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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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- Live virtual machine migration (64)9.696%
- Virtual machine automated provisioning (61)9.191%
- Management console (66)8.989%
- Hypervisor-level security (61)8.080%
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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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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| 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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February 26, 2016
vSphere - See what you're missing!
We currently use vSphere together with Virtual Center across our entire organization. It has allowed us to consolidate 1000's of physical servers into a much smaller foot print while allowing for quicker provisioning of systems to meet business needs.
- vSphere allows us to consolidate what once would have been 1000's of physical servers into a much smaller footprint by virtualizing those workloads. This allows for a much more manageable environment and is a tremendous costs savings for our company.
- DRS is a feature that allows us to distribute workloads across multiple vSphere hosts making it easier to scale out and manage workloads. This feature allows for automated actions to take place to minimize or eliminate performance bottlenecks.
- VMotion is another feature that gives us the ability to migrate workloads without any downtime to other vSphere hosts. This allows for maintenance on our physical hardware or upgrades to that underlying hardware with zero impact to the virtual guests running on it. This is a huge feature of this product.
- If leveraging virtual center for management of your vSphere hosts another feature is the high availability when utilizing clustering. This allows vm guests to restart on working vSphere hosts should you encounter a hardware failure on one of your physical hosts.
- I would still like to see a move to an HTML5 interface for managing virtual center and the vSphere hosts.
- The complete incorporation of the update manager client into the web client would also be a welcome addition.
- I would like to see DRS take into consideration more than just CPU/MEM resources when calculating vmotion migrations. There are other products that do this and I would like to see VMware take a step in that direction.
80%
8.0
- There is a definite cost savings by being able to purchase a hand full of physical servers for virtualization of 1000's of guests versus those hardware costs of not going the virtualization route. The ROI will depend on your sizing and needs.
- Virtualizing with vSphere does lead to faster provisioning times for customers which in turn allows for more efficient use of company time.
- The end result is a better customer experience, that goes for the application owners receiving their vm guests quickly and then the end customers enjoying the applications or products running on those systems.
The only other solution that isn't too far behind would be Microsoft Hyper-V. This is a product we only have limited exposure to but seeing that VMware is the leader in this space and we are very happy with what we have today there is no desire to explorer how far along Hyper-V has come.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
August 07, 2014
VmWare vSphere Helps Small Company Handle Large Data
Score 9 out of 10
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We use vSphere to manage 50 virtual machines on three physical hosts and it has created a difference in our workload and hardware needs that our physical infrastructure and budget would not previously allow. It is used by our entire company to hold our back-end infrastructure, as well as many project related servers, and is managed by our very small team of two administrators.
- The product is very easy to understand and implement. It installs and helps manage multiple hosts and can create a single management point that was not previously available when using physical hardware servers. There are multiple views that can adapt to the administrator with object level permissions that give your IT team flexibility to delegate tasks to less experienced administrators.
- vSphere is a very stable platform, and with the newest database moving to Postgres instead of mySQL or SQL server, it is even more robust and easy to manage. It is very reliable in that we don't have to worry about the management server going down, or the vSphere product having issues that cause us grief.
- vSphere upgrades very easily using an upgrade installer to get you to the latest version. It will upgrade the database and product in one fell swoop, leaving you time to manage the servers themselves instead of dealing with the product itself.
- The newer versions have a Web UI that does not require installation of a desktop software to manage virtual machines.
- The upgrade process, while easy to do, does take some time as it is upgrading the entire database to another version. A progress bar of some sort during this process would be very helpful as you would know that progress is being made rather than wondering if things are hung and you need to start again.
- The actual client application is only available on Windows, so if you have a mac or linux machine, you have to use the Web UI, which, while robust, is not as seamless as the client application itself.
- In using vSphere as our virtualization technology, we have been able to leverage our technicians to other projects and companies to do setup and support of the VMWare vSphere product.
- In virtualizing our environment, we find that we save significantly on our power and cooling bills as there is less heat created and less energy used with less physical hardware.
- The flexibility that the product has given us has been very freeing. If a new project needs a new server to be created, we simply have to login and create a new virtual machine instead of finding appropriate hardware and making sure we have enough resources and rack space for the new machine
- Microsoft Hyper-V,XenServer
vSphere is by far the easiest and most stable virtualization software out there. It works extremely well and blows others away. Even though Hyper-V is licensed much cheaper, you get what you pay for as vSphere is a better product overall and fits our business in a much more usable way than the Microsoft competitor.
- Vendor implemented
- Professional services company
PC Connection handled our purchasing and implementation of the vSphere originally when 4.0 was the current version. They did a great job contracting out the job and finding someone that fit our needs.
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Change management was minimal
- We never realized how much we didn't know about what kind of switches we needed for our data storage setup. We implemented an iSCSI SAN at the same time, so we were surprised at the different features that the various switches had to have to house all of the features we were capable of having.