VMware ESXi - Beyond Virtualization
January 17, 2020

VMware ESXi - Beyond Virtualization

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

Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi

We are using VMware ESXi across the whole organization to manage more than 500 servers (Windows and Linux). Working in the research and technology advancement industry, we'll have to address rapid changes/requests flowing from numerous departments, from environmental to health researches. Out of all the main business problems that VMware ESXi addresses in our organization, is the high tolerance data migration capabilities from one Data Centre to another while granting us to manage all our VMs in a timely fashioned manner.
  • Consolidate hardware for higher capacity utilization.
  • Streamline IT administration.
  • Browser based independence with new Flash based UI.
  • Visibility and less information providing for errors.
  • Avoided costs of purchasing new hardware (except hosts).
  • Data center space was freed up for other uses.
Building and operating in a virtual environment would be impossible without a reliable and efficient virtualization platform, such as VMware and Hyper-V. Before deciding which platform to choose for conducting your business operations, consider the differences in VMware and Hyper-V management, architecture, licensing, scalability, and backup integration as well as what advantages each has.

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

vMotion is well suited for increased service availability to move the entire state of a running virtual machine between hosts over a dedicated vMotion network to run the VMs with minimal downtime. Other than vMotion, I would highlight a well suited scenario like Datastore usage on disk alarm which sends emails when certain thresholds are reached and describes how to respond to the alarm when it is triggered.

VMware ESXi Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
10
Management console
10
Live virtual machine backup
10
Live virtual machine migration
10
Hypervisor-level security
9

VMware ESXi Support

The best part of their support, you can call them or submit a ticket and their team of experts will call back and help you out to resolve any issues that might occur with VMware ESXi. They have also implemented Customer Advocacy which works directly with VMware’s leadership to address improvement opportunities in the areas most critical to our customers and partners.