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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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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:
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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| Mobile Application | No |
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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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June 17, 2023
Flexible Virtualization Software
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
June 17, 2023
VMWare vSphere.
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.
April 04, 2022
A great suite of products
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.
March 29, 2022
vSphere is great
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.
March 27, 2022
vSphere - the only infrastructure you would need...
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.
March 24, 2022
vSphere is the top product for server virtualization
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.
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.
May 04, 2021
vSphere, first step into cloud
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.
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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.
April 01, 2020
vSphere: The world of VMware
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
January 16, 2020
A whole server cluster in the palm of your hand
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
January 10, 2020
The best on-premises virtualization platform
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.
November 07, 2019
Enterprise-level workload virtualization
We use vSphere as our primary hypervisor. It supports all of our virtual servers, as well as handles our high availability and disaster recovery. It helps us get the most out of our hardware.
- It allows us to get the most density out of our hardware.
- It provides high availability/disaster recovery feature.
- Allows for automation in provisioning new resources.
- Expensive to get all the functionality.
October 26, 2019
One of the best virtualisation systems.
We use vSphere for our Client & Server infrastructure in a cluster of 7 Hosts. We host mostly Windows Servers and Clients. The Cluster is working very stable. Creating a server only takes a few minutes. You can manage all settings like CPU or RAM in just a few clicks. Very easy to use.
- Fast VM deployment.
- Support a lot of OS.
- Strong support.
- Very stable hypervisor.
- Many small bugs that can steal a lot of time.
- The HTML 5 console is not fully working. You will miss some features like Ova deployment.
- Migration is not that easy.
October 16, 2019
VMware vSphere is useful for virtualized environments
We use VMware to manage servers in a virtual environment. It is used by the IT department and has helped reduce the amount of hardware needed in the server room. As of now, we only use it at the headquarters but looking to virtualize environments at other locations in the future.
- Monitors all servers in a virtualized environment and makes it easy to see what's going on when there are issues.
- It provides a web client that's easily accessible. This makes accessing the network easier when you are outside of it.
- It allows you to set up multiple virtual networks with multiple different parameters.
- They could offer up more helpful links and training.
- Overall, it does pretty well for its capabilities.
vSphere is heavily used by my organization, it especially helped to increase the density of the virtualized servers. It also helps to achieve great performance improvements and improve the operation of the whole organization and what we do every day, as it enables us to manage and provision the huge quantity of servers and other resources we have.
- Very cost effective, big savings in terms of equipment maintenance.
- Great stability
- Very easy and simple system management.
- Easy portability and migration of services.
- Brilliant availability
- It can be quite expensive if it comes to extensive usage of the tool, so it can be not a good solution for smaller businesses.
- The configuration can be quite complex and not always too easy to understand the logic behind it.
- The user guide is not very useful for new users, it would require more explanation.
February 13, 2019
vSphere is the best hypervisor
vSphere is being used for our entire City as a hypervisor. We currently have deployed 3 clusters and over 15 hosts on 6.5 configurations.
- It is the best hypervisor in my opinion.
- V-motion is the best hypervisor migration tool. Better than the Hyper-V live migration tool.
- Very intuitive.
- Its licensing model can be pricey.
- vSphere got rid of its client based administration tool and has gone fully web UI based since 6.0 and that has made many people mad.
- Tool packages for hardware can sometimes be a pain.
December 22, 2018
vSphere gets the job done.
We use it to virtualize our servers and applications. We are about 60% virtualized hoping for about 75% and only leave the things that actually need its very own hardware to run correctly. We use it in IT to provide services to the other departments and the university as a whole.
- Vmotion.
- Easy of use.
- UI is terrible.
- Fully featured HTML client.
November 05, 2018
VSphere is key to Virtual environment success
VSphere is obviously the tool we use to manage all of our virtual machines in our VMWare environment.
It really gives us a full dashboard of the health of our entire infrastructure.
- Manages the health of our servers.
- Gives us the interface to make all necessary changes to our servers.
- The console view makes it so easy to quickly see what’s going on with the server.
- Now that we have upgraded to the latest version, things work great!
November 05, 2018
VMware vSphere - Is a mutliple server management must-have
We use it to run all our VM's/Servers for the Organization. It helps us to better manage the company and allow us to easily spin up new servers when they are needed by the org.
- It allows for high availability if you have it setup with redundancy.
- Can segregate VM's to different VLAN's, providing separation of duties.
- Easily manage all servers from one UI Web/(Older Verisons)Client.
- Some parts are not intuitive and take research or training to figure out.
- Classes to take exams to get certified in vSphere can be expensive.
- ESXi upgrades can be a pain if you are doing them yourself.
We use VMWare vSphere at my business now for the last few years now and have implemented across the whole company now and all our servers because it makes our servers hardware independent and if we ever have a problem, we can restore our servers from a VM backup quickly and easily without any reconfiguration. When we have a hardware failure, we simply move the server VM to a different vSphere host effortlessly. Also when a server is running low on resources, we simply allocate more resources to that server on the fly and its back up to speed and running nicely again! So easy and convenient to setup and maintain as well and VMWare is always releasing updates with new features and functionality and stands behind their products 100%.
- Makes your server hardware independent, so you no longer need to worry about hardware failure and where to find specific replacement parts.
- Reallocation of server resources quickly and on the fly, so if your server is slowing down, you can beef it up with a few clicks of the mouse.
- Server recovery, when there is a problem, you can restore a backed up entire virtual server to the recovered host or a new host quickly and easily.
- Pricing, VMWare does have several free options available for people that want to handle a lot of the management themselves, but if you want to get the top of the line fully managed version of vSphere, it can be quite pricey.
- Working with server hardware makers to make it clear which server hardware is compatible with vSphere, sometimes it can be hard to figure out if a server box is compatible with vSphere.
April 26, 2018
vSphere 6.5 Review
vSphere is used across our whole organization by the IT department. vSphere allows us to run multiple virtual servers on one single physical server, which makes server management very easy. The ability to take snapshots of virtual machines and roll back at any given time when faced with a problem is simply amazing.
- Taking Snapshots of VMs and roll back to the previous state when faced with a problem.
- Template creation - Once you have that perfect template you can easily create new VMs. Very useful feature.
- VMotion - Being able to perform live migrations of a virtual machine from one physical server to another, without any downtime.
- vSphere crushes the competition in all aspects, the only negative thing is the license price. Very expensive.
April 16, 2018
Great tool for virtual server environment
We decided to use vSphere on my client to virtualize all the company's servers (approximately 100 users)
With this we get to dispense with all physical servers.
- Ease of implementation of virtual servers
- Simple maintenance of servers, scalability of resources, etc.
- Reliability and robustness
- We haven't found any functionality missing. It fulfills its function perfectly
April 09, 2018
vSphere for virtualization needs
It's used across the whole organization. In fact, we virtualized almost all our environment. It's cost-effective and the deployment is faster and more convenient.
- Possibility to move load from servers using the vmotion across a VMWare Cluster
- Possible to increase ressources live, for example add more RAM ou CPUs
- Provisionning of new servers is really fast and easy
- Licences of more advanced versions with more features are expensive
March 23, 2018
vSphere Beast!
vSphere is used throughout my company, we use the solutions in-house and many of our clients use vSphere too.
Some of the deployment are on vSphere and hosted in a VDI environment where clients are running A to Z of everyday stuff on Hosted VDI. It's proving to be really cost effective and availability through private cloud makes it 100 % reachable from anywhere anytime.
Some of the deployment are on vSphere and hosted in a VDI environment where clients are running A to Z of everyday stuff on Hosted VDI. It's proving to be really cost effective and availability through private cloud makes it 100 % reachable from anywhere anytime.
- Cloud-based deployment makes it easier to access your desktop from anywhere on any device
- Less hardware cost (end users running thin clients and using hosted VDI's )
- Better management, security, and provisioning of the machine is simple and easy
- Pricing for home users (users running building labs, 60 days evaluation period - not enough imho)
- Vmotion | tools | configuration issues
- Lack of information (Knowledge base)