VMware vSphere Reviews

We use it for the virtualization of server infrastructure.

It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling.

They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users. 

I am using version 6.7, and it would be good if it has support for SaaS storage. They might already have this feature in the latest version 7.1.

We have been using this solution in our company for 10 years.

It is extremely stable.

It is very scalable. Its usage depends on each customer. We have small, medium, and large customers. 

As a company, we are not a big consumer of VMware solutions. We do VMware deployments in other companies. We sell it to other companies, and we have a partnership with VMware. 

Based on my experience, they are very good. Their support used to be best, but it also depends on the number of subscriptions for each contract. Generally, their process is very good.

It is easy.

I'm not a pricing or budgeting person, but I know that its price is a little bit high, and they can consider reviewing it. Its price is probably the highest in this domain.

I personally do not recommend Hyper-V based on my experience, but I can recommend others to also look at Proxmox. There is also a solution from IBM. They are, for sure, very good contenders.

I would rate VMware vSphere a nine out of 10. It satisfies our needs.

The primary use case for vSphere is that it can be used to deploy space applications to consolidate environments. You can be in production or in a data center, and you want each application to perform or to run only on a particular server. To create that consolidation and that separation of services, you could deploy vSphere.

Nowadays, servers are very robust. You can have a server of 18 cores and a server of 75 terabytes or 100 terabytes. That's a huge investment for a company, and you cannot just deploy a single application. So, with vSphere it will permit you to deploy the hypervessel on that server and later on add servers little by little that can meet your needs.

In terms of the usability, it's user-friendly; VMware vSphere is much simpler as compared to Oracle. Even a French-speaking citizen or foreigner can easily implement it.

It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well.

It would be good if VMware vSphere could permit hard partitioning. If a company wants to purchase very expensive applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite or Oracle Fusion and they have vSphere technology implemented in their data center, it will cost them a lot because it has a very heavy, strong, or robust server that has strong processing capacity. The license will not cost the license of vSphere, the virtual server created by vSphere. The license will be the license for the whole server, so it creates a lot of challenges.

If it's possible for virtual hard partitioning to be implemented so that those who are using very sophisticated applications like E-Business Suite and other applications that require licensing on a processor, a virtual processor, could benefit from it, then it would be great. That is, integration with more expensive platforms is needed.

It would be nice to pay once for an unlimited license. If you decide to quit later on, you could pay the support charges.

I've been using VMware vSphere for about two years.

It's much more stable than other products.

It's very scalable because you can create a cluster. You can add a cluster and add another server in the nodes or in the cluster which you have created.

It's user-friendly, and it's really easy for a beginner to install. Now, there are appliances that you can deploy directly. So, I think it's very easy compared to that of others in the market. I have deployed it in large environments and even a test environment.

We implemented it ourselves.

I think the licensing cost depends on the number of users.

VMware vSphere is user-friendly and easy to implement, so I will recommend it. I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We are using this solution for a lot of proposes, such as in production environments.

The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years.

The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure.

I have found the solution scalable.

We have approximately 500 people using the solution in my organization.

We have been satisfied with the technical support.

We have used another solution previously.

The installation is straightforward and is easy to manage. It took approximately two hours to install.

We did the implementation of the VMware vSphere and we have a team of 15 that does the implementation and maintenance of the solution. The team consists of managers and heads of departments.

There is a standard license required for this solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

We use VMware vSphere for our windows server and other virtual machines.

No need to upgrade the hardware for individual machines, easily to assign more resources to virtual machines when desired.

I like that it's like a distributed resource scheduler, the workload can be balanced automatically. Also you can use vMotion as well to manually move the virtual machines around different physical hosts. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy.

The initial setup could be better. Follow the instruction you can set it up, but it's not very straightforward, and you need some storage and network knowledge to get the better understanding.

I have been using VMware vSphere for over ten years.

It's stable. These have patches regularly, and we apply the critical patch.

Scalability is fine. We don't have too many virtual machines because we're moving to the cloud slowly. That's why we don't have an issue with that.

I think VMware support is excellent. They have the highest one, and I'll rate them nine out of ten. I'm still satisfied with their support.

The initial setup is a little complex because of the infrastructure. It's not related to just the one physical server, you need design the storage and networks. There are three different areas.

For my friend with stock in virtualization, I think maybe they can try the Cloud. That may be easier, and they don't need to stay on-premises.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give VMware vSphere a nine.

It's a VDI and also for virtualized machines. We use it for digitized databases.

It made provisioning servers and application a lot easier and faster

vVols, vMotion, and vSphere have availability. It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well.

I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved.

I would like to see more active replication in the next release.

3 years

It's very stable. There are some bumps or unintended behavior from time to time, but it has not really been an issue.

It is a scalable solution.

Technical support is not that great, and it's not that accessible.

Oracle Virtualizacion. Was not so user friendly and lacking a lot of features

The initial setup was extremely straightforward.

in-house

The pricing is a little bit on the expensive side, and the licensing is on a yearly basis.

We evaluated a lot of options like Microsoft Hyper-V and Proxmox, and Red Hat Virtualization

I would totally recommend VMware vSphere even though I have some complaints about it. It's one of the great technologies available right now. I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use this solution for financial full disclosure, end-user computing, and for private cloud.

Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution. 

The connectivity to the pools from the large amount of memory to the CPU is also very good.

Also, the stability that it provides from the large system to the virtual machine is good.

I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them.

I have been using VMware vSphere for a couple of years.

The stability of this solution is one of the most valuable features. It's a very stable product.

It's a very scalable solution. Every release includes scalability.

We have 200 to 300 customers who are using it and we have plans to increase our usage.

Technical support is moderate.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The time it takes for deployment depends on the environment and the design of it.

We need a team of five technicians to maintain this solution.

It's a monthly subscription model.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.

It's the main virtualization solution for our clients.

The HA and DRS are very valuable.

It is a very stable solution.

Integration with other environments was simple to achieve.

The initial setup is simple even for complex environments. The documentation for implementation is very good.

VMware vSphere has great technical support.

The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution.

If we have extensive documentation that is complete and helps us understand all the features, it will help us to try to propose the solution itself and try to show the value of going with it.

I've been using VMware vSphere for more than twenty years.

When compared to the stability of other solutions, VMware vSphere is by far the most favorable.

Compared to Microsoft's technical support, it's by far the best experience that we've had.

The initial setup is very simple. Even for more complex environments, it's really pretty simple. The available documentation is complete, which helps specialists create more complex solutions in VMware.

This is not the cheapest solution, but when you consider the stability of VMware vSphere, it is a great solution.

My clients evaluated Hyper-V because they use a Microsoft environment.

I recommend that they get familiar with the technology and also with the documentation for implementation. It's really complete. I would also recommend that they obtain the training available online, which is really good.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this solution at ten.

We use the solution mainly for testing our internal systems. We are providing support and solution for clients and we have to test the solutions.

The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere.

I have been using the solution for 10 years.

The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs.

This solution can scale to extremely large environments, it is very scalable. 

We are a company of 35 people and we are using this solution. We have a lot of customers that we are providing consulting and support for VMware.

Customer support is one of the best in the market.

The installation is straightforward and simple because we learned how to do it a long time ago. Even a new user could find it easy.

The licensing price is fair compared to other similar solutions.

When comparing this solution with the others, it is very similar or a bit better.

I rate VMware vSphere a nine out of ten.