VMware vSphere Benefits
We condensed our whole Data Center into three 42U racks, one rack for switches and 32 blade servers, one rack for UPS, one rack for the SAN. It uses less power consumption, less space, less network switches, Less UPS battery.
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Brian Kirsch
Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College
We don't do a lot with the encryption, but we do have the ability to encrypt something if we send it offsite. We have multiple locations, so we can encrypt our VMs, if necessary. However, we don't have a big need for it, but it's nice that it's there.
Our mission critical is our classroom. If we have college students who can't work, they paid to be there, and are paying us for the environment. Therefore, if we're down for a day, that's a real problem. Given that people have a choice of where they can go for education, we have to be always available. Otherwise, they will go next door. For us, it's about a student's success and you can only do that if you're up and running.
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
We have some downtime, but we can quickly recover from a disaster depending on the magnitude or the extent of the disaster using vSphere. The software will recover from any disaster that happens. We have also reduced our cost of production as well. vSphere has also improved our operational productivity. We have isolated servers that we couldn't integrate together, but now we can with vSphere, despite the fact that they are different models. Where they're different physical models, different memory models, you can integrate all of them. It makes our resources more available and our services more reliable to our users.
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We are running critical applications like mobile applications on vSphere.
View full review »We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing. We see performance increases from Server 2012 and forward; 2003 is debatable. There were negligible differences in 2012 but we did see benchmark performance improvement from utilizing Hypervisor and the increased density that comes with it.
View full review »It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud.
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AllanTrambouze
Consultant senior en technologie de l'information at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The new version of vSphere now integrates with containers and offers some new improvements inside vSAN, like file sharing. So, with VDI there is no need to add a VM to build a file server.
With containers, NSX is no longer mandatory and with the VMware operation manager, you can get an integrated monitored platform that can scale easily.
You will get both hands on the wheel because all of the products are fully interconnected.
vSphere 7 also adds better certificate management than before (less certificate) and vSAN is also improved in terms of the space management for reconstruction, so you will need less reserved space for this kind of operation.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
The deployment of Enterprise VMware vSphere architecture helps us provide a robust and high availability infrastructure because of the combined features of VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter such as HA, DRS and Fault Tolerance. This base metal virtualization is highly compatible with almost all of the IT hardware.
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Francis KACOU
Head of Service and Storage Infrastructure at GS2E
In terms of the benefits, I'll take you back to 2010, when we first implemented this solution. We only have physical servers, and we have a lot of projects because my company works in the energy industry.
We have many projects that could not be completed on physical servers because we have 2,000 servers.
If we were to do all of these projects on a physical server and our data center, we would have to travel all over the country. As a result, VMware aided us in server consolidation.
It aided us in server consolidation, and with VMware, we were able to provision applications for our customers very quickly. As a result, the time to manage was extremely short. So that is the advantage that we can find with VMware.
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Mohamed_Ashraf
Senior Product Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment.
View full review »Instead of having so many servers, we have got just two server nodes that are configured in high availability. We are running all our application servers, databases, and Linux and Windows systems on two servers. We've got about 12 virtual machines. If we didn't use VMware, we would have needed to buy 12 physical servers.
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Jason Hong-Turney
Lead IT Systems Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
In regards to a performance boost, I don't know at the application level, but I can tell you, purely at the vCenter level, that we have seen improvements in our ability to migrate from Windows to the appliance, now that there is full feature-parity across the stack. We're seeing reduced resource usage from the appliance, it's way more efficient in 6.7. Operations are able to complete faster, so we're happy.
It has streamlined things for us. We've been able to standardize on the newer 6.7. It's definitely given us a path forward, where we might be able to look at expanding into the public cloud, augmenting our on-prem solution now that we have some sort of feature parity.
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Stephen Parker
Systems Engineer at BYU Idaho
The new HTML5 interface is much more robust; a lot fewer bugs in it, more features. It's an overall better experience for us.
It's hard to say there has been a performance boosts for these apps but I would say it is a boost because the servers are much more responsive, the end-users complain less about it. So it must be a good thing.
The main benefit of the solution is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user.
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Kevin Williams
IT Analyst I at Los Rios Community College District
We have seen a performance boost. As we keep moving up to different versions it gets more seamless, it gets easier to maintain, to do updates to our virtual environment and to the physical end. We're also moving towards virtual storage. Moving to flash arrays and virtual storage is even speeding up our students' experience when using the virtual desktops. I would estimate a 25 percent boost.
