# VMware vSphere Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Server Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 761 ## About VMware vSphere VMware vSphere with VCF 9.1 is the enterprise workload engine that modernizes compute infrastructure with a future-ready, scalable infrastructure and simplified management that enables organizations to extract maximum value from their current server investments and hardware footprint, rather than requiring a total refresh. vSphere provides a powerful foundation for modern, AI and traditional workloads, while enabling intrinsic security out-of-the-box. ## VMware vSphere Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find VMware vSphere **extremely intuitive and easy to use** , enhancing daily operational efficiency in their virtual environments. (69 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive setup and management** of VMware vSphere, making virtualization efficient and user-friendly. (57 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use and robust functionality** of VMware vSphere, enhancing their daily administrative tasks. (30 reviews) - Users value the **unmatched efficiency and manageability** of VMware vSphere for server virtualization and resource optimization. (24 reviews) - Users praise the **high reliability** of VMware vSphere, highlighting its exceptional uptime and automated failover capabilities. (19 reviews) - Resource Management (18 reviews) - Stability (18 reviews) - Setup Ease (15 reviews) - User Interface (14 reviews) - Integrations (13 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **licensing costs excessively high** , particularly affecting small businesses trying to adopt vSphere. (56 reviews) - Users dislike the **licensing direction** of VMware vSphere, feeling pressured to adapt to recent changes or risk obsolescence. (31 reviews) - Users are concerned about the **high licensing costs** associated with VMware vSphere, leading to budget constraints. (29 reviews) - Users are frustrated with the **constant cost increases** of VMware vSphere, adversely affecting their investment and budgeting. (12 reviews) - Users express concerns about the **pricing issues** of VMware vSphere, especially following Broadcom's acquisition. (12 reviews) - Update Issues (12 reviews) - Upgrade Issues (11 reviews) - Pricing Complexity (10 reviews) - UX Improvement (10 reviews) - Users are frustrated with the **poor customer support** from VMware vSphere, impacting their experience and satisfaction. (9 reviews) ## VMware vSphere Reviews ### 1. Manager, IT Global Infrastructure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** We like the clustering capability of VMware vSphere **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** It can be very expensive to deploy and manage **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Offers the ability to manage our global 2000 VM infrastructure ### 2. VMware makes my job easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Provides a very robust and should infracture. Very easy to implement and use. Less after hours work for admins, **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** There is nothing negative for me to add. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lower TCO, Increased uptime of systems and less after hours calls. ### 3. Good product, pricing and support could improve **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Easy to use and manage assets, simple UI for most tasks **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Not a lot of support when working in specific cases **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use all our hardware for a lot of VMs with a small amount of resources ### 4. VMware vSphere server virtualization survey OR **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Perhaps one of the most important things is to virtualize. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The fact that VMware went to Broadcom and how complex and complicated licensing and obtaining support has become **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to have a smaller footprint. ### 5. The best platform to run virtual machines, although it is expensive. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Easy to use, powerful, hardware independent although VSAN has some requirements, **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Licensing, perpetual licenses were discontinued. Also, patching is a lengthy process with VxRail. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running multiple virtual machines, able to deploy them quickly using templates. ### 6. Easier than expected **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** GUI with all controls and that it is intuitive. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** When I used it, it needed to be installed on a windows machine. That is no longer the case. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce the amount of of servers. ### 7. VMware vSphere good old reliable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The product has been around for a long time, leader in the hypervisor, huge community support. More features than the competition. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The product itself, must be purchased as a bundle. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidating server workload ### 8. Been using it for 10+ years and love the functionality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** All the functionality when it comes to virtual environments in general. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The price increase was rough just like it was on mostly everyone. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to have lots of VMs on a single host. ### 9. VMUG2025 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Ease of deploying virtual machines nd scaling **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Patch and certificate management is difficult **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefit is single pane of management ### 10. An excellent UI with some hidden depths **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff G. | Systems and Database Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I like being able to see the load on the different hosts so I can easily balance them manually. I also like being able to find and see the settings of the hosts and vms as well. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The major issue I have ran into with vSphere is remembering that I am not dealing with physical servers and physical objects (example: networking). This has made the issue of trying to track down performance issues, in regards to SAN access a bit of a problem. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of having 100 physical servers with individual maintenance issues, I can have 100 virtual ones that each can serve whatever service I need them to. ### 11. Greeaat until Broadcom **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Very robust works well when using from one host **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** the NEW COST is just not workable anymore **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving server edxpanse ### 12. Good virtual management platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Ease of use. API intergration with other products. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Don't like the update technology. VSAN and NSX . **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduced physical inventory. ### 13. Best on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Simple and reliable with solid support level **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Really nothing, I have been using it for 25 years and it is great **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hardware independence and software defined data centers ### 14. Stabe environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It is very stable and provides great uptime. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** It can be very complex and difficult to work with. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us provide great uptime and stability for our servers. ### 15. Dependable Infrastructure Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan S. | Principal Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** One of the things I like the most about vSphere is the flexibility. I can deploy across any number of hardware configurations, and even create mixes (of hardware) in my environment to suit business needs. That flexibility has allowed me to deploy workloads with ease, and significantly faster than I would have pre-virtualization for certain. The consistency in the product lines is another thing I really appreciate. I know when I sit at a console what I expect to find, where to find things, and how to accomplish my tasks without having to go to a new training class for every feature update or tool. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** As always, the thing that is the hardest to contend with as a customer is the licensing costs and the changes in licensing models. I've been through many iterations of both with vmware throught the years and while I recognize the licensing is supporting the brains that do make my life easier...the constant changes and challenges with licensing, especially with the switch in ownership to Broadcom have been disappointing. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vmware solves my problem of bringing strong and flexible computing power to a resource (money) constrained environment. I'm able to do more with less and still produce results. ### 16. The reliable virtualization **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** easy of use on production in a few time lot of documentation and case **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** new licensing model selective hardware support **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business continuity (fault tolerance of server without down) Hardware and resource optimization ### 17. VMware vSphere-Single point to manage your ESXi Hosts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maduranga C. | Assistant Manager-Cloud & Virtualization, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** VMware vSphere is easy to deploy & it helps to manage all centrally ESXi hosts within the IT infrastructure. It provides high availability for the servers as well as disaster recovery capabilities.it is very easy to integrate the ESXi host. with advanced host security features like, Lockdown mode and other security profile features. Host smart card authentication. vSphere Authentication Proxy. UEFI Secure Boot. Trusted Platform Module (TPM). VMware vSphere Trust Authority Secure ESXi Configuration and configuration sealing provide better security for your infrastructure. It is much easier to scalable your environment using vSphere compared to the traditional physical server environment as well as performance optimization. Overall Availability, Scalability, Optimization, and Manageability provide great benefits. As well as customer support is very remarkable when issues occur they are quickly responding to the tickets that we are submitted through our support portals. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** VMware vSphere licensing cost is difficult for small businesses to afford. Technical engineers who are new to VMware vSphere it somewhat difficult to learn to get experience in Install, configuring & manage the vSphere **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware vSphere solves the problem of central management of virtual servers compared to the traditional physical server infrastructure. compared to the traditional physical server environment it requires less amount of rack space as well as power & cooling. Resource optimization is much easier. Features like vMotion and high availability provide 99.99% infrastructure uptime for the organization. scalability is also much easier when using VMware vSphere ### 18. Optimizing Virtualization with VMware vSphere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Of everything I find the most useful in VMware vSphere, what I find the most useful is a good performance and versatility when it comes to managing a virtualized environment in which the management of resources, growth and the management of virtual machines is highly effective. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** VMware vSphere has one disadvantage just as it is a best bet against its competitor, however, this is where vSphere stands apart. This is the reason why VMware vSphere is said to be of a disadvantage in the presented system; which in turns leads to the additional initial setup and configuration difficulties for those who either have no prior basic knowledge of virtualization tools or does not possess an engineering degree in IT for a least of a few years of practice. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the use of VMware vSphere, challenges that face organizations such as wastage on resources and server outages are easily addressed because servers can be virtualized. This really helps us minimizes on hardware expenses and confirm that our systems are on line and running – which is vital for agency business. ### 19. The flagship Datacentre Virtualisation product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter C. | Technical Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** vSphere has been the benchmark of virtualisation products since I can remember. vSphere is a product that "just works" within an on-premise datacentre environment. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Removal of the "fat" client and force usage of the web client was a particular grievance. Useability of the web client has imporved significantly in recent years, however it still falls slightly short. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned, vSpehere tends to be a product that just works. It provides a reliable backbone for which to build a virtual datacentre. Various features cross vCentre vMotion, Fault Tolerance, vSAN, vVols, advancements in DRS and SDRS build trust from an admin (and user) perspective while providing the necessary features required in a modern datacentre. ### 20. VMware vSphere is the best virtualization platform currently on the market **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse F. | Senior System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** VMware vSphere is easy to deploy, use, and manage. I've been working with it since version 4.0 and have several certifications. The installation is very easy if you follow the hardware support guide and make sure to use supported hardware. Customer support is generally pretty good, but can be hit or miss depending on the engineering support you get assigned. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The biggest downside of VMware vSphere is Broadcom's purchase of the company. The support has gotten both worse and much more expensive. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing VMware vSphere to not have an entire datacenter full of physical servers. They have been the industry standard for virtualization for years for a good reason. ### 21. Vmwae feedback **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moshe A. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Easy to manage true VC, you have all what need for infrastructure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Price is very high, the VC use a lot of resources **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can manage a lot of servers in virtualistion ### 22. vSphere friendly usage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** strong technically as we are using it for 15 years **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** patching and upgrades multiple components to upgrade **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** combining to run both vm's and containes ### 23. It just works. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** A lot of support until Broadcom purchased. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Broadcom made getting support and even logging in horrible . **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good virtulzation product used since the beginning. ### 24. vSphere admin for MSPs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Simple but powerful server virtualization **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Licensing model is no longer perpetual. High cost. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Central administration of servers running VM operating systems and virtual appliances. ### 25. Good times **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** For the most part it does exactly what you want it to do. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Cost is currently uncertain. ! **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Redundancy and fault tolerance. ! ### 26. vSphere Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I find that vSphere does it's job very well. We've made heavy use of templates and scripting to make deploying new VM's very quick and easy. Using technologies like vVols makes storage in vSphere easy to track and manage. Also, given app admin console access which allows them to get to the consoles of their boxes if something is wrong so they aren't waiting on VI admins to trouble shoot their boxes. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Other than cost currently, I've not got very many downsides with vSphere to date. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gives us the ability to quickly deploy new VM's of custom size and recover resources from obsolete VM's just as quickly. This means we aren't waiting on quotes or hardware for new server projects, and we are able to consolidate down a lot of virtual servers on to a few hardware boxes and save expenses with recurring support and replacement. ### 27. vSphere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Virtualizes servers and I am most familiar with this. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Need virtualization for other platforms like NSX networking. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Server Virtualization & Mgmt. ### 28. Great hypervisor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The business standard for virtualization **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Core licensing is not optimal with new cpus **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securly delivering the base for your private cloud ### 29. Virtual **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** All encompassing solution. Monitoring, automation, stable, storage, etc **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Cost has been a recent concern as well as partner engagement **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidating workloads ### 30. Amazing Product Suite **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** VMware vSphere has become an integral part of our day to day work It helps to easily create and manage multiple virtual machines because of VMWare vSphere we able easily create virtual machines and test the software which we require in our day to day work. The istallation on a Server is very easy and smooth. The best part what I like the most is that with the new version of vSphere we don't have to installl the client software to manage it, one can do through a web interface. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** As of now don't have any specific thing which i can point which makes me dislike it. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in Cost saving as we can use the vSphere application to all the users in the organisation and assign them Virtual machines instead of Physical machines ### 31. VMware Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Flexibility and Scalability is good in it **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Licences prices are going high and need to looked at **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing the worklaod ### 32. Vsphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It is very user friendly and easy to use **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** there is nothing to be dislike.very user frindly **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is nothing ### 33. Very powerful products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fatlum M. | System Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Creating vm in faster way work faster and smother **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Nothing all is done by perfect solutions **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Support is very fast ### 34. vSphere in Edu **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Everything is accessible in one, easy to use UI. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Unfortunately, the new pricing model after the Broadcom integration. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** VM management is a big plus for smaller environments. ### 35. VSphere review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Simple to administer yet robust and quite secure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Not applicable not applicable not applicable **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtualization and centralized management/monitoring ### 36. VMware vSphere: Efficiency and Performance in Virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhadip P. | Technical Support Engineer 1, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** There are several things to like about such as High Availability and Fault Tolerance with echance security including encyrption,secure and role based access control also the intergation and compability is unmatched. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The cost can be quiet expensive specially for small business. Vsphere integrates well with other Vmware Products but compatiblity with third party solution can sometime be limited or require additional configurations. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think Vsphere allows easily to scale the IT infrastructure to meet changing demands with flixiblity supports growth and helps mange varying workloads. Its inbuild security features such as encyption ,seure boot and role based control is unmatched and industry leading. ### 37. vSphere review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** vSphere is efficient, robust and trusted. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The cost going up, which makes it complicated to justify. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtualization ### 38. Virtualization Leader **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Ease of Use, Features, capabilities, support **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Price, cost and contract renewal challenges **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of deployment and support ### 39. My VMware Likes and Dislikes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I like VMware vSphere for its robust virtualization capabilities, allowing efficient resource utilization and easy management of virtual machines. Its high availability, fault tolerance, and live migration features enhance uptime and reliability. vSphere’s ability to automate tasks and integrate with various third-party tools streamlines IT operations. Additionally, its scalability supports growing infrastructure needs, while the centralized management console simplifies oversight. The enhanced security and performance optimization tools make it a comprehensive solution for modern IT environments **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** One downside of VMware vSphere is its high licensing and support costs, which can be prohibitive for smaller organizations. The complexity of initial setup and configuration can also be challenging for teams without specialized expertise. Additionally, while vSphere is feature-rich, some functionalities are only available in higher-tier licenses, limiting flexibility for those on a budget. Frequent updates and patches, while necessary for security, can sometimes introduce compatibility issues or require significant downtime for upgrades. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving on energy, server space, server hardware cost ### 40. Cadillac of virtual enterprise solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Agile in performance, architecture, and management. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The Broadcom integration aspect and license/support revamping effort. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Architecture flexibility ### 41. Best hypervisor out **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Features, support, capabilities, stability **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Price, products that become no longer supported **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maximize server resources ### 42. vSphere and only vSphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maksym R. | Senior VMware Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I have been working with VMware vSphere for six years. I was positively surprised by the stability and diversity of vSphere options: vMotion, HA, DRS and DVS. Additionally, Fault Tolerance and AutoDeploy. Those are very cool features. vSphere works best with Aria Operations and vSAN. I also want to highlight the ease of deploying vCenter and ESXi hosts. In case you need anything, customer support is always ready to assist with troubleshooting. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** There's not too much to say about dislikes. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSphere makes life easier with HCI at all. Saving costs and optimizes workloads. ### 43. best Hypervisor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilario M. | Information Technology Infrastructure Manager, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** overall easy usage, plenty of knowledge from vendor and partner, many features for every need, **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** new license and price model after Broadcom acquisition **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation of physical servers in virtual environment, high availability of infrastructure ### 44. Vmware Vsphere remains at the top **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johanna E. | Ingeniera Preventa, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It is the best virtualization software and now includes new features to provide a cloud experience, with monitoring, automation, and security. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Unexpected changes regarding subscriptions **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** The orchestration of the different VMware products can be done from a single console. ### 45. Robust and Reliable Virtualization Platform with Excellent Performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** João Vitor d. | Analista de infraestrutura de TI, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** What I like most about VMware vSphere is the ease of managing my virtualized environment. With vSphere, the work becomes easier, giving me more time to further improve my infrastructure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** What I don't like about VMware vSphere is the licensing. With the recent changes, the cost has become expensive, limiting its use for small and medium-sized businesses. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to manage a large number of virtual servers. My entire data center is virtualized, allowing me to have one physical host with multiple servers running inside it. ### 46. VMware a trip long 10 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesare P. | Senior Information Technology System Engineer VMware expert, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The best of VMware are all the tools we have to protect the infra. From vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, Fault Tollerance and others. VMware it's the only virtualizzation software with all these tools. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Unfortunatelly the dislike argument about VMware is the license price **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We start to use VMware to virtualizze al lthe old HW and now we use VMware to have less HW on computer room that mean less Power used, less Air Condition, less network switch .... less of all = less money ### 47. Running vSphere is amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** We are using VMware vSphere for serval years, providing a stable performant platform even for your Tier 1 Applications. The Installation, but also the maintenance and troubleshooting is easy, the support from VMware/Broadcom with implementing is great. The major updates are easy to implement, but also the new solutions are togehter with professional services easy to integrate. We use vsphere nearly 100% of our workload. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** currently there are not points about the software itself, the support team might vary depending about the support team, product and location, but finally we get our issue solved. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** we get rid of a maschine park, giving a the chance to react on hardware malfunction using cluster. ### 48. Vmware vSphere is a great product, but is it great for the pocket? **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taryn F. | Software Solutions Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** vSphere is easily implemented and integrates seamlessly with other software. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Support from Vmware is lacking compared to their competitors. Pricing has increased and licensing can be difficult for large enterprises. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a Hypervisor, Vmware support and skill is widely available, which makes management, implementation, sales discussions and support relatively simple from a technology consultants perspective. This results in easy sales cycles and renewals revenue. vSphere is now available in a an MSP model, which allows for monthly pricing, based on actual consumption, making it more widely available to organisations ### 49. VMware vSphere review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** nathnael m. | System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** User-Friendly Interface:intuitive interface for managing VMs and resources. Scalability: Supports large-scale deployments. High Availability: minimal downtime. Resource Management: Dynamic resource allocation. easily implemented. Simply it is the best Solution forIT Infrastructure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** there are almost none downsides but to mention just comments: The Platform can beoverwhelming for new comers and the cost can be expensive for small organizations. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Server consolidation : it allows me to rum multiple VMs to run on a single server. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Simplified management ### 50. Simple to Use interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Using the product is very intutive and easy to use. Im im looking at solution by some of the othe big competitors, I would say vSphere is by far the most feature rich with a long list of integrations to things like PureStorage solutions. Its very easy to setup a vSphere environment from scratch. Installation of ESXi is very quick and deploying the VCSA is pretty straightforward. When you do run into an issue, you can find support either from the community or by reaching out to VMware support. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** I cant think of a downside when considering competing products. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allow us to administer our entire server infrastructure as well as the VDI solultion ## VMware vSphere Discussions - [Is ESXi software free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-esxi-software-free) - 4 comments, 1 upvote - [What is ESXi used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-esxi-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is VMware vSphere Hypervisor used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vmware-vsphere-hypervisor-used-for) - 2 comments - [What is VMware vSphere standard?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vmware-vsphere-standard) - 2 comments - [What is ESXi operating system?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-esxi-operating-system) - 1 comment - [View VMware vSphere pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+14%3A55%3A09+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=878d25c2-bb40-46b5-a23d-283142c3049f&secure%5Btoken%5D=7d59789fbf9f8ec61ea1b7f17649a245843f7f5115cda7286045d5cf1eb15c43&format=llm_user) ## VMware vSphere Integrations - [Acronis Cyber Protect](https://www.g2.com/products/acronis-acronis-cyber-protect/reviews) - [Azure Portal](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-portal/reviews) - [Grafana Labs](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/reviews) - [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) - [VMware NSX](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-nsx/reviews) - [Zabbix](https://www.g2.com/products/zabbix/reviews) ## VMware vSphere Features **Performance** - Scalability - Portability - Data Recovery **Functionality** - OS Integration - Resource Saving - Performance Management - Security **Agentic AI - Server Virtualization** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top VMware vSphere Alternatives - [Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (288 reviews) - [Azure Virtual Machines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-machines/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (377 reviews) - [Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)](https://www.g2.com/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (284 reviews)