Simple to use virtulization
May 14, 2021

Simple to use virtulization

Adrian Alessi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi

We are using VMware ESXI to leverage hardware resources to host multiple VM's across our organization and we are also hosting server vm's for subtenants. The servers are being used to host terminal servers and also being used by our organisation to host and stream applications to our mac's using parallels remote application server
  • Low cost
  • High end features included for the cost
  • Easy to setup
  • Great support
  • Support can be complicated to understand at times
  • obviously not designed for novices
  • Mac osx support for management isnt the best
  • Saved one company having to buy hardware all together as we were able to leverage unused resources on a subtenants server
  • A lot cheaper in our use than a hosted server
  • Caused some confidentiality issues but was able to be dealt with
  • Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
ESXI is a lot cheaper than than a hosted server. Having onsite virtulization was more cost effective. There are lot more features associated with hosted servers and alot more flexibility but in our use case it was not as cost effective so we went with VMware ESXi virtulization on site

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

Great option for small businesses that need to virtualise a few servers on limited hardware. A lot more cost effective that hosted servers. Great in small businesses where you need to move servers from hardware to hardware when upgrading and allows for minimal impact when migrating. Also great for disaster recovery

VMware ESXi Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
10
Management console
7
Live virtual machine backup
10
Hypervisor-level security
10