vSphere - A simple and solid product.
March 16, 2017
vSphere - A simple and solid product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with vSphere
Our school uses vSphere as our main hypervisor. We have used it for the last few years to great success. It is well supported, and the pricing structure is very reasonable in the education sector. It has allowed us to run multiple Virtual Machines on significantly less hardware, have high availability on critical systems, and gives us the ability to spin up new machines in minutes if needed.
- vSphere does a great job of organizing the vast information you have access to. Viewing Hosts, VMs and storage is a simple process.
- Setting up VM templates is fairly painless, and has saved me hours of work building up new servers.
- Setting up High Availability has become a seamless component of our recovery strategy, and vSphere does a great job of making it simple.
- Virtual networking is comprehensive, but not intuitive. I think the process could be simplified and made more user-friendly.
- High Availability means we can get redundancy without having to buy all new servers for each appliance. Huge cost savings.
- I no longer have to buy new hardware every time I want to get a new server. I can also consolidate hardware needs, saving us both on Power and Physical rack space.
- I can spin up a new virtual machine in minutes. This has saved us money by either reducing our support hours used with vendors, or by just saving me time in general.
If a product just works, and the cost isn't terribly different, why switch? VMware has been more reliable, more secure, and doesn't require an OS before the hypervisor runs. It works seamlessly with our backup appliance (Unitrends), and has great training available. Overall, it is just a superior product, and is worth the little extra you may have to pay for it.