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VMware ESXi Overview

What is VMware ESXi?

VMware ESXi is a purpose-built bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, ESXi is more efficient than hosted architectures and can effectively partition hardware to increase consolidation ratios and cut costs for our customers.

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VMware ESXi is a purpose-built bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, ESXi is more efficient than hosted architectures and can effectively partition hardware to increase consolidation ratios and cut costs for our customers.


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Broadcom
Year Founded
1991
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@broadcom
59,257 Twitter followers
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www.linkedin.com
61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CA
Phone
+1 800 225-5224
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$27,500,000,000
Description

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

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ayush s.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"VMWARE BEST HYPERVISOR EVER-HONEST REVIEW"
we are using Vmware from very long and we are used it for cloud computing and the best part is there to take snapshot of vm before done any changes...
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sandeep m.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Wrok experience with VMWARE ESXI"
i am using it since 2020 to manage my all virtual machine easily and its best to take snapshot of very big server in very less time and we can migr...
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ANSHUMAN R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"VMware Administrator with extensive experience in managing and maintaining virtualized environment."
It is simplified platform for virtualized environment.
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ayush s.
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technical support head
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

we are using Vmware from very long and we are used it for cloud computing and the best part is there to take snapshot of vm before done any changes and we have got 24/7 support and its ui is very simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

migration between one physical machine to another took too much time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

taking snapshot of whole VM and compatibilty with mostly machine and 24/7 supprt response Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SM
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

i am using it since 2020 to manage my all virtual machine easily and its best to take snapshot of very big server in very less time and we can migrate server in very easy way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

according to me its Ui is littlebit tough to uderstand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

its took snapshot of server before doing any R&D on server whoich is very usefull for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alejandro P.
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Ingeniero de planificación
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

ESXi is the best hypervisor in the market at this moment, work great, is very stable and releiviable. The installation is very intuitive and ease, you don't need to change a lot of parameters to install in your bare metal servers.

The customer support is very helpful, there realy help ones you open a case.

Also vmware ESXi is ease to integrate with a lot of products in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

The license price is one of the point that is more painfull since vmware change the license prices and schema to license your host Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building a private cloud to consolidate all the workloads of the company is the hypervisor chosen to do that is vmware ESXi, is used in all the host Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LS
Engineer - System and Security
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

Take the snapshots of the VM's is the best feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

i think the UI needs to be implemented to user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can deploy multiple VMs with multiple OS and easily manage the VMs by using ESXI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK
GM Business Development
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

ESXi is the best among those products that provide High available virtual environment among its competetion. The level of R&D going into the product by the new Broadcom team is excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

The Clock speed matching wont be acurate while you try to replicate the environemnt through SRM across sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

ESXi help us run a virtual environment with 4 hosts instead of traditional 9 physical hosts. It provide HA that helps us confidently run our Application with very negligible downtime during a failover. Critical environemnts can be run on FT to loose Zero data and no downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

The ease of use of the interface is very friendly alot´s of opcion to virtualize the management of virtual machines is very god. the migration of service is fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

the upgrade of the esxi sometimes fail and it´s necesary re-install the backup and try again Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

have a quick recovery of services generate quick backups for maintenance windows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANSHUMAN R.
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

It is simplified platform for virtualized environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

It has little less automation than Nutanix HCI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing virtualized environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Njabulo M.
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Operational Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

The installation packages is very small and is compatible with many hardware vendors plus it is completely free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

I do not likne tha fact that it requires a vCenter deployment for it to have high-availability features which requires costly licensing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is providing a soltuon for creating a shared manged hosted cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

German F.
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

I like the new 24/7 support, I also like the ease of installing updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

The cost of the subscription service is very high compared to the old plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software has the robustness to handle a large number of virtual servers with multiple connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad N.
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Cyber Security Specialist
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What do you like best about VMware ESXi?

Its compatibility - it support wide range of operating systems and applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware ESXi?

It gets slow if you run multiple applications or OS at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware ESXi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can run multiple operating systems and application on a single computer system using VMware ESXi. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.