VMware vSphere Reviews & Product Details - Page 4

It encapsulates every facet of an organization's IT needs. It uses ESXi, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I miss the old perpetual license model, but that was bound to go away eventually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy too use,i have been using it for a long time, and it is really stable, I love it.

It is great to manage all your vms in just a single pane of glass.

It has a lot of plugins for other tools lie PURE or Zerto that helps a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upgrades, upgrading is hard, it is difficult because all the pieces, looking forward for VCF to see how that improves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As each version of vSphere has progressed, the product has just gone from strength-to-strength. Best features:

- VM vMotion

- Storage vMotion

- DRS

- vSphere upgrades are simple

- Cross vCenter vMotion is great addition in later releases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing costs have risen since Broadcomm have taken over, we've had to drop the enterprise editions in favour of standard to keep it within budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unless you're completely new to ESX or VMWare, you probably already understand or know what vSphere is; however, it's ok if that's not the case. If you are familiar with Bare Metal hypervisors then you're probably running ESX on any one, or more, drives on multiple devices to provide services to whatever organization you're in. In some cases, one "node" is all you need (situation dependant) but if you're doing anything that includes multiple nodes and clustering, then vSphere is a must. There are limited other products an competetors, but most everything is based off this sophtware; in fact, in cases where you may have as few as 4 hosts in a particular cluster, and you're not running a virtual distributed switch, it's necessary to be running vSphere if you're trying to cluster those hosts together and run your vSAN service.

The biggest takeaway, if that once you get things up and going, so long as you don't have to break down your setup and move (which, I hope is the general case, Data Centers are not designed, organically, to move locations on the cyclic rate, though, we in the Military do it often), you should never need to go back into the ESX on any individual Host, once you've pulled those hosts into your cluster - everything can be ran, and probably should be ran, from the vSphere. It is a robust piece of gear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I know VMWare has recently come out with different products that can assist with fault tolerance and rebuilding of clusters, should you have a catestrophic failure; however, one of the drawbacks to vSphere is that if you're in an environment where you have to pick up and go - break down your physical equipment and move to a different location - things can go extremely wrong when powering your hosts back up.

It so happens that I work in an industry that has multiple 3 to 4 node clusters, or, in some cases, a 2 node cluster with a witness.

It's for this, that I would recommend not utilizing s vDS, as well. If you don't fire up those things at the right time/in the right order, you can break your vSAN and have to rebuild your vSphere, claim those disks and rebuild your vSphere. Don't start getting high and mighty on all the services it runs that should prevent this, it happens.

In regards to this, a lot of time, if you have thorogh knowledge os esxcli, you can repair a lot of things.. however, if you don't, you're going to have to rebuild and hopfully save all your data.. More I could say about this, but I'll leave it there for now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about VMwarevSphere is simply that evn though new releases deliver new support and capabilities, the underlying product has not changed substantially over the years and those releases.

This ensures that significant retraining on the GUI and functionality doesn't need to happen constantly, your skills are maintained and incrementally improved, and confidence in the application is maintained.

Installation, upgrades, operations and maintenance are all improved and and familiar in their execution, and the actual capabilities of the product itself, along with the innovation happening (AVS for example) are unparalleled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing is an issue and we are seeing that with clients. Along with the free version being removed which allowed a test environment to be maintained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the product as it provides the stable feature rich platform which competitiors are not (for now) even close to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support is getting worse and worse, especially after acqusition.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is great solution to work with virtual workload, with virtualize storage, virtualize network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Now, I dislike new licencing model, Its too expensiv Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

at ease managing virtual machines, and number of features that can be use for monitoring and managing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

too expensive and might should have a open source package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

to me, vSpehere is a flexible virtualization platform. it efficiently manages both production and non-production applications.

vSphere has been very stable, practical and it's a very scalable infrastructure for us.

we can optimize resources allocation, usefull in scarcity situation.

It comes with lots of feature like disaster recovery, live snapshots, and encryption at rest.

We use vSphere to manages both production and non-production applications. it think it is an ideal choice for organizations of all sizes. i like vSphere's ability to perform migrations between servers , it's availability and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i find it to have too many things to watch for . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solid rock, simple to management, scalable with great performance. Great support for hardware and easy to integrate and implement it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support get worse in the last years. Pricing can be hard to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.