VMware vCenter leads the pack in hypervisor technology
June 30, 2017
VMware vCenter leads the pack in hypervisor technology
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server
As an IT firm, we deploy VMware both in-house and for many clients to consolidate hardware and reduce costs. Virtual servers on one more powerful host is far more cost efficient than multiple smaller servers. It takes up less space on premises and the hardware you purchase for a VMware host is far more reliable than what you would buy for smaller individual servers. Larger servers as VMware host also have the advantage of redundancy in hardware so you almost never have everything go down.
- Consolidation of hardware resources.
- Hardware redundancy.
- Cost effective deployment of new servers.
- The web UI leaves something to be desired, but this is being addressed in vCenter 6.5 and beyond.
- Some hardware settings can be a bit obtuse.
- VMware has drastically reduced the work required in deploying new servers.
- Deploying a whole new physical machine could take 4-8 hours, but creating a virtual machine on a vCenter server can be done in less than 1 hour.
It feels like other hypervisors are either trying to catch up to VMware or filling a smaller niche that VMware may be too broad to fill. VMware continues to bring the newest features and improvements and it's hard to compare any other hypervisor as long as VMware continues to lead the pack.