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VMware vCenter Server - Essential for sharing compute resources across an enterprise
March 14, 2017

VMware vCenter Server - Essential for sharing compute resources across an enterprise

Andrew Salinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server

It is used by our IT department and across the whole IT organization globally. It addresses the ability to deploy servers at remote and local sites without the lag time of purchasing additional hardware resources as well as flexibility and high availability capabilities.
  • High availability across different physical servers and storage for virtualized server compute.
  • Multiple network configurations/management
  • Flexible resource management/memory/storage
  • Hardware passthrough sometimes an issue
  • Network configuration can sometimes be challenging
  • ESX firewall management features somewhat hidden
  • Positive impact on the servers that are required to be purchased.
  • Positive impact on the storage requirements needed by purchasing a high availability SAN.
  • Positive impact on server reliability.
Microsoft Hyper V has gotten a lot better over the years and in Server 2016 it is even better than 2012. I still prefer Vmware due to my use of it over the years and having used it for clustering HA, sharing SAN and Compute resources has always been very reliable. I have also found the ease of configuration to be a major factor in depending on it as well as having others on my team use it.
VMware suits our organization for easily managing computing resources across multiple physical servers. It functions great with vMotion and upgrading servers with little to no downtime necessary when properly executing migrations. End users are left completely unaware of the server resource migrations that occur behind the scenes. Physical hardware failure resulting in a complete server rebuild became a thing of the past with VCenter Server.