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- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Vsphere - Best virtualization software
Reviewed on 2022/06/19
virtualization in a very good way without any major issues & less human intervention to manage the...
virtualization in a very good way without any major issues & less human intervention to manage the platform. Patching automation with VUM , DRS , HA are some of the excellent features of vsphere. Moreever the latency wise very less compared to other hypervisor softwares.
Pros
I would say the vsphere provides various features as a package. vmotion , FT , DRS , Affinity/Antiaffinity rules , HA , monitoring , automations etc..VROPS/VRLI/VRA/VRO are the tools provided along with vsphere which provides excellent features when compared to its competitors
Cons
Obviously the costing is the major drawback especialy the production support cost & it's not that much value for money , since vmware support takes more time to resolve & troubleshoot issue. It's my personal opinion. Other issue is in patching , vmware needs to come up with one click upgrade same how their competitors have.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Use vSphere to manage our virtual machines and works better after we migrate from physical...
Reviewed on 2023/02/20
Reduced cost of the physical hardware used, from 24 host to 4, reduced cost of spare parts for all...
Reduced cost of the physical hardware used, from 24 host to 4, reduced cost of spare parts for all of them, also reduced the heat of all in the room, getting low consumption of electricity. Getting a good improvement of this servers for our department and the company.
Pros
vSphere is easy to use, got physical servers and migrated to a virtual environment got better to manage them and better performance
Cons
It was a little complicated to configure all the environment, from the internal network switch, storage and all the stuff to have the best practices completed.
Alternatives Considered
VirtualBoxReasons for Switching to vSphere
We didn't compare with others, we used VirtualBox just for computers, not for servers, but we read from reviews and from old school colleges.- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Mac client works fairly well with some issues
Reviewed on 2017/08/16
Ability to run a Windows VM in a smart card required environment is essential and VMware Horizon is...
Ability to run a Windows VM in a smart card required environment is essential and VMware Horizon is the only solution available so far.
Pros
Allows logging into a Windows VM from a Mac in a smart card required environment. The performance is speedy.
Cons
Frequently when the Windows VM screenlocks (goes to sleep) you can't unlock it. Quitting the VM and logging back in is the workaround. On Mac 10.12 Sierra and later, you must disable Apple's CryptoTokenKit, because Horizon will not work with it enabled. Which means pairing your smart card using Apple's native protocol (as opposed to using a third-party solution) is not possible.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
vSphere-review
Reviewed on 2024/11/27
Very satisfied with the features it offers and robustness
Very satisfied with the features it offers and robustness
Pros
vSphere is a product of VMware and I have known this product in and out since ESX3.x
Cons
Sometimes it might not suit for all scales of businesses

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Vmware Vsphere
Reviewed on 2021/04/24
It's cost-effective - pay as use concept if no need stop your services and get free from billings
S...
It's cost-effective - pay as use concept if no need stop your services and get free from billings
Space Effective - physical to virtual conversation helps you to save your infra space which is not possible in case of physical deployment
Why Vsphere - it a product of a leading virtualization vendor.
Pros
Vsphere - Vcenter is the platform where you can create configure and customize the virtual machines as per the customer requirement
Vsphere allows you to synchronize with multiple host/nodes, which helps you run the features of high availability smart server deployment.
Vsphere has various products which help every smaller multinational organization to manage their cloud infrastructures.
Vpshere allows you the features which highly recommended and essential to smoothly run any organization.
Vsphere is the product of Vmware and the vendor is running in the top list of virtualization providers
Features of Vsphere
High Availability - Providing the high SLA
Distributor resource scheduler - smart deployment of servers
Distributor power management - save you cost
Fault Tolerance - Zero downtime
Wow that you rarely get with any other virtualization platform.
Cons
Vsphere should be licensed purchased it's not allowed you to run the infra after 30 days of trial.
There are various packages available for their products, so small-level organizations are supposed to run all features they have to pay the cost of the required product.
Should require stronger connectivity to access your Vsphere smoothly.
Reasons for Choosing vSphere
1.For performance enhancement 2.For running additional and high ended features. 3.For customer satisfaction.Reasons for Switching to vSphere
1.Its and leader and long-running organization of virtualization 2.Provided the back end which is useful for smooth transactions of your servers and infrastructure. 3.Updated product with the current requirement- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Perfect for hosting private clouds on-prem
Reviewed on 2024/07/20
Largley positive, but when there is an incident affecting the entire cluster, you can expect to...
Largley positive, but when there is an incident affecting the entire cluster, you can expect to have a bad day. For example if there are locking issues within the cluster against a fibre-channel storage array, you may need to reboot the entire cluster resulting in an outage of 100% of all infrastructure on the platform.
Pros
The web UI makes it very easy to manage ESXi hosts and their configuration, as well as individual VM configuration. It is simple to setup an HA toplogy with numerous VMs running on a cluster of ESXi (hypervisor) hosts. DRS makes it simple to automatically migrate VMs between hosts in a cluster.
Cons
The licencing of features is complex, and base level licences preclude feature such as storage vMotion and DRS. This should be part of the base offering.
The vSphere API is a bit clunky and the SDKs available in python are quire fragmented. No infrastructure as code offerings are made as all configuration is generally done manually by clicking the mouse, or via manual CLI commands.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great software to manage virtual machines
Reviewed on 2024/08/22
Is great to manage virtual environment, in our case we manage servers and is great to have an easy...
Is great to manage virtual environment, in our case we manage servers and is great to have an easy access and control most of the stuff.
Pros
The easy way to manage virtual machines
Cons
Sometimes it got freeze and affects your activities
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
VmWare vSphere is the best
Reviewed on 2024/05/02
I use Vsphere daily to manage Virtual Environments. I like the interface, clean, intuitive and easy...
I use Vsphere daily to manage Virtual Environments. I like the interface, clean, intuitive and easy to use
Pros
Vsphere is a must when you manage Virtual Machines / Storage and their environment.
Fro the Vsphere Client Dashboard you can see all your VM, the storages and for every VM you can create/delete a new one, change the settings, do some actions such as reboot, power on/off, take (and revert) snapshots, move the VM to another node/storage, just to tell some actions you could do.
Obviously you can connect to selected VM (without the need of using RDP or SSH for example).
There is a lot of documentation on internet if you need information or support.
Cons
it seems the price will increase a lot for Italy customers
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
vSphere - Great Way To Virtualize Your Network
Reviewed on 2024/05/20
Pros
Great for virtualizing your network and managing your network and virtual machines.
Cons
Very expensive initial cost but annual support is not bad.
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
It has no comparison
Reviewed on 2023/11/13
Pros
I believe that today there is no similar system in terms of reliability and stability with a series of incredible additional services. Virtualizing today means Vmware!!
Cons
I can't find any topic where I didn't like Vmware.
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
VMware vSphere Review
Reviewed on 2021/08/15
Very satisfied.
Very satisfied.
Pros
-Easy of use
-Resources allocation for VMs.
-Easy migration
-Usability
-Stability
-Frequently updates with new features and security fixes.
Cons
Orchestration features need more AI enhancements and more automation integration using API this will made integration process very easy for developers and administrators.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Experience with vSphere
Reviewed on 2022/04/09
It has been used for the implementation of large monitoring environments for both data centers and...
It has been used for the implementation of large monitoring environments for both data centers and monitoring equipment distributed nationwide.
Pros
The ease of generating and customizing virtual machines, as well as being able to know how they are working at all times.
Cons
Virtual machines from old environments are very complex to migrate, since changes have to be made to the network components, disk, etc. Causing on several occasions that the virtual machine from 0 had to be generated again, in addition to getting new drivers.
Alternatives Considered
VirtualBoxReasons for Switching to vSphere
Due to its support capacity for large environments, in addition to its implementation and deployment facilities.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great Virtualization
Reviewed on 2024/01/29
It has been a great and reliable experience using vSphere Vmware.
It has been a great and reliable experience using vSphere Vmware.
Pros
It is easy to setup and maintain virtual machines with vSphere.
Cons
It has hardware failures that need to be addressed to keep hosts running.
