Item: vSphere
Rating: 10
Author: Daniel Moraes Silva,LPIC2,MBA

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSphere in our organization as the virtualization solution as such: standalone, cluster, and cloud infrastructure servers running using vSphere solution. The Vsphere solution solved all our problems related to scalability and reliability. The vMotion feature in my opinion is the 'best one' where you can easily move your VM between ESXi without restarting the server.

Pros and Cons

Cloud
Standalone
Clustering

Disk mapping for VCS solution.
Oracle RAC structure.
VM backups.

Return on Investment

Scalability
Reliability
Return of investment.

Support Rating

We didn't have any troubles regarding VMWare support because at all times they're always ready to understand our issues and propose the best and most appropriate solution. The security patches solution is accordingly to the business needs. Another scenario is their knowledge base where they're many articles that help you in order to solve something which is wrong.

Key Insights

Do you think vSphere delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with vSphere's feature set?

Yes

Did vSphere live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of vSphere go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy vSphere again?

Yes

Usability

The vSphere is very easy to use and manage. The administration console is very rich and very well organized. You can do almost everything without using some SSH console session. Summarizing: Using vSphere Web Interface you just use a few clicks in order to do what you need as such: vMotion, create some reports, format some disks, etc.

Professional Services

As I said earlier, they're always ready to understand our issues and propose the best and most appropriate solution for issues all the time. The security patches solution is accordingly to the business needs. Another scenario is their Knowledge Base where
they're many articles that help you in order to solve something which
is wrong.

Contract Terms and Pricing Model

Likelihood to Recommend

We can list some scenarios where vSphere solutions work very well as such: WMS solutions, Tomcat portals, Transportation solutions, cloud computing deploys, LDAP/Tacacs authentication solutions, and radius solutions. A scenario where vSphere needs some improvement - OracleRAC solution, where this one does not work as desired in our point of view.

vSphere review

Overall Satisfaction with vSphere