Another benefit we've seen is with our IT technicians. It used to be this IT was assigned to a specific area, and that was what they worked on. They had 300 or 400 machines that they would have to run around to, to maintain them; re-image them every semester. Now, with the virtual environment, they are able to keep more up-to-date on their applications, on their Windows updates, and do it in the background. They are able to refresh entire labs within less than an hour, rather than sitting there all day or all week refreshing all of the labs.
We have a better, faster management. We have more productivity from our IT staff and more productivity from our students, as well.
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Michael Huset
Senior Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier.
Also, being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems. Being able to manage it, in its entirety, is easier and better for us.
View full review »It's given us the ability to consolidate SAN- and NAS-storage availability.
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reviewer939042
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
While I don't have percentages to share, I can say that I have received a performance boost (using vSphere).
The solution has improved our organization because it's made our jobs a lot easier. We're able to monitor all these customers and, with vSphere, they're much more stable than they were previously when they were on physical servers. The fact that they're more stable makes our jobs a lot easier.
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Brandon Morris
System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
As far as performance on vSphere goes, the performance is great. We've been running everything virtualized from VMware forever, so I can't really say that there has been a boost in performance, but I can tell, from version to version - and now out on version 6.7 - that everything is continuing to be better, faster, and stronger in everything that it does.
vSphere has improved our organization and what we do because it easily enables all of us as IT professionals to provision and manage the vast quantity of servers and other resources that we have. For the about 400 virtual servers that we run, it takes less time to manage and take care of those than it does for the 25 physicals that we have, just because it's so easy to simply take care of it all in one common solution, in one pane of glass.
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Luis Arencibia
IT Operations Services Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It's easy to use. For an admin who is just starting to use it, it doesn't matter, since it's generally widely used. This is a big advantage. Anybody can just come in and start using it from day one.
It's simple to use. I don't use it a lot, but I can get in and guide myself through the menus. That is what makes it intuitive and easy to use.
View full review »VMWare (and any virtualization platform) completely changes the way an organization functions. The way you investment in hardware is done from a completely different perspective, in that an initial capital investment is required, and the resources would then be available for the organizations' use.
This, of course, allowed the organization to have a ton of flexibility in resource availability. We were then able to create and build high availability across deployed hardware that would've otherwise been much more complex to accomplish using more traditional methods.
View full review »Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now.
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SeniorSyb3f0
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have absolutely seen a performance boost, in particular with some of our legacy applications. For some of the legacy apps, we have seen at least a 75 percent increase. In addition, some of the newer applications have also seen a boost because they're just more efficient running on VM rather than on bare metal. For the newer apps, depending on how they're optimized, the increase has been at least 10 percent.
Another benefit we have seen is the many-to-one relationship of VMs to hardware, versus one-to-one. It's a real win-win for our data center. It's a win-win for taxpayer dollars. And from a scalability point of view, we're able to rapidly scale workloads where we weren't able to do so before, working with just our pure hardware.
In addition to that, it really fits nicely into our automation efforts, where we can dramatically reduce the deployment times for applications and the services we provide.
View full review »Having all the VMs and everything work without the user experience being affected.
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Sid Sharma
Lead QA Analyst at Loomis Express
We do not need to deploy the software to each and every client machine. They just can access ThinApp, and they are good to go.
This solution has been very helpful to our organization. For example, if we need to run 10 servers there is a high cost attached if we buy the physical server, but if we use this solution we can buy a very large server then control everything. The most valuable feature has been the ability to utilize the vMotion when we have a problem. It has been invaluable for us when we had a problem with a broken host that we were able to redirect our traffic to a different host to keep the business operational.
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Allan Trambouze
Senior Consultant at Cofomo
It is very simple to manage.
Some of the benefits that we have seen are:
- HTML5
- Web Client
- It is fast and available.
- It works well and is reliable.
- The ESXi Quick Book is a good new feature because production people can quickly reboot the server, where previously it took a long time.
- There is no need to have an iSCSI client. Some people use it, but the industry is moving to HTML5 clients.
I am testing more products and advising my clients about what they should do and implement with the newest version of VMware.
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Daniel Pietrasanta
IT Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors.
It has provided us with cost reductions, a little bit more speed in deploying servers, and, of course, consolidation.
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reviewer924948
Senior Manager Systems/Network, Global Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics. This came as a bonus to us. Yet, we have been using it for quite a long time (12 to 13 years).
