vSphere, first step into cloud
May 04, 2021
vSphere, first step into cloud
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Overall Satisfaction with vSphere
vSphere:
The two core components of vSphere are ESXi and vCenter Server. ESXi is the virtualization platform on
which you can create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances. vCenter Server is a service that
acts as a central administrator for ESXi hosts connected to a network.
which you can create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances. vCenter Server is a service that
acts as a central administrator for ESXi hosts connected to a network.
We are a local deployment partner for VMware products in Bangladesh, most of the customers are Banks, governments, Telco, Pharmaceuticals, and other Manufacturing companies.
Banks run their In-house application, HRMS, Card management systems (CMS), Internet Banking services (IBS), Network Monitoring systems (NMS), Authentication Systems, Central Access Management, Mail servers (Exchange, Zimbra), and other financial applications.
Similarly, Telco's runs their Billing, CDR, VAS, IVR, Mail server, Process automation, on-demand resource allocation for Virtual machines to the department, Internal infrastructure applications (Active Directory, File Server, Access Management system, etc).
Corporates run their ERP, Tally, Access Control System, HRMS, Process automation, surveillance systems.
Manufacturing Industries run their Production Management, HRMS, surveillance systems, Billing, Invoicing, Delivery management application on vSphere.
vSphere provides compute resource utilization, allows users to move workload between physical host/storage called vMotion.
It allows users to perform maintenance activity without/minimum downtime to their production environment. Provides easy provisioning of resources to the business-critical applications.
- vMotion that provides seamless movement of Virtual Machines between physical hosts and datastores.
- Ease of Manage: vCenter provides very good management experience to the users.
- It provides hassle free upgrade of versions, which requires good planning.
- Easy to manage datastore, networks, CPU and memory resources.
- It also allows to convert the physical machine and bring it to vSphere Environment with minimum effort.
- Licensing cost is little bit high
- To manage users should have good knowledge on Virtualization technology, which may require addition training. Which costs around $1200 per person.
- Deployment require expert people, which can be very costly depend on business regions.
- It reduces other licensing (Microsoft, Oracle, etc) cost while customer uses affinity rules.
- Once the customer have a good setup, they are good to run the environment with minimum/no downtime.
- In a cluster environment, a hardware failure doesn't impact the production environment. Guest remain powered-on.
vSphere provides more control over the Virtualization environment.
It allows users to have great management User Interface with lots of dynamic features.
VM creation.
Perform vMotion.
Network Management.
Datastore Mangement.
Cluster Management.
Schedule tasks.
Affinity and anti-affinity rules.
Easy to upgrade.
Backup the configuration data which can be restore after a disaster.
Do you think VMware vSphere delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with VMware vSphere's feature set?
Yes
Did VMware vSphere live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of VMware vSphere go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy VMware vSphere again?
Yes