VMotion is the bomb
April 12, 2018

VMotion is the bomb

Michael Ellerbeck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server

Vmware vCenter Server is the bulletproof standard for managing our VM environment. It's extremely powerful, providing features like vMotion, VMware High Availability, Update Manager and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler). You haven't lived until you have vmotioned a VM from one ESXi host to another! It moves magically, hardly dropping a ping.

Pros

  • Centralized management of your VMs
  • One pane of glass
  • Virtual appliance vCenter is easy to install and update

Cons

  • I'm not a big fan of the push towards HTML5 only vSpehere client
  • Sometimes you have crashing or timeouts
  • As with all complex software you can get complex errors and bugs can be interesting to get to the root of
  • Simplified VM management
  • One pane of glass to many parts of the environment (backup, SAN etc..)
  • VMotion is the bomb
If you need a great hypervisor manager then VMware vCenter Server is the one for you. Easy to install, easy to use, powerful. It really is good stuff. With plugin extensibility you are able to manage various things like your storage area network (nimble, equallogic etc...) you can also install plugins for backup (veeam) or site recovery (zerto). It really is very powerful

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