VMware vCenter Server - The right Virtualization Management Solution
January 25, 2018
VMware vCenter Server - The right Virtualization Management Solution
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server
The product is being used by my clients as well as my organization to quickly deploy, test and manage virtualized environments to support business applications. The critical focus for this solution is the ability to support a primarily-mobile workforce, and meet requirements for quickly implementing computing environments used in application/product development, distribution center deployments, and product testing activities. Of interest, is its ability to enable monitoring of DRS, HA, clustering and vMotion components, at a competitive price point.
- Centralized control for multiple VM hosts simultaneously, including inventory management. This provides easy and effective platform that maximizes support resource time and costs.
- Scalability/capacity management and reporting, which provides organizations with a flexible and powerful function for meeting the dynamic nature of their businesses.
- Plug-in extensibility, which enables technology groups to deploy, manage and monitor server security, backup, and network control features within a single console, further-increasing platform support activities.
- Nothing that applies to the customer base I have supported, other than I have seen and heard from colleagues about problems with ESXi intermittent connection issues, and perhaps the complex nature of plug-in integration.
- From our organization's perspective, the ROI was realized in less than one year, as this allowed us to manage the environments internally and do away with 3rd-party vendors. Our clients have stated similar results, but in 2 examples, they stated that their primary benefit was their ability to quickly manage their computing resources when business changes occurred.
There are similar products in the market, both commercial as well as open source. We only tried open source products such as oVirt and ProxMox, however they did not possess the range of features of this product. In addition, the majority of such options do not provide an easy way to integrate third product tools/plug-ins.