenter Server is a service that acts as a central administrator for ESXi hosts connected to a network.
We are a local deployment partner for VMware products in Bangladesh, most of the customers are Banks, governments, Telco, Pharmaceuticals, and other Manufacturing companies.
Banks run their In-house application, HRMS, Card management systems (CMS), Internet Banking services (IBS), Network Monitoring systems (NMS), Authentication Systems, Central Access Management, Mail servers (Exchange, Zimbra), and other financial applications.
Similarly, Telco's runs their Billing, CDR, VAS, IVR, Mail server, Process automation, on-demand resource allocation for Virtual machines to the department, Internal infrastructure applications (Active Directory, File Server, Access Management system, etc).
Corporates run their ERP, Tally, Access Control System, HRMS, Process automation, surveillance systems.
Manufacturing Industries run their Production Management, HRMS, surveillance systems, Billing, Invoicing, Delivery management application on vSphere.
vSphere provides compute resource utilization, allows users to move workload between physical host/storage called vMotion.
It allows users to perform maintenance activity without/minimum downtime to their production environment. Provides easy provisioning of resources to the business-critical applications.
  • vMotion that provides seamless movement of Virtual Machines between physical hosts and datastores.
  • Ease of Manage: vCenter provides very good management experience to the users.
  • It provides hassle free upgrade of versions, which requires good planning.
  • Easy to manage datastore, networks, CPU and memory resources.
  • It also allows to convert the physical machine and bring it to vSphere Environment with minimum effort.
  • Licensing cost is little bit high
  • To manage users should have good knowledge on Virtualization technology, which may require addition training. Which costs around $1200 per person.
  • Deployment require expert people, which can be very costly depend on business regions.
Good [about vSphere]:
1. Easy to manage
2. Easy provisioning Virtual Machines.
3. Allows to create clone, export the VMs.
4. Allows to move between hosts even in some cases it allows to move machines between different data-center.
5. Allows hot add on CPU, Memory.
6. Advanced Network Management features.

