VMware ESXi Tops All Hypervisors
January 19, 2020

VMware ESXi Tops All Hypervisors

Toby Wenzel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi

We use ESXi extensively across our entire enterprise. We first deployed it as a server consolidation project, but now it's a critical business function tying two data centers together in separate cities for high availability and disaster recovery.
  • Migrate machines between hosts for high availability.
  • Highly flexible network segmentation.
  • Networking could be simplified.
  • Stay more up to date with OS selection type.
  • Number one would be consolidation.
  • The ability to migrate machines locally or to a secondary data center.
VMware ESXi is by far easier to use and the feature set is generations ahead of competitors.
Save for a couple of instances, I've had mostly excellent support from very knowledgeable engineers.

Do you think VMware ESXi delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VMware ESXi's feature set?

Yes

Did VMware ESXi live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of VMware ESXi go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy VMware ESXi again?

Yes

It's well suited for most average workloads, but not ideal for workloads which require large amounts of resources, such as CPU cores and memory.

VMware ESXi Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
Not Rated
Management console
8
Live virtual machine backup
10
Live virtual machine migration
10
Hypervisor-level security
10