The solution is simple and efficient to manage. It has brought ease of use to employees who are not at a senior level. It has been able to expose minimal tasks which can relieve some of my senior guys to do engineering tasks, as opposed to help desk, reboots, restarts, etc. We have been able to pass some of those tasks along.
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reviewer924351
Director, Windows Server Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have seen performance boosts for our mission-critical apps, with the ability to add compute at any time. We've been using this for so many years, so over that time we have probably seen performance increases of three to four times. As compute has increased we've been able to offer that to the apps. I don't know that I can give you a total percentage increase but it's a lot.
Other benefits include high-availability, uptime, management is a lot easier, and a lower cost of support but with increased availability. That's a win.
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Without too much detail, we use the ESXi Server to host our SBS for DNS, DHCP, and Exchange in conjunction with another server the is used to run our file share. We have another ESXi we use in our test environment that has worked out in not only pretesting certain configurations, but also we use it to recover data from, say, an infected hard drive. We simply grab an image of the drive, restore it to the virtual machine while isolating the network connectivity and perform all solutions and testing that may be needed.
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PatrickBenson
Sr. Architect, Business Continuity at Sayers
Portability of infrastructure is the greatest asset of any virtualization platform. By using VMware solutions, there is no lock-in with a particular hardware vendor for compute, network, or storage needs. Likewise, the ability to run various guest operating systems further amplifies that flexibility. The overwhelming majority of my clients are able to use VMware's solutions for 100 percent of their software application needs. Finally, the ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime.
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Tony Reeves
Network Administrator
Since migrating over to vSphere, we're seeing a significant performance boost due to the fact that we've migrated over to an all-flash vSAN array. Previously we were running external storage SAN over fiber channel. We saw a significant increase, I would say at least a 50 percent increase, in our speeds due to our vSAN running on all-flash. It's been a huge improvement.
The way that vSphere increases our availability in our organization is that it allows us to run our critical business workloads, keep them highly-available, run them at speed, and easily scale when we need to.
View full review »As an enduser, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down. Since we are a small organization, we don't have a lot of hardware resources to spare. So, this consolidation helps us to aggregate a lot more services and solutions utilizing the same hardware. Of course, it also allowed us to upgrade our skills, which helped us when deploying other solutions.
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DesktopS0c59
Desktop Support Supervisor at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It's hard to say whether we've seen a boost for these apps since we were very much first onboard a long time ago with a VMware. But performance-wise, every upgrade we do, we see it gets better. Everything gets better: the networking gets better, NSX is getting better. Security-wise, that's been a really good thing for us, separating our network out a little bit more, automating our failovers.
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MUKUNDKULKARNI
IT Manager at KIRLOSKAR PNEUMATIC CO. LTD.
The built-in backup and hyper-converged systems have helped our organization.
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ForrestWu
Sr. Manager IT at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
No need to upgrade the hardware for individual machines, easily to assign more resources to virtual machines when desired.
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Rene Van Den Beden
Chief Architect at RoundTower Technologies
We've seen an increase of about five to ten percent for the mission-critical apps. Their code is a lot more optimized now that they're using it in the public cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS.
In our organization, the lifecycle management has improved. What that means is our customers are spending a lot less time on "keeping the lights on." Day 2 Operations are being simplified a lot.
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Sean Crawford
Information Systems Analyst at San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
In terms of a performance boost, we have seen about a 10 percent boost; not by much. Our workloads aren't CPU or memory-intensive, they're more idle-intensive with storage.
The solution has improved our organization in terms of compliance. In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues.
In terms of managing it, it's a lot simpler now with the vSphere HTML5 client. With the phase-out of the Flash client, which everyone doesn't like, it allows us as administrators to do our jobs far more efficiently than it did with the Flash client.
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Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
Sr. Operations Engineer at Kamstrup
Since we started using vSphere, there hasn't been as much of a performance boost, but more flexibility and stability. We've actually been running vSphere or ESX since 2003.
How vSphere has improved our organization is that we have a lot of fewer admins today than there were 15 years ago, and we have a lot more servers than at that time. But because of the flexibility and stability we encounter with vSphere, it's manageable.
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Infrastr7d14
Infrastructure with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's difficult to say if we had a performance boost when we moved to vSphere because we have been using VMware for a long time. Our ERP was actually the driving force behind our acquisition of VMware. We used that as the driver to get VMware in the door and going. Then, as we started to see what it was capable of doing - essentially running this entire heavy product - we started consuming more and more of our servers and eliminating physical machines, based on the success that we had with the ERP system.
View full review »The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need.
View full review »We are able to scale up far better with densities of 10:1 or 20:1 and provide robust, flexible computing to our increasing application demands.
View full review »The consolidation. Pre-VM, we had pain transporting applications from one physical machine to another. Now, we can consolidate machines that aren't using computer resources into an environment where they can all exist without performance degradation.
View full review »It gives us a good consolidated overview of hundreds or thousands of servers at a time.
It gives us the ability to easily manage those from a centralized point, and a lot more reliability because we can easily migrate between hardware and consolidate workloads.
View full review »vCenter provides a centralized management interface for ESXi hosts. It's not only a management tool but also a performance monitor. It's easy for us to update hundreds of ESXi hosts in a few weeks. It helps us manage thousands of VMs.
View full review »Our entire banking operation is virtualized-- the application and data centers are all virtualized. It’s become easy for us to switch between servers if there's latency or slow responsive. We can switch to servers with more resources.
View full review »- Our ability to attain our 100% virtualization goal
- Being able to consolidate and distribute our infrastructure across multiple data centers
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reviewer1232400
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We are a small company. We are moving to the private cloud along with the VMware solution, starting with building computers, then storage virtualization, and then network virtualization. VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers.
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Ganesh Sekarbabu
Windows Virtualization Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
vSphere helps our organization. Initially, we don't have an internal Cloud. We have an internal cloud, which is four years old now. We have 8000 to 9000 VMs standing in our internal cloud. We also implemented VDA using a VMware vSphere. So, it has been an absolutely pleasure having vSphere.
We provide a service to our internal customers for our development center. We have internal cloud developers. If they require 1000 VMs or 500 VMs, and in the background, we're using a vSphere VMware product.
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David Grimes
VP of Product Engineering at Navisite
vSphere has improved our organization by allowing us to deliver rock solid stability to our clients in a cost competitive fashion. The industry has moved far beyond bare metal infrastructure, other than for very specific us cases. As an operator of mission-critical applications on behalf of our clients, we chose vSphere because we needed the operability we get from features like vMotion, the stability that it gives us, and the ability to run pretty much any workload.
We host infrastructure for a very large number of clients. In many cases, we're running all their mission-critical applications in our data centers on top of vSphere. So, there is no single industry vertical. However, for each of our clients, we are their operator, and this is their mission-critical infrastructure.
When I think about the performance aspects of vSphere, we've been using it since before there was vSphere. We were actually a very early partner of VMware. I've been with NaviSite for a very long time, and I recall doing a VMware GSX Server deployment, from a number of years ago.
When I look at the performance aspects, I've definitely seen a reduction over versions from the virtualization penalty. This has been significantly reduced over the years. The size limitations of VMs, number of CPUs, amount of memory which can be allocated, and amount of storage which can be allocated are no longer of practical consequence. So, the monster VM that we talked about over VM Worlds of three to five years ago, they're here to stay, and those limits are no longer practical impediments to virtualization.
View full review »VMware will assist your organization in managing computer and storage resources, and you will be able to shrink your physical environment significantly making it easier to manage in the long run. So don't expect immediate returns. There is a high price to be paid for licensing, hardware, configuration, and knowledge acquisition.
View full review »vSphere provides the infrastructure framework to manage server and client systems in a multitude of user environments, from dedicated virtual workstations to short-term use systems. vSphere makes the provisioning and deployment of virtual servers and clients quick and predictable, centralizing the customization process while removing common hardware problems.
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reviewer1390341
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
It makes my environment very reliable.
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Bilal Aslam
Founder & Technology Advisor at EUC Solutions
This is a solution that is normally very straightforward. It doesn't give you many surprises. It's very stable. However, one should have good knowledge when it comes to it because sometimes, you have to use the command line for troubleshooting. For unseen problems, you sometimes need to dig deep to troubleshoot.
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Domingos Francisco
IT Administrator at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We have been able to reduce the amount of time between implementations and the number of systems needed which has allowed us to focus that time somewhere in our organization.
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reviewer1266792
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The vSphere plataform allow us to consolidate our datacenter and give us more availability.
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Trevor Napier
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
vSphere has improved our organization by far, and it's hard to even quantify. The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous. We are still in the process of converting physical to virtual, but we are getting there.
The mission critical apps that we use for our system are for monitoring different meters throughout households in the greater area in which we operate.
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Robert Cox
Systems Engineer at Vestmark inc
Between vMotion and all the HA, it has made my life a lot easier, and similarly for a lot of my colleagues, and my boss.
