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.