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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
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CA
Phone
+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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Virtualization and Tier One Engineer
Higher Education
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

Lets us fully utilize our investment in our hardware. Reduces our costs. Easiest plateform to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

New ownership by Broadcom. Cost. reducing the product line means less flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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TAM Support is the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Consolidation and lowering costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DP
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Save time on VMs management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

Unparallelled effiency and manageability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

Pricing can be a challenge, depending on workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Effeficient use of hardware resources, including system administration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Prior to vSphere we were overrun with physical hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware vSphere?

the technology, the consep of virtualizaiton, all virtual is possible with VMware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

now after move to Broadcom, the subscription price is to expensive then before.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

virtualize our infrastucture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

Nothing comes to mind. vSphere has been around a long time which speaks to its effectiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

virtualization of server and client systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSphere?

The latest changes in licensing and the resulting need to buy packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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