VMware Review
August 09, 2018

VMware Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi

It's used to manage guest OS/virtual machines within our organizations Unified Communications infrastructure. ESXi is being used by multiple groups within our organization. ESXi helps reduce our hardware footprint while improving availability of services.
  • Allows system administrators to manage multiple hosts via one interface.
  • Perform multiple management tasks
  • Provides excellent memory management
  • Learning curve for support staff
  • live migration of hosts supporting realtime protocols
  • some maintenance requires downtime
  • Reduced hardware costs
  • Increased efficiencies in operations
  • Increased DR capabilities decreasing recovery times
Vendor tested and recommended for Unified Communications infrastructure
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager), Cisco Unified Contact Center
Supports a high amount of guest host

VMware ESXi Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
8
Management console
9
Live virtual machine backup
8
Live virtual machine migration
6
Hypervisor-level security
8