The best hypervisor for private clouds.
March 24, 2022
The best hypervisor for private clouds.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi
We're using VMware ESXi to virtualize our infrastructure, servers, and desktops. Our needs are to maximize our physical servers and increase availability. Our business requires very low downtime, including maintenance, backups and we need to support a lot of OS versions. Servers are across Canada and US, in private DC and colocations, using WAN and Internet links.
- Performance
- Reliability
- Security
- Maintenance
- interoperability
- licensing
- pricing
- Very easy deployment.
- Automated upgrade/patching.
- High cost of licensing/maintenance.
- Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer) and Hyper-V
Much more reliable and well-integrated than competitors, with a solid central management console. Citrix is having good performance but requires a specific kernel to leverage, HyperV is good only for windows OS.
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