VMware vSphere Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score8.4 out of 10

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vSphere is a versatile product that has found widespread use across various industries and organizations. Users rely on vSphere to manage virtual servers and physical servers, eliminating the need for downtime. The ability to perform maintenance on virtual servers on the fly without taking them down has been highly appreciated by users. vSphere also allows for easy provisioning of resources to business-critical applications, ensuring smooth operations. The vMotion feature enables users to move workloads between physical hosts and storage seamlessly, offering flexibility in resource allocation. Additionally, users can easily add more disk space to virtual servers without disrupting their functionality. vSphere has been adopted by banks, governments, telcos, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing companies in Bangladesh for various applications such as in-house applications, HRMS, card management systems, internet banking services, network monitoring systems, authentication systems, mail servers, and financial applications. This product helps lower the total physical server count and maximize computing resources while delivering a top-tier user experience in a cost-effective manner. Its features like compute resource utilization and easy resource provisioning contribute to its value in managing virtualized environments efficiently.

One of the key benefits of vSphere is its ability to enable cloud behaviors like data center migrations, high availability, resource management, and monitoring. Organizations have successfully utilized vSphere for server consolidation, reducing hardware expenses and increasing overall productivity. The automatic failover feature has proven to be valuable by reducing downtime through seamless switching over to another server in case of a complete loss. Moreover, vSphere's capabilities extend beyond server management - it is also used for deploying systems quickly via pre-developed templates and recreating customer issues with test infrastructures. By leveraging vSphere's functionalities, organizations have reported significant cost savings on server hardware and data center space. In industries such as education, manufacturing, and information services, businesses have relied on vSphere to address the common challenge of maximizing computing resources while ensuring scalability and reliability. The product's ability to keep virtual machines organized and manageable in one window has been commended by users, providing easy connectivity and streamlined management. Overall, vSphere serves as a reliable and efficient virtualization technology that enables IT departments to provide robust services, consolidate servers, and optimize resource utilization for various applications and workloads.

VMware vSphere Reviews

14 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services13Computer & Network Security1

VMWare vSphere.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSphere in the organization to run all our essential and nonessential virtual machines needed to keep the doors open. vSphere keeps all of our Virtual machines organized and all in one window. It allows us to easily connect and manage all of our virtual machines in one single place.

Pros

VM Snapshots.
Migrating VMs to other hosts.
Monitoring.

Cons

It is always running into problems when updating.
Extra pricing for extra features.
More plug-ins are needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSphere is well suited for environments that run a big amount of virtual machines that need to keep them all in one place. vSphere allows you to monitor a big amount of Virtual machines. It would be less suitable for environments with a small number of virtual machines that could be monitored individually.

Jorge Ortega

IT in Information Technology at Lea County Electric (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

vSphere is the Gold Standard

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization deploys vSphere in a variety of industries. However, vSphere essentially addresses the same issue within each business. It allows for maximizing computing resources by providing a top tier user computing experience in the most cost effective manner. Rather than continually allocating dollars for hardware refreshes, vSphere provides a central platform that provides the most latest in computing power and efficiency, while being seamless to the end user.This is consistent across all industries and use cases, be it educational, manufacturing, information services, etc.

Pros

Reduce Hardware Cost
Increase Computing Capacity and Efficiency
Reduce Downtime

Cons

Complexity
Initial Installation Cost
Licensing

Likelihood to Recommend

vSphere is THE premiere virtualization platform. It's platform, support, and feature richness surpasses any other competing platforms and is the Gold standard for virtualization. Their research and development department continually innovates and introduces new features as the industry evolves.

M. Randy Harris, Jr.

31Red.com at 31 Red (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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vSphere Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 4, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the vSphere to manage the virtualization infrastructure, we have more than 1000 virtual servers in every environment like production, development, and test. vSphere provides a centralized management platform to manage all virtual machines.

Pros

High Availability
vMotion
Infrastructure virtualization
Easily we can add and remove the virtual machines

Cons

Integration with Kubernetes
It should have hardware monitoring

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using the vSphere to manage the virtualization infrastructure, its provide the centralization platform to manage all virtual machines. Easily we can add and remove the VMs and scale up and done the VMs resources. Its well suite for all type of organization.
We can create the multiple VMs on single physical server and can deploy different application database.

