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PROS

VMware vSphere offers high availability, enabling businesses to meet service level agreements without downtime.
Its flexibility allows for easy management of workloads and virtual machines, improving organizational efficiency.
VMware vSphere's scalability supports growth and adapts to changing resource requirements effectively.
With VMotion, VMware vSphere facilitates seamless live migration of virtual machines, optimizing hardware usage and maintenance processes.
Its built-in encryption provides robust security, ensuring compliance with data protection standards.

CONS

VMware vSphere needs improvement in integration capabilities with other applications and metering features.
There are issues with the cost of VMware vSphere, which is considered expensive and increases with frequent releases.
There are challenges with technical support response times, particularly outside the US and Europe.
VMware vSphere requires more development in container management and virtualization graphics.
The licensing process for VMware vSphere is complex and could be simplified.
 

VMware vSphere Pros review quotes

it_user332952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Researcher and Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 30, 2017
I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial.
it_user365892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 25, 2017
The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS.
it_user367830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 25, 2017
vMotion is one of the most useful features, which helps to provide both flexibility and High Availability. With new versions of vSphere and vCenter, it is still improving (e.g., vMotion across vCenter Servers and virtual switches).
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it_user370284 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - System Engineering and Storage at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 24, 2017
Basic hypervisor functions with HA.
it_user373449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 24, 2017
Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features.
Engineer353 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 25, 2016
It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs.
it_user389040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oct 19, 2017
We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important.
it_user694665 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Team Lead / Project Lead IT at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 30, 2017
VMware's high availability which supports our SLA, VMware on the fly features like LUN expansion, P2V and API integrations are the most valuable features.
Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at ThinkON
May 7, 2025
We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running.
it_user817026 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT & Business Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 12, 2018
vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations.
 

VMware vSphere Cons review quotes

it_user332952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Researcher and Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 30, 2017
A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required.
it_user365892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 25, 2017
The Web Client is too slow.
it_user367830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 25, 2017
Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent.
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it_user370284 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - System Engineering and Storage at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 24, 2017
Stability and manageability need improvement.
it_user373449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 24, 2017
I’d like to see a better web console or rather, transform the web console in a real single pane of glass for the whole infrastructure instead of having to go for vRealize Ops Manager.
Engineer353 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 25, 2016
The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity.
it_user389040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oct 19, 2017
They need to further develop graphics virtualization.
it_user694665 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Team Lead / Project Lead IT at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 30, 2017
The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes.
Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at ThinkON
May 7, 2025
Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client.
it_user817026 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT & Business Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 12, 2018
As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality.