Flexible Virtualization Software
June 17, 2023
Flexible Virtualization Software
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with vSphere
We use vsphere in our organization as our virtualization and infrastructure platform to provide application and infrastructure services to the business. it is an efficient and extremally flexible platform to grow and assign resources as needed to necessary areas. It works very well to provide backup resources to our backup software. and is very adaptable to disaster recovery tools we have.
- vmotion and enabling 100% uptime
- easy vm backup options
- easy snapshot capabilities for software upgrades
- allow dissimilar hardware in a cluster to manage vms. cheap option for clients who have cost issues for some implementations
- virtual TPM for windows 11 is only available in enterprise licensing. its way too much money for something that's a microsoft requirement
- vcenter continues to get more complex to set up and manage. should be a system that should get easier to manage as it gets more robust. they need to re-think its easibility as it has new releases
- need to rethink the use of SD cards for esx hosts. as that is a great cheap and excellent way of building esx hosts for environments
- ransomware protection is second to none. so long as you patch vmware timely
- backups and snapshot protection is amazing and easy to use and saves admin time and money
- to get some advanced option which we would like the license model is way to expensive between standard and enterprise licensing. the featureset does not justify the price increase
- integration to veeam for backups and restores is very easy and efficient
Hyperv is great for limited vm build out, low cost companies, and limited in size organizations. Microsoft has a great product but its just not a robust and scalable as vsphere is. Citrix's platform is great for simple virtualization needs and for special 3D graphics requirements. though vmware does provide very good options now in the last few years. so this is rather moot today.
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