Bad [about vSphere]:
1. Licensing Costs are high.
2. Training Costs are high.
3. Professional deployment costs also high.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
vSphere is our main hypervisor being used at our organization. We run a variety of technologies and workloads on vSphere-backed VMs; including large Oracle databases, Active Directory, SharePoint, SAP, HRMS, and few other mission critical systems. vSphere has saved our organization spending money on bare-metal hardware.
  • Easy VM management.
  • Vmotion.
  • Editing resources.
  • License are expensive, we are considering AHV now.
  • Datastore management is not friendly.
  • Upgrading is not easy.
With the HCI becoming more popular, you have to look at your priorities. If basic needs are fulfilled, then you're good to go with AHV. There are whitepapers now that AHV supports SAP and S4/Hana. When we purchase them back then, there werent any whitepapers, hence why we deployed VMware on top of our Super Micro Nutanix box.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use vSphere to manage our virtual server and desktop infrastructure. We have had a push to visualize as many servers as possible. We decided to go with VMware vSphere and have no been disappointed. vSphere has offered us an entire platform of structure and flexibility from hypervisor host management to guest vm configuration. In addition to being an excellent virtual server management infrastructure, it is a great base to build VMware Horizon View on. Everything within vSphere is easy to understand, find, and manage.
  • Host Management
  • Guest Management
  • Streamlines Updates
  • Easy to configure and apply Security Technical Implementation Guidelines
  • Allow enable EVC without requiring host shutdown
  • More detail in recent tasks. Instead of just showing a task called "Reconfigure virtual machine" also have a link to more detailed information as to what was reconfigured, changed or removed.
  • Allow searching tasks or events
vSphere is the complete vmware package. If you are interested in becoming a vmware customer, vSphere makes the entire management platform nice to work with. The benefits of working with virtual machines is made possible by vSphere. I cannot think of any scenario where vSphere would not be a great solution for managing virtual servers.
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
vSphere is our primary hypervisor being used at our organization. We run a wide variety of technologies and workloads on vSphere-backed VMs; including large Oracle databases, VDI, Active Directory, OpenShift clusters, student information systems, finance systems, and more. vSphere has saved our organization spending money on bare-metal hardware. It has also allowed us to be much more flexible and efficient with our hardware resources.
  • vMotion and svMotion are seamless and efficient.
  • Storage, Compute, and Memory thin provision.
  • Snapshots are extremely helpful in times where a quick point in time recovery is needed.
  • Licensing is expensive.
  • Datastore management can have a high administrative cost.
  • Web interface can be a bit slower than their client used to be.
Without vCenter (VMware management software), vSphere is suited for small businesses that have disparate storage and networking. vSphere is an enterprise-class hypervisor that can run a diverse variety of workloads. Technically, it is best-in-class for all functions and features, and can be implemented on a variety of workloads (database, VDI, etc.). According to white-papers, third-party tests, and my experience, virtual technologies add only negligible performance differences versus bare-metal systems.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we're using vSphere across our small organization. It allows us to maintain many machines with ease. Instead of creating and managing physical servers, we can spin up test environments quickly.
  • Easy VM management, including storage and CPUs.
  • Fault tolerance is great.
  • Some alerts fail to fire.
  • Trouble with Linux support in terms of a standalone client.
vSphere is great for creating and managing lots of VMs quickly. It may not be the best for a smaller company due to cost, but the management and features mostly make up the difference.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
VMware vSphere is currently being used by the IT and Change Management departments to address test and preproduction virtual machines and perform UAT (User Acceptance Tests) and Regression Tests on every release we perform and authorize. The advantages are several: we have a continuous, fallback-capable pool of servers replicating our internal infrastructure for each project, which we can keep fresh via snapshots between releases, all of this without actually impacting the production infrastructure.
  • Virtualization
  • Accessibility
  • Further compatibility
  • Easier scalability
vSphere excels at handling ESX/ESXi hypervisors. The advantages are several: having a continuous, fallback-capable pool of servers for testing purposes, including imaging, cloning and training; a reliable IaaS platform for mission critical business processes that can be handled even via mobile device (we have taken and restored snapshots of entire server farms via vSphere from our mobile phones in occasions when we're in field work); and an easy to understand and operate frontend for the VMs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use vSphere to manage all our internal VMS. All our departments utilize at least one server for their work, and VMware is our chosen application. It helps consolidate our physical hardware, which used to be around 20-30 servers into only five as our hosts. It also holds VMS on our DMZ.
  • Network segregation.
  • Fast deployment of VMS.
  • Better support for ageing hardware
  • Interface can be a little slow.
If you're looking for a convenient way of test and delete, then this is for you! You can quickly build an isolated network like a DMZ and test away without harming your production kit. Backing up VMs is ideal, too, as you can redeploy the entire system in a few minutes. The only thing I could think of as to why you wouldn't want this would be cost, or if you're looking to place your infrastructure in the cloud.
December 24, 2019

VSphere: simply the best.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Vpshere is used to manage our entire fleet of in-house servers and will soon be used to manage our storage servers as well. Every department in my organization will have its servers managed by it and VSphere allows us to easily manage our in-house virtualized inventory from a single pane of glass.
  • Great suite of tools
  • Easy centralized management
  • Still needs Flash for a few things.
  • Menu structure not really intuitive.
It's great for managing a large Enterprise-grade fleet of in-house servers, especially across multiple sites—it really shines there. It's less suited to managing a small fleet—you may find that you don't need all the features and can get by with Microsoft Hyper-V or another cheaper alternative.
December 17, 2019

vSphere Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have few different environments--managed hosting, internal cloud, VDI, lab. Our developers are using vSphere with cloudstack for the automation and testing out product.
  • 7 without flash is really helpful
  • vSphere without PSC is helpful
  • Desktop client to connect the vSphere
vSphere is well suited for our internal cloud. Since we are moving to AWS and decided not to migrate to VMware on AWS, I think in another 2 years we will be out of VMware.
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