VMware vCenter

We use vCenter to manage our VMware ESXi hypervisors in our onpremise datacenter. The product helps to centrally manage our whole virtualization environment. We also use automation to reduce workload for our IT-admins. Features like vMotion help reduce downtime. Additionally, we leverage VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to optimize resource allocation across our clusters. This ensures that our workloads are always running efficiently and helps prevent any potential performance bottlenecks.

• Has reduced number of IT-admins needed for server management by about half. This has freed up IT-admins to other tasks
• IT-admins need less time as centralized tasks can be implemented to all servers VMware environment
• Less downtime to services impacting end-user productivity

Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV

Microsoft 365, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, JitBit Help Desk

We use VMware vCenter to manage a VMware cluster hosting virtual machines in a development lab. We were able to downsize the rack space and lower the count of physical machines by virtualizing. Which lowered costs.

• Shrank footprint from previous infrastructure

Red Hat Virtualization and Proxmox VE

macOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

We use vCenter for our own Private Cloud Platform. This is the key feature for using Dynamic Resource Scheduling and High Availability. This is de orchestrator for deploying new VMs and distributing them across multiple ESXi nodes and clusters. Managing hundreds or thousands VMs from 1 interface and making sure everything runs as smooth as possible. I could not do my Job properly without it..

• Licensing has gone up
• Licensing has become harder to get (even for Cloud Partners)
• With the public cloud, it has a lot of competition

Proxmox VE and Hyper-V

We use VMware vCenter to host all 500+ of our on-prem virtual machines. It dramatically improves efficiency vs. hosting physical servers as we did 15+ years ago. We now run our entire primary datacenter on 21 hosts vs. 500+ physical servers that we ran previously.

• It has dramatically reduced power requirements for our server room.
• It has dramatically reduced the cost of purchasing new server equipment.
• It has been remarkably stable, producing years of activity with no downtime.

Hyper-V

NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software, NetApp SnapCenter Backup Management, Veeam Data Platform

We use VMware vCenter as in two clusters as our VDI solution and another cluster as our server virtualization solution. The VDI part provides virtual machines to our students and employees and is managed in conjunction with Horizon. The server virtualization portion hosts our server infrastructure.

• It's enabled us to replace our end users' physical PCs on a less regular basis

XenServer