- Industry: Newspapers
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
vSphere is software tah i use for VM Server
Reviewed on 2023/05/19
With vSphere i can control mw VM Server anytime with faster and easier
With vSphere i can control mw VM Server anytime with faster and easier
Pros
The most i like form vSphere is the software is fast and easy to use
Cons
There is nothing yet about vSphere that i least like
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
vSphere Review
Reviewed on 2023/05/25
Pros
Ability to migrate virtual machines from one vsphere environment to another
Cons
Does not provide in depth error analysis on servers that fail either due to power or network failure

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Good virtualization tool
Reviewed on 2023/06/24
Pros
Its easy to use. Can create VM pools to hold applications and operating systems. There isn't a long learning curve to get certified.
Cons
The products are not free and you do need a license or subscription to use it.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Solid virtualization tool in the IT market
Reviewed on 2023/02/20
Pros
It like the integration with cloud providers to offer vmware as a service. Specially on IBM Cloud where we have a wide variety of offerings.
Cons
Nothing to argue. The top virtualization tool in the market!
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
vSphere
Reviewed on 2022/08/23
Easy to use and very helpful to create a virtual machine if you have a template and it will be...
Easy to use and very helpful to create a virtual machine if you have a template and it will be ready within 5 minutes. It reduces the network and disk I/O failure.
Pros
With the help of vSphere VMware ESXi, we can create and run virtual machines immediately. We don't need to take care of dedicated physical hardware and maintain it by itself.
Cons
I didn't face any issues yet with the vSphere ESXi component.
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
vSphere
Reviewed on 2021/12/16
We went virtual in 2007 using vSphere and have never looked back. vSphere is the backbone of our...
We went virtual in 2007 using vSphere and have never looked back. vSphere is the backbone of our datacenter environments and has allowed us to provide resources for application owners as well as integrate with products like VMWare Site Recovery Manager, so we can protect our data across multiple datacenters. It is a fantastic product.
Pros
When managed via vCenter, distributing virtual machines amongst distributed resources is about the most powerful aspect of this product. It allows administrators to maximize value from hardware purchases and create internal redundancies and high availability.
Cons
vSphere 7 introduced a new strategy in the use of the host boot disk to the point that certain types of boot disks were burning out and causing host servers to crash. VMWare now forcing customers to buy new hardware for existing hosts in order to avoid downtime.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Struggle to survive?
Reviewed on 2021/04/09
It is a great software, even masterpiece in some aspects. But it feels as it requires too much...
It is a great software, even masterpiece in some aspects. But it feels as it requires too much resources and money to be justified in the most of cases. Most of consumers aren't going need it especially as there are free alternatives.
Still one should carefully consider whether it is time for say Kubernetes or the company's requirements demands something bigger and more sophisticated.
Pros
It still a well-known and - which is more important - widely adopted solution tightly coupled with other VMWare products. it is very easy to hire required specialist or get help. In 2019 VSphere did a huge step forward embracing Kubernetes as a first-class citizen.
Implies very strict and much safier application (vm/containers - depends on the poin of view and scenario) separation. Para-virtualization sometimes delivers on it's promise to speed up containers.
Cons
It is just way too huge without real benefits. Yes, it is offers a better separation of your components as every vm acts like separate computer. Yes, it is capable to run containers. Metrics are there, too and they are quite good.
But. Do you really need it? There is much tinier alternatives . Kubernetes or Docker Swarm (can't recommend that one though) while being the solutions of a different class may still be enough for a vast major of scenarios.
On top of that, vSphere is costly not in terms of licensing, it also requires a quite different hardware.

- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
I would choose no other virtualization platform
Reviewed on 2018/10/16
As an administrator for VMware-related hypervisors and products, I would choose no other hypervisor...
As an administrator for VMware-related hypervisors and products, I would choose no other hypervisor or virtualization platform to run in my datacenter.
Pros
As a hypervisor, vSphere is and has been the best in class. They are always the first to come out with essential features (vMotion, vSwitch, etc.) and these features become daily used and reliable. I've administered hundreds of VMs over my career and have had little issue from vSphere as a hypervisor. Their feature set is phenomenal, and support is very good as well. Licensing can get costly, but there are several versions to fit your needs.
