VMware ESXi is a great hypervisor for those who can afford it
December 31, 2024

VMware ESXi is a great hypervisor for those who can afford it

Carlos Coque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware ESXi

We have dozens of virtual servers in the office and use VMware ESXi as a hypervisor to consolidate them in a few physical servers, getting performance and reliability while using less energy and hardware parts in our operation.
VMware ESXi has different versions for various kinds of company profiles and we ended up choosing the one that best fitted our needs.

Pros

  • Virtual Machine creation and management
  • Access to network drives (NAS, SAN, etc)
  • Load balancing

Cons

  • Pricing is stratospheric
  • Support needs improvement
  • Relationship with client needs improvement
  • It makes Virtual Machines fast
  • I makes Virtual Machine deployment easier
  • It makes Virtual machine management easy
In my opinion, vCenter is very easy to use. Obviously, it has so many resources and options that it is hard to learn everything, especially if you use it in a small environment. However, the basics of creating and managing VMs are very intuitive and easy to master over time.

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

No

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

VMware ESXi has different 'flavors' for different company profiles. In my opinion, there is a flavor to every client style. The only problem is that it has been disclosed that Broadcom, the new VMware ESXi's owner, said it will focus just on its biggest clients. Then, after that new approach, I believe that VMware ESXi is now not as attractive as before to medium and small business. Technically speaking, though, I still believe it is a great virtualization solution if you can afford it.

VMware ESXi Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
8
Management console
9
Live virtual machine backup
8
Live virtual machine migration
8
Hypervisor-level security
8

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