VMware ESXi for everyone!
January 12, 2020
VMware ESXi for everyone!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi
We leverage VMware ESXi as our main hypervisor, spread across multiple hosts. It is used to support a large amount of VM's that we use for day to day business operations, as well as a separate network for our lab. It is utilized by our entire organization because each department is tied to at least a handful of VM's. Our Engineering team manages the environment, and it solves a lot of problems for us. We consistently perform P2V conversions of other equipment and then place it on our virtual infrastructure for easier management and backups. We continue to use it because of the outstanding reliability that we see within the environment, and the ease of patch management that is becoming more and more necessary as technology becomes more readily available.
- It has more virtual operating system support in real life applications, not just in paper.
- Migration from previous versions is a breeze. With vCenter, it can even be automated.
- During the upgrade procedures, problem VIB's are sometimes a pain to find - This was remedied with the release of full HTML though, so this particular problem is only applicable to management via flash.
- Automatic cleaning of Zombie VDK files would be an incredibly nice feature to have.
- We have been able to consolidate equipment to save valuable rack space.
- Simplified, central management reduces labor and training costs.
ESXi is the easiest to implement, almost every vendor supports a virtual appliance now. ESXi is also extremely reliable with an easy to follow licensing structure. This makes new deployments and consulting much more fluid and in turn easier to make recommendations as business needs change for my clients. I recommend this against any other hypervisor, with the exception of certain applications that are more suited for containers.
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