Debopriya Bhattacharya

AIX Administrator in Information Technology at Kyndryl Solution Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

vSphere is great

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Where I work we are a VMware virtual shop, meaning most all of our systems are virtualized. Server virtualization comes with plenty of benefits for a business and it really can improve efficiency when it comes to properly administering server resources like CPU, memory, and storage. Growing your environment by increasing resources on your servers is just a few clicks away using vSphere versus the traditional ordering hardware, scheduling downtime of your hardware servers, and installing resources such as physical memory, CPU power, and storage disks. It is definitely a huge time saver allowing you to focus your time and efforts on other important issues.

Pros

Fast resource provisioning.
Quick virtual server reboots.
Solid performance monitoring.

Cons

Clearer documentation on upgrade paths.
Simpler compatibility matrix.
Simplify SRM.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSPhere is great for large or small organizations. It is easy to scale and add additional ESXi hosts. You can quickly create virtual machines for all types of environments including test, dev, and prod. If you are a small shop, you simply need to have a couple of ESXi hosts to be able to spin up dozens of virtual machines to manage your different apps. If you are a large environment, you can easily create clusters with multiple ESXi hosts in each and easily manage your apps or test, dev, and prod environments in a very organized way. Perhaps less appropriate in scenarios where Microsoft Hyper-V is preferred.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

vSphere one solution to your virtualization problems

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 25, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Vsphere for the following purposes:

Centralized management platform for Virtual Machines for multiple departments.
Manages Esxi hosts and vCenter server.
Hosting multiple servers to use them to create Virtual Machines.
Segment-wise VM distribution for different team members.
As a data center backup and disaster recovery.
Also using it as a private cloud infrastructure.

Pros

Centralized management server to take care of Virtual Machines.
Easy to add and remove a virtual machine.
Detailed workflow for creating new VM(s) and removing older one.

Cons

Sometimes IP addresses for VM aren't displayed in the UI panel for VM even though generated.
No progress on stats on VM turning on.
Limited ability to keep maximum capacity for a single VM in VMware vSphere.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited cases :

Small businesses using VMware vSphere essential kits.
Meets demands of high-performance application and memory-intensive databases.
Multiple OS setups allowed

Less optimal scenarios:

When you need a single VM in vSphere to be extremely resource-intensive.
Not suited for large businesses.
No https website inside the VPN for the company.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

vSphere Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 9, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my current organization, I am using vSphere in my project to build servers. We have servers with Linux and Windows platform. Where our critical applications are running. vSphere provide an intface from where we can easily manager all servers in a single window. we can easily scale up or down the resources on servers running under vSphere

Pros

Adding a physical server in vSphere is very easy
we can build new server using template which make server build very easy
we can task backup using snapshot and restore very easily

Cons

the user interface of vSphere can be more user friendly
It should allow multiple vendor to add hardware in UI
It should have performance monitoring of hardware

Likelihood to Recommend

We can have multiple hardware server attached to vSphere and we can easily move the Linux or Window server through vMotion in case of any issue on that particular hardware failure or in case of any performance issue. In case of IBM pSeries server hardware ,we can't use vSphere and build LPARs for AIX and Linux servers.

Pradeep Sharma

Senior Specialist in Information Technology at LTI Infotech (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

14 years of experience

vSphere, first step into cloud

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 4, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

vSphere:

The two core components of vSphere are ESXi and vCenter Server. ESXi is the virtualization platform on which you can create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances. vCenter Server is a service that acts as a central administrator for ESXi hosts connected to a network.

We are a local deployment partner for VMware products in Bangladesh, most of the customers are Banks, governments, Telco, Pharmaceuticals, and other Manufacturing companies.

Banks run their In-house application, HRMS, Card management systems (CMS), Internet Banking services (IBS), Network Monitoring systems (NMS), Authentication Systems, Central Access Management, Mail servers (Exchange, Zimbra), and other financial applications.

Similarly, Telco's runs their Billing, CDR, VAS, IVR, Mail server, Process automation, on-demand resource allocation for Virtual machines to the department, Internal infrastructure applications (Active Directory, File Server, Access Management system, etc).

