VMware vCenter is the only Virtual Infrastructure You Need!
November 13, 2018

VMware vCenter is the only Virtual Infrastructure You Need!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server

Our department uses vCenter to provide VMs within the unit to host our infrastructure and critical applications. It solves issues in terms of cost, rack space, energy costs, and the list goes on. In addition, our university as a whole uses vCenter to supply VMs for security initiatives and run critical applications with their VMware environment as well.
  • Ease of use in creating new virtual machines
  • Easily update ESXi hosts and VMware tools across the environment
  • Works will with storage plugins, and other metric plugins that are useful for our department.
  • Easier upgrade paths to the newest versions
  • More integration with other sister products (SRM, vSphere Replication, etc.)
  • Saved tons of money on consolidating rack space by virtualizing physical servers to virtual machines
  • Saved money on electrical bills with less power consumption since there is a less physical footprint inside the rack space
  • Saved money on not having to have more employees to manage more hardware.
VMware is much easier to use, much easier to configure, and does not rely on having another OS layer like windows to run off of. This was they key for us because whenever we had to update windows we would have to migrate everything off just to apply some simple updates. VCenter is much more efficient.
vCenter is a critical component when managing multiple hosts to initiate DRS and HA. In addition vCenter is the command center to also implement other helpful products for disaster recovery like SRM and vSphere Replication.