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The best way to manage your VMware vSphere Hosts/Environment
August 07, 2018

The best way to manage your VMware vSphere Hosts/Environment

Ben Liebowitz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server

My company is about 95% virtualized using VMware vSphere. Because of this, we use VMware vCenter Server to manage our environments. We currently have 4 VMware vCenter Server deployments that I support/manage. Each one is for a specific site and we use it to manage the VMware vSphere Hosts at that site/function. With this tool, we can add new vSphere Hosts, deploy virtual machines, manage the host virtual switches, add/remove storage, etc.
  • Centralized Management of your VMware vSphere Hosts
  • Centralized Management of your Distributed Network Switches
  • Deployment and management of VMware vSAN Clusters
  • Creation and management of Storage Clusters
  • vCenter High Availability can be a challenge
  • The learning curve can be high with all the features and functionality.
  • Securing your virtualization environment can be very challenging.
  • vCenter has enabled my company to be able to do more with less.
  • The features such as Virtual Distributed Switches, VMware vSAN, etc have enabled us to centrally manage the networking of our Virtualization Environment as well as save money on our remote office implementations.
  • Training someone with little to know experience with vCenter can be a big task for small teams.
Our desktop team uses Citrix XenApp for remote connectivity of our employees. However, this environment runs on our VMware vSphere hosts which are managed by VMware vCenter Server. :) XenApp was never considered to replace VMware vCenter Server or our vSphere hosts.
Veeam Backup & Replication
As someone that's been using vCenter for about 10 years now, I find it very easy to use to manage my virtualization environment(s). I'm able to see everything from one interface as well as manage my virtual servers.