What's perhaps more impresive is that as a platform, vSphere can be built into other VMware components (vCenter, SRM, vRealize, etc.) which keeps growing. Entering vSphere opens your datacenter up to a entrire world of virtualization products, and most third-party products that integrate with virtualization start with vSphere.
Cons
It is easy to get up and running, but it can also get complex depending on what you want to do. It can also get costly if you cannot get discounts and need full feature set.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
They're the market leader for a reason, but so many features means complicated UX
Reviewed on 2018/11/14
Pros
Every feature an hypervisor can offer - widest feature set and ecosystem to deliver the most comprehensive solution. They scale very well across all parameters: Cluster size, datastore size, VM count, fault tolerance at scale Etc.
Their VSAN is great for ROBO deployments, as you get a single pane of glass for all layers (compute, network, storage)
HA / DRS / VSMC are all excellent tools for improving availability of the applications that drive the business.
Cons
Every feature means a complicated GUI, with way too many nobs to turn for a small deployment.
They VSAN scales poorly in terms of ROI, as more often than not you need the All-Flash VSAN, which after 2-3 copies of the data yields low capacity at double or triple the cost of the (already expensive) Flash Media.
Replication is nice but again limited in scale, works great in getting data off the ROBOs to the main datacenter but not scalable enough as a DR solution

- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
My Efficient Virtual Space
Reviewed on 2021/04/15
Here is very great and thankful experience using Vmware Vsphere , My lot of work are going to...
Here is very great and thankful experience using Vmware Vsphere , My lot of work are going to Smooth and Well organised My client issues solved by my team very amazingly and fast
i think it’s very best and effective software for business and company so definitely i recommend this over any other software
Pros
VSphere is best and most efficient platform for manging virtual machine we can easily share the physically stored machine in the data centre to our client through the Vsphere , we can access and quickly resolve the issues of client using vsphere More well oraganizly
Cons
It’s most costly software but it provides lot of features but if you want to give suppose 20000 vms so you need to get the packages according your criteria, because each of version contains various no of vm’s such like vsphere 6.0 contain 10000 to 20000 , vsphere 7.0 contain 20000 to 30000 such like that
so we need to pay accordingly our requirement so i think the price can differ and anyone can afford it for small businesses
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Virtualization = VMware
Reviewed on 2020/09/30
We no longer have to worry about buying new physical servers. We have 2 HPE blades chassis and 2...
We no longer have to worry about buying new physical servers. We have 2 HPE blades chassis and 2 HPE Synergy across 4 location. VM migration between data centers is very helpful.
hardware is being utilized at almost 85% and overall cost is certainly reduced.
Pros
I have been using VMware for almost 12 years, day to day operations had never been so easy. easy implementation and administration. we converted 95% of our server to virtual machines.
My favorites features are online migration, high availability and DRS .
Cons
I didn't and still don't like the web interface, the old Windows application prior to version 5.5 was perfect and very effective. now with the new flash based interface is dissapointing.
there is another HTML5 version but it lacks some features.
i am hoping that they come up with a new version these days knowing that Flash plugins will no be longer supported.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Extremely expensive but still worth it for legacy applications
Reviewed on 2019/03/09
vSphere revolutionized the datacenter and is still running strong after almost 30 years. Without it...
vSphere revolutionized the datacenter and is still running strong after almost 30 years. Without it we might still be stuck in the stone ages without virtualization or cloud!
Pros
vSphere has been around for a while and is trusted for it's stability and reliability. If your applications are not built to fail, if you treat yours apps like pets vs cattle, you probably want to pay for VMware vSphere. Depending on your use case, vSphere may be the only game in town. For instance, if you want to do some complicated GPU sharding, only VMware has worked with Nvidia to offer this. Certainly feature wise, this is the most robust hypervisor on the market. They also have a large ecosystem, community, and excellent support.
Cons
The pricing is quite high and they try to justify this by including more and more management software, SDN, SDS in the overall vCloud offering. However it's still quite expensive and difficult to rationalize in smaller companies with challenging budgets. On the flip side, they have so many offerings now and have create a variety of total solutions which can fit any number of use cases.