vSphere is an Excellent Virtualization Platform
April 28, 2017

vSphere is an Excellent Virtualization Platform

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with vSphere

It is used company-wide. We run about 95% virtualized. All on vSphere.
  • Runs Windows and Linux VMs.
  • Stable under heavy load.
  • Handles mixed workload well.
  • The Flash web client is horrible.
  • It can be expensive, especially for features like virtualized networking.
  • Very positive impact. We are much more flexible than before.
  • We do not have to buy hardware nearly as often.
  • We have better visibility into user workstations, now they are virtual.
We tried it years ago, and it was horrible. It is much improved now, but we have no compelling reason to evaluate the new versions.
As a virtualization solution, it is easy to use, and mostly just works. Competing solutions have come a long way, and are probably as good or almost as good, but we put in vSphere when they were definitely best of breed.

VMware vSphere Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
9
Management console
5
Live virtual machine backup
9
Live virtual machine migration
9
Hypervisor-level security
9