vSphere: You pay for what you get (and that's a lot!)
May 12, 2021
vSphere: You pay for what you get (and that's a lot!)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with vSphere
vSphere is currently in use supporting the infrastructure for our server, research, and desktop virtualization platforms. It used across the university system and is the standard for virtualization across the university. It is in use by all faculty, staff, and students. It effectively and immediately solves multiple IT issues like server and application density, hardware vendor lock-in, and substantially reduces application downtime.
- VM management.
- Reducing application downtime.
- Providing fault tolerance for VMs at the OS or hardware layer.
- Reducing excess compute capacity and reducing hardware spend.
- Pricing. vSphere is the most expensive virtualization platform on the market. It's the best, but you pay for it.
- Support. VMware has a great support organization, but the product is so large and complex that sometimes users find bugs before they do.
- Complexity. vSphere used to be extraordinarily simple to implement - over the last decade as features have grown, so has complexity of the solution.
- Have been able to scale VMs under management by 10x with zero staff addition.
- Extremely fast time to deploy new services with easily available scripting options.
- Improved internal customer perception of IT reliability due to superior uptime.
vSphere is superior to any other on-premises hypervisor that I've personally used or heard about. vSphere is the de facto industry standard, receives substantially more partner support and investment, and benefits from a significantly longer maturation period than other products have had. We selected vSphere because it is the most reliable, supportable, and most extensible virtualization platform on the market. Once a company leverages vSphere, adding Kubernetes support, or virtualizing desktops is an easy project.
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