vCenter is the Standard for Enterprise Virtual machine management for a reason
April 09, 2019
vCenter is the Standard for Enterprise Virtual machine management for a reason
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server
We use vCenter Server to manage our entire VMware footprint, which also happens to be 98% of our infrastructure. It makes centrally managing several hosts and numerous servers a breeze, and makes HA and uptime seem simple.
Pros
- High Availability is built into it. As long as you have enough hosts to provide resources, you're not likely to experience a full outage that can be blamed on VMware.
- The ability to spin up, delete and clone servers, all within minutes, defines current data centers.
- The central pane of glass for all of your servers allows one Systems Administrator to handle hundreds of virtual machines efficiently.
Cons
- Everything labeled VMware comes with a price, and vCenter is no different. Some orgs just can't justify the expense.
- Gaining insight into problems without a third party application or VMware add-on to assist can be difficult.
- Cleaner, simpler integration with PowerCLI would go a long way to making it a better overall product.
- We have over 100 servers, and it only takes part of a Sys Admins week to manage them.
- In a larger environment, add-ons like NSX and vRealize could add tremendous efficiencies to both security and resource management.
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