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VMware vSphere

Overview

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
Incentivized
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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vSphere Review

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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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Live virtual machine migration (64)
    9.6
    96%
  • Virtual machine automated provisioning (61)
    9.1
    91%
  • Management console (66)
    8.9
    89%
  • Hypervisor-level security (61)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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Standard

$995.00

Cloud
per year

Enterprise

$3,995.00

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

vmware vsphere esxi removing snapshots manually from ctobob

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Demo of vSphere 5.5's New Flash Read Cache

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VMware vSphere 5 HA Demo

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

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How to delete the vCLS VMs

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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

8.9
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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VMware vSphere Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
April 04, 2022

vSphere Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • High Availability
  • vMotion
  • Infrastructure virtualization
  • Easily we can add and remove the virtual machines
  • Integration with Kubernetes
  • It should have hardware monitoring
March 29, 2022

vSphere is great

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Fast resource provisioning.
  • Quick virtual server reboots.
  • Solid performance monitoring.
  • Clearer documentation on upgrade paths.
  • Simpler compatibility matrix.
  • Simplify SRM.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
March 09, 2022

vSphere Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
John Predmore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Steve Athanas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Md Tanjil Islam Bappi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
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