vCenter Configuration Manager Reviews

What I like is the ability to spin up a virtual machine from an image, which makes my backup policy much easier.

The solution is stable and reliable. 

There is always room for improvement. The VxRail configuration is very complicated and a little bit too difficult to guess what the final product is going to be.

The product needs better integration with security tools. It's a feature that you wouldn't need to have for something like Cisco or that type of thing. Something of that magnitude would already be built into the product.

I don't use it myself. I'm just designing the system. My specialty is SIEM and analytics tools. I don't really touch that.

The stability is good. It does what it is meant to do without issues. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

I can't speak about the process involved in the initial setup. It's not really my job to spin it up and make it work, so to speak. I'm just there to use it and help people to configure it. If need be, there are infrastructure people for that.

The pricing goes back to the configuration. Sometimes for weeks, to work, you need to buy your machines - and those are pretty reasonable.

We do work for government entities. We are not really a reseller. We just say, "This is what you need to build. This is what we advise you to build in." Eventually, whichever government organization we are working for is going to decide what they're going to take according to which country it is. I'm the Solutions Architect.

For what is currently being used in our organization, I would rate it an eight out of ten. We're mostly happy with its capabilities. 

My primary use case is for this solution is for server administrator management. This solution is deployed on-premises. 

This is the best solution for management for the server administrator. VMware has been on the market for many years, so they have a lot of solutions. For on-premises, VMware is the best available solution. 

I expect VMware to move to cloud technology soon, so I have no changes to suggest. 

My company has been using this solution for over ten years. 

This solution is stable. Compared to Hyper-V, this solution is a completely stable and independent hypervisor solution. Windows always has a bug, security issues, everything. So Hypervisor tops Hyper-V. 

There are about 500 to 1,000 people in our organization using vCenter. Our environment contains around 200 servers. 

We rarely contact support, but when we do we usually contact the 24-hour support. 

I haven't explored anything regarding installation, but I assume it's a straightforward process. 

I implemented through an in-house team. We have a team of seven people who are VMware certified engineers to manage the servers. 

This product is not cheap. I have a yearly license for vCenter and the license is not cheap. 

I rate vCenter a ten out of ten and recommend it to anyone who is looking into implementing it. However, if you have less than 10 servers, you don't need to go for the vCenter, you can just use the Hyper-V. It depends on the company staff. 

Everything is going to the cloud, so I think this version 6.5 will be the last on-premises version. 

We have some customers in our company, and we deliver the virtual infrastructure throughout the vCenter portal. We get them some resource pools, and they manage the resource pools. In some cases, if you want to have, for example, a resource manager portal, you can use the Cloud Director. But in most cases, we use the vCenter as a resource pool manager. We also use Vcops for operations management, insight manager, and VMware vRealize Log Insight.

vCenter has some good user experience, and the initial setup is straightforward. 

It would be better to integrate this infrastructure with native cloud environments, but we can't do it. We are trying to improve our experience by converting our infrastructure through virtualization on native cloud environments and workloads. It's the most important thing for us. I think that it should be tightly coupled with native cloud environments.

I have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for nearly eight years.

We are not using these products on a very large scale. For example, we use it for 100 servers and not for 1,000 servers. We are using them in a few clusters based on their CPU types. On this scale, we are satisfied with the products. But we don't know if we want to ramp up to larger scales. We don't know if that is suitable or not.

The initial setup was straightforward. It didn't take a long time to deploy this solution.

We used the engineers and assistants. We are training them, and they are doing some VMware courses with some consultants that are experts in these environments. We have an expert consultant that trains the people that work in our environments.

Their licensing costs are high. But I think for the scale that we are using, it's suitable. If you use it on a larger scale with many servers, you have to pay a lot of money for them. I think it's suitable for organizations that don't need expert people that want more money each year or each month because it's a straightforward solution. We prefer to pay for these products that are integrated and straightforward.