Corporates run their ERP, Tally, Access Control System, HRMS, Process automation, surveillance systems.

Manufacturing Industries run their Production Management, HRMS, surveillance systems, Billing, Invoicing, Delivery management application on vSphere.

vSphere provides compute resource utilization, allows users to move workload between physical host/storage called vMotion.

It allows users to perform maintenance activity without/minimum downtime to their production environment. Provides easy provisioning of resources to the business-critical applications.

Pros

vMotion that provides seamless movement of Virtual Machines between physical hosts and datastores.
Ease of Manage: vCenter provides very good management experience to the users.
It provides hassle free upgrade of versions, which requires good planning.
Easy to manage datastore, networks, CPU and memory resources.
It also allows to convert the physical machine and bring it to vSphere Environment with minimum effort.

Cons

Licensing cost is little bit high
To manage users should have good knowledge on Virtualization technology, which may require addition training. Which costs around $1200 per person.
Deployment require expert people, which can be very costly depend on business regions.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good [about vSphere]:

1. Easy to manage

2. Easy provisioning Virtual Machines.

3. Allows to create clone, export the VMs.

4. Allows to move between hosts even in some cases it allows to move machines between different data-center.

5. Allows hot add on CPU, Memory.

6. Advanced Network Management features.

Bad [about vSphere]:

1. Licensing Costs are high.

2. Training Costs are high.

3. Professional deployment costs also high.

Md Tanjil Islam Bappi

Senior Manager in Information Technology at Omega Exim limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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Excellent Virtualization Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

vSphere is the best experience in virtualization so far. The interface is straightforward and informative. The web client is useful when I'm not near my main system for responding to emergencies while not at work. Scheduling tasks and alarms, as well as spinning up new instances and snapshots are straight forward.

Pros

vSphere is dependable.
It will run a large variety of workloads, and operating systems without issue.
Administrative tasks are simple to find and configure.

Cons

The recurring costs of licensing.
The user interface is sometimes slow.
Initial setup can be difficult

Likelihood to Recommend

They have are a proven leader in the virtualization world with all the features you can ever need. It can be scaled to pretty much any size. The cost can be high, so may not be suitable for small companies.

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

vSphere is great for test labs!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 12, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use vSphere to connect to my VM host that contains a number of virtual machines for our test environment. vSphere allows me to quickly attach to my VM host to create virtual machines that I run ransomware simulations against. I have a number of servers and workstations and I can edit, delete or reconfigure those VMs quickly. In addition to providing access to my virtual machines in the test environment, I can also use vSphere to gain important information about my host including resource availability, data stores, and network configuration.

Pros

When a VM loses network connectivity and a connection be accessed through other online remote desktop control applications, you can access it from the local network through vSphere.
Easily create and modify virtual machines.
Provides a robust interface to monitor host resources.

Cons

Would be nice if events could generate alerts that would be emailed to a administrator

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great for test labs and creating honey pots or any scenario were you will be running tests and reverting back to a base image regularly.

Chris Hartwig

Security Analyst in Information Technology at WatchPoint Data (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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vSphere 6.5 Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 26, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

vSphere is used across our whole organization by the IT department. vSphere allows us to run multiple virtual servers on one single physical server, which makes server management very easy. The ability to take snapshots of virtual machines and roll back at any given time when faced with a problem is simply amazing.

Pros

Taking Snapshots of VMs and roll back to the previous state when faced with a problem.
Template creation - Once you have that perfect template you can easily create new VMs. Very useful feature.
VMotion - Being able to perform live migrations of a virtual machine from one physical server to another, without any downtime.

Cons

vSphere crushes the competition in all aspects, the only negative thing is the license price. Very expensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSphere is simply the best solution to manage VMs. It has the most features and is the most reliable. If your company is currently looking at virtualization solutions go ahead and recommend them VMWare. Microsoft Hyper-V might be much cheaper, but they do not have all the bells and whistles VMWare has. VMWare is always the one innovating with new features, while Microsoft just copies them. VMotion alone is worth its price tag, made our company save tons of money and time.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience