vSphere-The hypervisor that sets the standard others are judged by
Updated January 31, 2022

vSphere-The hypervisor that sets the standard others are judged by

John Predmore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with vSphere

We use vSphere exclusively as our hypervisor in our datacenters. We use it for server as well as desktop virtualization. vSphere has allowed us to be extremely flexible with regards to server infrastructure. I can't imagine ever managing an environment without it!
  • vSphere has a very robust feature set. HA, DRS and distributed switching are all capabilities that increase uptime and flexibility.
  • vSphere has a very broad partner ecosystem. This permits users a much greater selection of solutions beyond what VMware offers.
  • Reliability. For me I can reduce it to just that one word.
  • The primary improvement I'd like to see in vSphere is its pricing. I feel it is a bit high compared to the market. But I do believe it is the market leader.
  • I'd like to see the Enterprise edition brought back. We used it before it was removed and I felt it was a very good small enterprise set of features.
  • vSphere allows our business to be more flexible and adapt to changes very quickly.
  • vSphere increases uptime which enables our business to get more done and be available anytime.
  • vSphere enables us to stretch our IT dollars further by increasing the utilization of our datacenters.
vSphere is the most mature and reliable hypervisor I've used. The feature set is not topped in my experience.
I believe vSphere is still the go to hypervisor on the market. I know there are others that have come a long way from when they were introduced, but they still have a ways to go. I believe that in all but the smallest IT environments virtualization makes sense for servers, and vSphere is where you should start.

VMware vSphere Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
10
Management console
10
Live virtual machine backup
10
Live virtual machine migration
10
Hypervisor-level security
10