We tested OpenStack, but I think it's for more complex environments, and we should pay more money to experts who can maintain this infrastructure.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give vCenter Configuration Manager an eight.

We used the solution to manage the virtual infrastructure in my previous company.

vCenter Configuration Manager is an easy-to-use solution with good performance and cost management.

Users need to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which could be cheaper.

I have some servers running on a disaster recovery site, and I need some tools to migrate those servers to my primary data center.

I have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for six years.

I rate vCenter Configuration Manager a nine out of ten for stability.

vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution.

The solution's initial setup was straightforward, and we deployed it in one working day.

Overall, I rate vCenter Configuration Manager ten out of ten.

The MBRS is very useful. 

It's been very stable and reliable. 

We can scale the solution as needed. 

It is a very easy to set up product.

Their licensing needs to be improved. They used to provide business licenses for smaller businesses. I'm not sure if that is the case any longer. 

I've been using the solution for the last ten years. 

The solution is reliable. It is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

We can scale the solution as needed. It's not a problem.

I've never dealt with technical support in the past. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are to those that need assistance. 

It's not covered. The issue may be the license. 

The initial setup is very simple and straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

I'd rate the process five out of five in terms of implementation. 

The pricing varies. There are different types of licenses you can get, including standard, professional, or professional plus.

I'd rate the cost four out of five in terms of affordability. 

For the data center, for a VM user or workflow, it's excellent software. If you want to use Nutanix or the SimpliVity it is good as well. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

This solution is great for individual storage with servers and installing VMware, vSphere, and vCenter.

It should be easier to use alternate storage.

We have been using this solution since 2012, and we use VMware 7 up to 3d. Additionally, we use software installed on our site.

It is a stable solution with high availability, and we have had no problems. We have two engineers using it. Unfortunately, in our cluster, we do not connect to the Internet because our cluster is offline.

The technical support is useful. You can also find solutions to problems through VMware articles online. If a problem occurs, we use VMware CLI and have a lot of experience with VMware ESXi. We can solve the problem by opening a VMware ticket and have opened only one to two tickets in the last five years.

vCenter has a standard license. As a result, VMware is not expensive compared to all hypervisor prices on the market.

I rate this solution a ten out of ten. There are a lot of licenses, ranging from the standard to the enterprise plus with the operation manager.

vCenter Configuration Manager is used for managing multiple hosts, clusters, data centers, and sites.

The most valuable feature of vCenter Configuration Manager is the automated processes.

SAP CRM could improve by adding additional automation features.

I have been using vCenter Configuration Manager for a few years.

vCenter Configuration Manager is a stable solution.

I have found vCenter Configuration Manager to be scalable.

We have approximately eight clients using the solution.

We have not had any problems with the support.

The initial setup of vCenter Configuration Manager is easy. It took us approximately one day to complete the implementation.

We do the implementation of vCenter Configuration Manager ourselves. We have two people that handle the support for this solution.

The solution comes with three-year support. We have to renew the support annually after the three years are up.

I rate vCenter Configuration Manager a ten out of ten.

vCenter makes it easy to manipulate the clusters between machines so that there is no downtime that we can observe on any machine we host on our VMware.

The stability and reliability are great.

The initial setup is quick and easy.

It's a product that can scale.

The solution could provide even more capacity.

We'd like to see more integration capabilities.

I've been using the solution for almost two years. 

The stability has been very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It never crashes or freezes.

We've never contacted technical support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are.

Previously we dealt with VMware only.

The installation is very simple and straightforward. It is not difficult to get everything up and running. 

The initial implementation takes about one hour.

We have two or three people that can handle deployment and maintenance. 

At this point, we can handle the integration ourselves without the help of an integrator.

We pay a yearly licensing fee.

I do not recall the exact version number we are using.

I would rate the solution at a perfect ten out of ten. I've been very happy with its capabilities.

I would recommend the solution to others. It's quite good.