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VMware vSphere Overview

What is VMware vSphere?

VMware vSphere is the enterprise workload platform. VMware vSphere brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs.

VMware vSphere Details
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VMware vSphere is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.


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Broadcom
Company Website
Year Founded
1991
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@broadcom
59,531 Twitter followers
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www.linkedin.com
61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CA
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+1 800 225-5224
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$27,500,000,000
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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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A E.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Server management is now easier and streamlined"
We have multiple serves to manage, and VMware makes it a breeze to manage them all in one place.
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Narendra A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Seamless Virtualization Excellence"
VMware has truly exceeded my expectations in providing a seamless virtualization experience. The user-friendly interface, robust features, and reli...
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4.5 out of 5
"best Hypervisor"
overall easy usage, plenty of knowledge from vendor and partner, many features for every need,
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

VMware vSphere is a user-friendly virtualization platform, ideal for organizations that want to simplify IT management. Its intuitive interface and automation tools make tasks like deploying and monitoring virtual machines straightforward.

Pros:

• Ease of Use: The dashboard is well-organized, making it easy to manage VMs and resources.

• Automation: Built-in tools for updates, backups and scaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

Licensing can be expensive for smaller businesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Private cloud in a easy and organised way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Samuel W.
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DevOps Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

Ease of deploying VMs and scaling, adding hosts to new clusters, etc. Very clean and support good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

Sometimes difficult to troubleshoot problems, involves going into depth on the CLI for more complex issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to run Virtual machines with ease, very useful to do it on premise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen S.
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Infrastructure Delivery Sr Analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

1) It Converts – Helping hand – Stimulates as benefits

2) Provides augment functioning competence by factoring in DRAM & PMEM and track the evolution towards sustainability goalmouths

3) Quicken novelty for DevOps Team with advance suppleness of containerized workloads

4) Inherent safekeeping with Trust Authority and VM Encryption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

1) Hard to use due to new price and licensing schemes 2)

Web interface can be made more approachable and improved since more number of features available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

High availability

Facility to transference virtual machine metaphors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

The product is rock steady comes with HA built in and is a tried and tested soltion that is the deserving industry standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

The akwared SKU limits and teh tweaks that are constantly happing tpo what is included or not inclyuded in a SKU from minor version releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The solution is allowing us to maximise the usage of our on-prem hardware giving us easy disaster recovery and high availabilty out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

jeremie v.
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

I use vmware daily as production environment

The Ui it's simple to get log to debug. The customer support is always available to help you and kind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

the new licences management. and the end of the perpetual licences.

The docs isn't simplement to check about the api to integration to another solution as the ease of implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the easy management of ther server and the easy migration . the benefit is to win many hour of management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

It provides a platform for creating and managing VMs, offering a lightweight, efficient virtualization solution. ESXi serves as the foundational layer for VMware's virtualization stack. It enables the efficient operation of VMs by providing isolation, resource allocation, and robust performance on physical hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

Licensing model compared to old cost plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CY
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Hospital & Health Care
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

It has been nice to be able to manage all my hosts in one area. Their support has been great thus far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

It isnt as straight forward when upgrading hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has drastically reduced the number of physical servers in production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MC
Senior Network Security Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

The ease of installation and integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

Customer support processes can be enhanced and reaching time to support can be reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Facilitates business continuity, image management, content library and virtual machine encryption. Allows centralized provisioning, monitoring and administration processes using cluster-level network aggregation capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MN
System Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

-continous improvement of the product,

-UI is clear and consistent

-vMotion and Storage vMotion :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

-subscription based licensing, no option for perpetual

-lifecycle time of software is short. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

-no unplanned downtimes of systems hosted on vsphere, high availabilty Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Derek G.
DG
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

I like how user friendly it is along with being able to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

I don't like the pricing with it, I also don't like that there is not a free version for Non-Profits or small buisnesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Allowing me to host my website and host some of my client portals for my clients to access their data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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