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VMware vSphere

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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Recent Reviews

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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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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.

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Reviews

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Chris Sumrall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use vsphere across the entire organization. It has eliminated the issue of having to have downtime of physical and virtual servers. Our physical servers have been up and running with no reboot for about 2 years. Some of our virtual servers get rebooted once a month, some once a week, and some once a day. It allows me to do maintenance on the virtual servers on the fly. If I need to add more disk space, I can do it easily without having to take down the servers.
  • Adding disk space on the fly is a big plus. We have a lot files and if I had to take down a server each time to add some more disk space, it would be a real pain.
  • The ability to be able to reboot them from a console. If we have a server that is having issues, being able to be reboot it without having to be at the site is a big help.
  • Being able to build servers from a template is another great feature. It saves me a lot of time from having to build a server from scratch. I just deploy one of my templates, catch up the updates and in a matter of an hour, we are ready to go.
  • VSphere has the ability to scan for updates, it would be nice to be able to incorporate third party updates along with the update manager.
I believe VSphere would be well suited anywhere. I like the idea of having one physical server and separate virtual servers for different applications (i.e File Servers, Application Servers, Domain Servers).
Server Virtualization (4)
100%
10.0
Virtual machine automated provisioning
100%
10.0
Management console
100%
10.0
Live virtual machine migration
100%
10.0
Hypervisor-level security
100%
10.0
  • It has had a positive ROI. We were able to set up 20 servers for the price of 3 Physical Virtual Servers. Also along with the MS Datacenter licensed per server, we haven't had to buy a new server when we need to add additional ones.
I have used Micrsoft's Hyper-V Server in the past and I hated it. Microsoft's products can consume a lot of memory some times and running Hyper-V was like having a memory hog running on a memory hog. With VSphere there is no slow down when it comes to resources if properly set up.
Veeam Backup & Replication
The IT Department uses it to manage the servers, everyone elses uses the virtual servers built within VSphere.
4
You have to have a basic understanding of how VSphere functions to do the simple tasks. For the more indepth reviewing and troubleshooting you have to have some knowledge of Linux.
  • Server uptime
  • Server Mainteance
  • ROI
  • We use pano clients for some of our computers. This allows us to run a windows pc in the virtual environment with a zeroclient (only a box, video port, usb and network port) while the PC is up and running all the time in the virtual environment.
  • Some day I hope to implement VMWare VDI along side of the VSphere.
It is a really rock solid product with a lot of great uses.
No
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The uptime and ease of managing the servers.
I wouldn't.
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