Item: VMware vCenter
Rating: 8
Author: Flavio Mancini

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vCenter across the whole organization. We have two sites with VMware 6.0 in stretched cluster to have a redundant and geographically distributed environment to ensure the provision of services even in the event of a fault and also to have a recovery time near-zero data loss. With this configuration, we decided to abandon the VMware SRM feature.

The implementation and management is not so difficult and is a good solution but with elevated costs.

Pros and Cons

Analysis
Management of VMs
Easy to use

The elevated licensing costs have a big impact. We are finding different solution to escaoe from a lock-in infrastructure
Centralized view

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix

We started the virtualization when VMware was the best solution. Now there are different solution that achieve the same goals.

Other Software Used

Nutanix Prism

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited in environment that need specific features that only VMware solution can offer in the better way, like the use of NSX.
But if you need the general benefit of virtualization you can choose a different solution.

The Past, maybe the present, but not the future

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server