VMware vCenter Server makes VM management easy
May 25, 2021
VMware vCenter Server makes VM management easy
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware vCenter Server
We have VMware vCenter Server monitoring all of our VMware ESXi servers. It allows our Admins to administrate all the various ESXi servers using a single portal. It also allows us to monitor everything using email alerts, which is not included in VMware ESXi.
- Cloning and managing VMs
- Administration of ESXi servers
- Failover
- Email notifications can be annoying, and initial setup doesn't always work
- Quite expensive
- Ease of VM management
- Notification alerts
- Cloning
- It has sped up deployment of new VMs
- It helps monitor the physical hardware of the hypervisors
- Hyper-V, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Workstation Player (formerly VMware Player) and Oracle VM VirtualBox
VMware vCenter Server's biggest competitor is Microsoft's Hyper-V Server. We prefer VMware vCenter Server because the hypervisor is much less resource intensive. It also gives us a different environment so that a specific Microsoft bug wouldn't take down all of our VMs if the hypervisor was infected and was running Microsoft's Hyper-V Server. VMware vCenter Server has quite a few management options for replication and failover that seem to be more robust for our use case.
Do you think VMware vCenter delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with VMware vCenter's feature set?
Yes
Did VMware vCenter live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of VMware vCenter go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy VMware vCenter again?
Yes