VMs and ESXI info from a good user
August 17, 2017
VMs and ESXI info from a good user
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi
I started to use ESXi as a way to build, control, configure, and push-out virtual machines (servers) throughout my company. I am now able to set out a selection of systems to individuals to use and once done and I have the data and work completed from an employee I can easily keep data and delete that used VM which I can relaunch at anytime from anywhere. I use these VMs so that I don't have to worry about any viruses and malware getting back into my main server. ESXi also works great with VCenter and setting up virtual networks.
- IT admin has complete control over these VMs through ESXi as well as being able to release a new VM if the prior VM system has any issue, this saves hundreds of hours for our admins.
- Using ESXi together with VCenter is a great platform for maintaining the VMs, virtual networks, building datacenters, and tracking what is going on with our VMs.
- ESXi that I had set up as a lab to learn from and to teach others off of saved our entire network from a serious hack out of China. When I set up this ESXi as a learning platform I set it in a way that it was the main point of our network (by accident) this accident stopped a brute force attack that was done through a 3 day weekend with over thousands of attempts to hack into. They only got into a BS VM that was set for learning. This saved us a lot of money and embarrassment.
- Better way of teaching, make ESXI easier to learn to use
- Configuration need to be a bit easier to understand
- VMware needs to do something about the learning costs
- Great return in savings on physical systems
- Great savings not having to buy so many physical machines, when you can just build new VM systems at no cost and a few minutes
- Turning P2V had really helped out again saving money not having to replace old or failed systems
I have worked with several other virtual machine platforms such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Oracle VM VirtualBox and find not only the ESXi is a better platform for us, ESXi also seems to be easier once you have learned the basics.