ESXi is great.
March 06, 2020
ESXi is great.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi
A couple years before I came to the company, the decision was made to convert all the physical servers into virtual machines using ESXi. The process itself is easy as VMware or third parties provide you with the tools to do so. All the changes we've made since I've been here wouldn't have been nearly as easy if we were working physical servers rather than using a virtual environment. Spinning up a new virtual machine or cloning an existing to test changes before going to production makes things easy.
- Monitoring and reporting of virtual machines in environment.
- In-depth configuration and management of hypervisor and virtual machines.
- Uptime 900+ days.
- Some of the events could be more informative.
- Consolidating multiple physical servers into virtual machines on one or more hypervisors.
- Management of virtual machines is outstanding.
- Backups from hypervisor are easier and cheaper than physical servers.
Unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to use much of any of the alternatives to ESXi. Just Hyper-V for a bit, but not enough to give a definitive answer on.
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?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy VMware ESXi again?
Yes