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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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- 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 |
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| 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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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.
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.
June 14, 2023
vSphere is the Gold Standard
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.
April 04, 2022
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Score 10 out of 10
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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.
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.
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.
March 28, 2022
vSphere review
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.
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.
March 25, 2022
vSphere one solution to your virtualization problems
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.
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.
March 24, 2022
vSphere the easy way to manage ESXi hosts
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.
March 24, 2022
Review of a great product we have used for years
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.
March 09, 2022
vSphere Review
Score 10 out of 10
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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
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 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.
May 06, 2021
VSphere adds a lot to the enterprise and surprisingly it adds to the small business environment as well.
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.
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.
Score 3 out of 10
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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.
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.
March 03, 2020
vSphere is simply best-in-class
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.
January 20, 2020
Great, but a little pricey
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.
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.
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.
December 24, 2019
VSphere: simply the best.
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.
December 17, 2019
vSphere Review
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.