Item: VMware ESXi
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Esxi was used to host and manage numerous virtual machines across the departments and administer the virtual machines and hosts. Esxi is an easy-to-understand and self-explanatory application in VMware, scheduled patching is done on all the virtual machines and hosts to enable seamless management of virtual machines. We managed about 250+ machines for our customers.

Pros and Cons

COnfiguration is easy the self explanatory in ESXi.
ESXi supports various operating systems as well.
ESXi is reliable and gives great performance.
ESXi makes functionality seamless.

Unable to integrate with 3rd party backup applications.
Integration with 3rd party applications could help simplify tasks and reduce multiple applications.
Performance tracking should be available in data analytics format.

Return on Investment

ESXi is definitely a good investment at a nominal price.
Finding an application at low costs does makes a good business.
This would be a good recommendation for other business users.

Alternatives Considered

Hyper-V

Hyper-V utilizes more resources compared to ESXi and it gets affected when it is used to scale up and installation on Microsoft windows is easy however it does not stand to the ease of access of ESXi, a user of ESXi would find it difficult to migrate to another application.

Key Insights

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

Yes

Are you happy with VMware ESXi's feature set?

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

Other Software Used

Hyper-V, Dell EMC Networker, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware makes hosts management very easy to configure and minimal steps are required. Accessing via center makes it easy to manage about 50+ hosts, otherwise, it would not be an easy task to view and manage the hosts in a single interface.VMware can be recommended to use if people are looking for applications to manage the hosts at low costs if not much third-party integration is not involved.

Ease with Esxi..!!

Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi