# 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 **intuitive and easy to use** , appreciating its seamless setup and management of virtual environments. (69 reviews) - Users benefit from the **robust features** of VMware vSphere, which ensure high uptime and ease of use. (57 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive interface and robust features** of VMware vSphere, enhancing virtualization management for complex environments. (30 reviews) - Users value the **ease of management** with VMware vSphere, enjoying its seamless integration and user-friendly administration. (24 reviews) - Users appreciate the **high reliability** of VMware vSphere, enabling efficient management and accessibility of infrastructure. (19 reviews) - Resource Management (18 reviews) - Stability (18 reviews) - Setup Ease (15 reviews) - User Interface (14 reviews) - Integrations (13 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express concern about the **high pricing** of VMware vSphere, which may limit its accessibility for some. (56 reviews) - Users face **high licensing costs** with VMware vSphere, leading to budget concerns and potential vendor lock-in. (31 reviews) - Users find the **high licensing costs** of VMware vSphere challenging, particularly for smaller organizations with limited budgets. (29 reviews) - Users face **cost increases** that complicate long-term commitment to VMware vSphere, limiting accessibility for smaller groups. (12 reviews) - Users are frustrated by the **pricing issues** , as software costs and annual renewals consistently increase. (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. Accessible and Supported **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I find it extremely accessible, specifically in the learning and support. The ease of access to upgrades and knowledge base helps extensively for new, intermediate and advanced users. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** I feel like the network knowledge base could use some help with some more ease of access from the vSphere home. I remember having to go looking for it and resigned myself to accessing the ESXi host UI in order to manage my virtual switches and port groups. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSphere houses all of our virtual machines and DRS also allows to easily provide redundancy for our hosts/VMs. ### 2. Establishing the Criteria **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian H. | Service Owner / Senior Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Universability - All integrated into one single UI Modern UI **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Certificate Management - Often complexities or issues arise from third-party certificate creations Permission control - Too complex / More permission groups causing issues Refresh Issues of running / completed tasks in daily usage **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized management of all virtual machines Adopt different VDI infrastructures into one VDI Build the basis for internal cost reports ### 3. Solid Old foundation of Virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit S. | Sr. IT Engg., Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The best part is we can go through so much knowledge base globally through various support groups, forums, articles, web-sites to get help in case of any issue. Good solid foundation of virtualization infra and keep on improving themself. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Cost of ownership is very much now a days. Customer support needs to be more agile and flexible. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a virtual infra to build to serve the Prod, Dev, QA VM. ### 4. Virtualized Server Infrastructure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh M. | Senior System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It encapsulates every facet of an organization's IT needs. It uses ESXi, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter seamlessly. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** I miss the old perpetual license model, but that was bound to go away eventually. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost of running multiple physical servers, from both a physical hardware requirement, and power usage standpoint, VMware virtualization is saving my customer money, while also making it easier and more secure to maintain. ### 5. VMware vSphere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Upgrades, upgrading is hard, it is difficult because all the pieces, looking forward for VCF to see how that improves. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** we manage all our Vms using Vsphere, makes it easy to support our environment. lots of options, plugins and features that help you on the day by day dutties ### 6. The way all virtual machine management should be done... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** 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 **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping us to manage some legacy SQL cluster instances on-premise, along with some VMs. Snapshots give us reassurance should anything go wrong with patching and upgrades. ### 7. Are you planning on using multiple nodes? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Military | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mean.. what else are you going to use to take multiple disks across multiple hosts and make your virtual SAN out then all, clustering together all those resources? You're just not. If you're only using one host, then sure, vSphere probably isn't the best solution, even if your drive is a peda in size; why would you? ### 8. Nothing, and everything, changes in VMware vSphere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation as well as migration to cloud through the use of Azure VMware SOlution ### 9. Constantly the best hypervisor on the planet **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawel P. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I like the product as it provides the stable feature rich platform which competitiors are not (for now) even close to be. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Support is getting worse and worse, especially after acqusition.. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Offloading lots of manual out of the box which are not possible with competitive solutions. Provides higher availability for our business apps. ### 10. Designing and deploying solution based on vSphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian U. | IT Expert, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** This is great solution to work with virtual workload, with virtualize storage, virtualize network. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Now, I dislike new licencing model, Its too expensiv **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vmware vSphere is the gretest virtualization technologu, after deploying, there are no problems, usually everything works great. ### 11. My VMware vSphere Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** EJ P. | System Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** at ease managing virtual machines, and number of features that can be use for monitoring and managing. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** too expensive and might should have a open source package **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing multiple esxi host might be difficult but by having VSphere it solve the difficult problem ### 12. vSphere fits all workloads! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** 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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** i find it to have too many things to watch for . **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** i use it for server virtualization, it enable us to do virtualization with ease ### 13. Highly scalable virtualization platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan M. | Infrastructure team lead, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Solid rock, simple to management, scalable with great performance. Great support for hardware and easy to integrate and implement it. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Support get worse in the last years. Pricing can be hard to understand. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating virtualization infrastructure with ease. Great memory management of VMs let us easily overprovision hosts without performance impact. ### 14. VMware vSphere most user-friendly tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario Rafael V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Licensing can be expensive for smaller businesses **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Private cloud in a easy and organised way ### 15. Overall very good experiences with the Vsphere ecosystem **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samuel W. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Sometimes difficult to troubleshoot problems, involves going into depth on the CLI for more complex issues. **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 ### 16. Transmute | Amplify | Accelerate - An Inventiveness Workload platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen S. | Infrastructure Delivery Sr Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **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 **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 **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** High availability Facility to transference virtual machine metaphors ### 17. Rock solid production ready virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 18. Nice UI and high availability features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jeremie v. | Administrateur informatique, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2024 **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. **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 **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 ### 19. Best virtual environment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2024 **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 **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Licensing model compared to old cost plan. **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 ### 20. VMware vSphere **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Collin Y. | System Admin, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** It isnt as straight forward when upgrading hosts. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has drastically reduced the number of physical servers in production ### 21. VMware vSphere review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mansoor C. | Senior Network Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The ease of installation and integration **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Customer support processes can be enhanced and reaching time to support can be reduced. **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. ### 22. Top of the top among virtualization software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariusz N. | System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** -continous improvement of the product, -UI is clear and consistent -vMotion and Storage vMotion :) **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** -subscription based licensing, no option for perpetual -lifecycle time of software is short. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** -no unplanned downtimes of systems hosted on vsphere, high availabilty ### 23. Amazing usage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I like how user friendly it is along with being able to work with. **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 **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. ### 24. University Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick M. | Virtualization and Tier One Engineer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Lets us fully utilize our investment in our hardware. Reduces our costs. Easiest plateform to manage **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** New ownership by Broadcom. Cost. reducing the product line means less flexibility **Recommendations to others considering VMware vSphere:** TAM Support is the best. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation and lowering costs ### 25. Review from customer side **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitry P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Great management of your workloads. System documented pretty well and its quite easy to find answers to almost any of your questions. Literally quite complex to break something even for noobs. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** You still cann occasionly delete Content Library New interface really ugly, Im talking about CSS that break lines in different way. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Save time on VMs management ### 26. vSphere make admins life easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** babu t. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I started working in IT before vmware vsphere was in the market or not much in use, for every requiremnet we have to buy new hardware and install OS and the server is not much scalable. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** New licensing model and the cost, the VCF is great for large customers who utilize all the features bundled with it. For small edge customers there is no replacemnet for ROBO licenses. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maximum utilization of hardware and all the resourses. Less footprint . Year by year the most advanced features are introducing in vsphere. ### 27. vSphere is still the number one for enterprise server virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anders B. | Medarbetare, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Unparallelled effiency and manageability **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Pricing can be a challenge, depending on workload **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Effeficient use of hardware resources, including system administration ### 28. vSphere is the only game in town. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard H. B. | Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I have used vSphere for several years now. I have tried other Hypervisors and while they look nice they are not fundamentally as functional as vSphere. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The cost of vSphere is initially a bit shocking. By when consider all of the features it's not bad. When you couple this with the amazing reliability it's really bargain. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to vSphere we were overrun with physical hosts. ### 29. Experience using vSphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdul Aziz M. | Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** the technology, the consep of virtualizaiton, all virtual is possible with VMware **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** now after move to Broadcom, the subscription price is to expensive then before.... **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** virtualize our infrastucture. ### 30. vSphere Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It works and works well. No complaints from the support teams compared to other solutions in this product space. There is a good user community as well. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Nothing comes to mind. vSphere has been around a long time which speaks to its effectiveness. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** virtualization of server and client systems ### 31. VMware is the top of the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent D. | Sr. Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Reliability. I like to say it just runs. I love the fact I can put a host in maintenance mode and it automatically moves the VMs to another host **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The cost. Everything is great the product is the best thing on the market but the coast scares companies. Especially non profits **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a huge datacenter footprint that cost a lot to cool. Now we have over 100 servers inside 5 hosts and 1 SAN ### 32. VMWare Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** VMware vSphere has transformed our approach to server virtualization. Its reliability and performance have allowed us to streamline operations and reduce hardware costs significantly. While the learning curve for some advanced features exists, the benefits far outweigh the challenges. We highly recommend VMware vSphere for organizations looking for a robust virtualization solution. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** While VMware vSphere is a powerful and widely-used virtualization platform, there are a few drawbacks that some users have noted for cost, complexity, resource intensive and support challenges **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware vSphere solves the challenges of resource optimization and workload management in virtualized environments, enabling us to enhance operational efficiency and reduce hardware costs. ### 33. best in class...since two decades **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David L. | KAM, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The consistency with which the product is constantly being developed and the deep integration into our systems. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The latest changes in licensing and the resulting need to buy packages. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSphere helps us to break down the silos created by the many different systems and use them efficiently. It also helps us to train the administrators on just one solution. ### 34. Really clear and useful. Information technology progress advances. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesare R. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I use it because it is really efficient and functional. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Maybe excessive updates , but is necessary . **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's solving all my virtual environment management problems. ### 35. Easy to use with a lot of functionality with good looking user interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik O. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The functionality together with the easy user interface **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The license costs and that sometimes the interface can be laggy **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating lots of virtual servers in different isolated networks and resources. Also with the good integration with Veeam it performs automated backups and makes it easy to do restores. ### 36. VMware vsphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adriana Y. | Senior System Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Centralized management, automatization, easy of implementation, integration etc **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** licensing model with subscription for small infrastructures **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** automatization and easy of management and implementation ### 37. A hypervisor that is built for the enterprise **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Enrique A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It is a product that is widely adopted by companies worldwide and is considered a must-have if you are a serious contender in virtualizing your environment and infrastructure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** At times the pricing can be confusing, particularly when they come up with a new release. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps my customers maximize their infrastructure spend. ### 38. VMware vSphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal N. | Wintel Admin L2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** User friendly and useful all vSphere features. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** User list report from users and Groups from Single Sign on. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware vSphere solves several key challenges related to data center and IT infrastructure management, offering benefits such as improved efficiency, scalability, and reliability. Here are some of the problems it addresses and how it can benefit an organization or an individual user. ### 39. vsphere _ simple yet expensive. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Russell K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** It is simple to use, teach and it simplifiws VM management. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** The new licensing model. It negativly impacts slammer orgs using on prem environments. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It removes much of the hypervisor management burdon and vCenter is getting more and more streamlined in regards to ease of use and understand vs older versions. ### 40. Best of bread virtualization platform, which transforms data centers into aggregated infrastructures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I live a few things most. First thing ease of Use. You can reduce TCO because You dont need extended team to maintennace vSphere. Second thing will be ease of integration and immplementation. You can do this by inetrnal team without 3rd party support and additional cost. Next thing will be good customer support. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Cost in biger scale can be immportant and expert support with big scale immplementations. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** ALL in one platform that covers day by day operations, infarstructure handling and security topicks. ### 41. The de facto standard in virtualization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Stability, workflows, update process, functionalities overall, HA, DRS and vMotion in particular. Easy implementation and maintenance, integration with VMware Cloud Director and NSX. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** With the new licensing models, I'm forced to get a lot of components I don't need. Customer support. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Along with VMware Cloud Director, allows my company to manage a multitenant cloud for our customers. ### 42. Easy to manage and administer. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher K. | IT Infrastructure Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Virtualization and vmotion feature. Able to migrate VMs around **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** VSphere requires more hardware resources. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy backup and recovery. ### 43. Easy to use dashboard **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin B. | Director of MIS, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** I love vsphere because the dashboard makes it easy to organize with many different views. It really allows you to stay on top of your environment. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** I can't think of anything off the top of my head. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to manage many different workloads in an easy to use dashboard. ### 44. Ease of Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anand K. | Sr. Cloud Architect - Migration, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** easy to use and implement in a very complicated environment **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** it is too expensive and no live tool to monitor the price like cloud **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** most of our business applications run on vmware and it works as charm ### 45. Good product but less support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasanta M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Vmware is known brand to all and it has good product line **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** Support and transition now is killing the enthu **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is providing a virtulization which is stable in the merket with good features so solving many issue. ### 46. Simple, Reliability & Strong **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick M. | System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Great product to manage your virtual environment. Using it now for years and it does not disappoint me. It's a solid stable product. If we have problems with our environment ist nostly something around vSphere. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** After the acquisition is was a little mess with the licencing and pricing. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stable environment ### 47. Best virtualization product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Didac A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** The reliabilty of vmware and the ease of deploying vms **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** It's quite expensive for a startup that is trying to glow up **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware vSphere helps us by solving the problem of virtualization our servers. ### 48. VMware for sales **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** andrea r. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** is it verz widespread and famous, it is like a SAP for ERP, so it is a safe choice **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** unclear situation on customer side about what"s happening with vmware by broadcom **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** virtualising server capabilities ### 49. Technical Analys **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harry N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** Great virtual environment and server centrelizxe **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** It works great for what we configured and nothing that we don;t like about. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting update package a d for vSpheere application. ### 50. VSphere is a Solid Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSphere?** vSphere is a reliable product that that is well supported and easy to navigate to most functions. **What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?** I have found that some functions like authentication and host configuration can be hard to navigate to. **What problems is VMware vSphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to control our ESXi hosts easily across both of out data centers without leaving the console to visit a different application. ## 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=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+00%3A46%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e9b73913-ab8e-46be-9042-4d3dbd77f850&secure%5Btoken%5D=2226f713f9b21d1bef64a535bd0e3f2370434d3363b462893889bb13990bfb74&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)