VMware ESXi saves us money and space in the data center
April 24, 2019
VMware ESXi saves us money and space in the data center
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is used within our university to virtualize the servers in our data center in order to minimize the physical server footprint. It allows us to maximize our resources by fully utilizing all of the available memory and CPU in each host. VMware ESXi also provides us with redundancy and high-availability features to ensure that all of our servers are available at all times.
- Using VMware ESXi together with VCenter is a great platform for maintaining the VMs, virtual networks, building data centers, and tracking what is going on with our VMs.
- I like it because it takes control of all the resources of my computer and presents them as a single pool of resources, also allows me to manage my host, to provide different services in a way centralized and dynamic.
- Super easy to deploy and amazing customer service and support.
- I do not like the web client for VMware ESXi.
- Cost is high.
- Everything else is good.
- We have not needed to add individual servers into the data center.
- Cost of power for cooling and servers has been held steady.
- We have not needed to expand the data center even though the total number of servers has doubled. We were able to add 2 additional hosts to cover the load instead of having to add 37 physical servers.
At the time we installed VMware ESXi, we did not evaluate any other products. It was the best solution, so that was the one we went with.