Virtual life
March 16, 2018
Virtual life
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with vSphere
vSphere is being used primarily by the system administrators in the information technology department to manage all virtual workstations, virtual servers and the resources assigned to them. Allows for ease of management of all of our servers in our infrastructure. Also provides a failover system for maintaining a high level of uptime in the event of a host going down.
- VMware vCenter Server, which manages vSphere environments. Can be used to monitor virtual machine environment - hosts and VMs.
- VMware vSphere Client, which is used to install and manage virtual machines. Great way to centrally manage all servers and workstations.
- VMware VMFS, the file system component from VMware.
- Pricing. It can get costly with the licensing depending on the size of your environment.
- Better compatibility. Some applications do not run as well on a virtual machine as they do on a physical box.
- Learning curve for staff to be able to be fully functional and troubleshoot in vsphere environment.
- Saves time and money by having the management centralized and can share hardware resources.
- Provides fault tolerance and high availability minimizing downtime.
- Overall, all eggs in one basket. If there is a serious problem with the environment, all servers are down.
No other products were evaluated. vSphere is the leader in the industry and a known good solution. It is widely used across multiple verticals and has good support from vendor as well as user groups. IT personnel whether existing or new hires are almost always familiar with the product and have experience using it.