Item: VMware vSphere
Rating: 10
Author: Pradeep Sharma

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my current organization, I am using vSphere in my project to build servers. We have servers with Linux and Windows platform. Where our critical applications are running. vSphere provide an intface from where we can easily manager all servers in a single window. we can easily scale up or down the resources on servers running under vSphere

Pros and Cons

Adding a physical server in vSphere is very easy
we can build new server using template which make server build very easy
we can task backup using snapshot and restore very easily

the user interface of vSphere can be more user friendly
It should allow multiple vendor to add hardware in UI
It should have performance monitoring of hardware

Return on Investment

vSphere can help in building multiple servers on a hardware
vSphere can help in scale up and down resources on a server in fly without downtime
vSphere can help in takign snapshot of a running server which help in reducing cost of addition backup tool

Support Rating

vSphere allow us to manage servers in an efficient way. we can easily build servers from the predefined templates and we can update templates as well. We can take a backup of a server using a snapshot and restore a snapshot in case of any issue. We can easily add or remove resources from server. we can easily take the console of the server in case the server is down. we can go to the console and troubleshoot the issue.

Key Insights

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

Usability

vSphere UI is very user-friendly that help us to manage it in a very efficient way. the option of taking console or power on/off a server is shown in picture format, which makes it easy to understand to everyone. The logs facility makes activity very easy, we can check the logs and find if there is an issue.

Professional Services

In our project we have 3 vSphere UI one is for production servers, development servers, and test servers. when there is a request to build a new server, we can easily build and provide the respected team on time. User management is also very easy on vSphere. we have linked AD authentication with vSphere so that we not need to do additional user management.

Contract Terms and Pricing Model

The contract terms are very clear and can be updated as per the project requirement. Customer support is also included in the contract which help us to troubleshoot critical issues very easily. Training included in contract will really help the client team to empower and hands-on on the latest updates and enhancements

Likelihood to Recommend

We can have multiple hardware server attached to vSphere and we can easily move the Linux or Window server through vMotion in case of any issue on that particular hardware failure or in case of any performance issue. In case of IBM pSeries server hardware ,we can't use vSphere and build LPARs for AIX and Linux servers.

vSphere Review

Overall Satisfaction with vSphere