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Ayodeji Ariyo
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have seen a good 20-30 percent performance boost for our apps. Our underlying infrastructure is a full HPE shop. We've gone to full SSD drives at this point, so by doing that we have actually gotten a good performance boost.
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Raden Evangelista
Systems Engineerineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
We are able to replicate and create customer environments. We can do an upgrade path in production and see what the expectations of the upgrade will be on production by testing it in the lab internally first. Then, once everything is approved by the customer and it works well, we can roll it out to production. Therefore, the downtime is planned.
The solution is simple and efficient to manage. With VMotion, I don't have to worry about resources. It can move things around. For example, I use Confluence and JIRA as part of our documentation to establish a process within the app.
View full review »- Reduction in hardware/software needs for datacenter
- Elimination of specialized hardware to enable lights out data center
- Improved utilization of purchased hardware (CPU and Memory)
- Increased DR/BC capabilities
- Removed hardware dependency
- Work load portability (vmotion) between on premise – cloud
- Burst to cloud capability
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Patrick Ringelberg
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I’ve been working with VMWare for at least 10 years, so I can say that the loss that you have with virtualization has dropped – you have less loss than if you would run it on real hardware. It went from around 30% to 15%, so basically better by half. And it improves with every version.
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Thang Le Toan (Victory Lee)
CIO at Robusta Technology & Training
We have used the following functions:
1. Hypervisor: to ensure that the virtual server provide web and email services to the company, thus providing a stable operation a with single sign-on integration of an AD server and vCenter.
2. Network and Storage: centralized data server software and user virtualization using ThinApp or installed into the Catalog on VDI, to help increase the security of its IT systems therefore saving time operating workstations.
3. VDI: help focus resource systems, build systems, and workstations with specific software for each organization within the company to ensure effective use, such as:
- Labs Dept.
- Demos for Marketing Dept.
- 3D web design, office applications provide access via web browsers or mobile devices.
Also, we have a CRM system and helpdesk support portal to help record information and interact with customers. Additionally, customers will be directed to the support of technical assistance from experts of VMware and Microsoft. (Redhat and Citrix Xen we do not know how this will work yet).
We use the standard system Helpdesk Support TOR, SOW and ISO 27005 information security for customers in order to put an automated customer feedback for the ticket or marked escalation answered to ensure support complete time appointments.
View full review »Has kept our business running with very little downtime and our clusters balanced with DRS/HA. We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running. It has also given us the HA capabilities for our vCenter servers using the new built-in HA option for the appliance and never having to worry about downtime.
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Stephen Krujelskis
Senior System Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Benefits of vSphere: It saves me a ton of time, I can really quickly spin up new things to test them out or to respond to a need from the business. The way that it improves the way that the organization functions is that it makes us a lot quicker to respond to the needs of the business.
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Preston Lasebikan
Lead Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
As a connection for our business, it goes hand-in-hand. It being the only hypervisor that runs on top of Apple hardware the way we want it, there is no "us" without that.
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Rob Pease
IT Director at Jewish Family Service
It saves us a lot of money.
View full review »So much easier to back things up now. We had Oracle, SQL, everything was just a one-off, but we now have just one process for all our VMs.
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reviewer1081776
Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
vSphere has absolutely improved the way our organization functions. This is because of the ease of management and the number of servers that we are able to virtualize. When we first went to VMware, we took 200 physical servers and converted them to virtual. Instead of running on 200 pieces of hardware, they were running on 8.
Obviously, this is much easier to manage from a hardware perspective, power perspective, and reliability perspective.
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Charlie Karam
Chief Technology Officer at Motor City Stamping Inc
We have reduced maintenance and power consumption, as well as the recovery time that is required for any failures.
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Marcus Hall
Senior Automation Specialist at Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco
It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures.
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Muhammad Tanvir Ashraf
Systems and Network Administrator at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC
We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources.
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Luis Gomez
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space.
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ITAnalysac7f
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier, which was previously a pain.
I find the solution simple and efficient to manage. It is not rocket science. It is easy to install and maintain. I didn't need to read a lot of books. The solution is quite handy.
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Tom Pine
Lead Administrator at Comcast
It's awesome. It works. It does exactly what we want it.
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John_Jones
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
It rides our entire corporate network. Everything inside of our corporate Windows domain (e.g., domain controller, database files, etc.) rides inside VMware.
In the last three years, we have moved from a physical to a virtual environment. We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back.
View full review »VMware-based solutions are designed for the consolidation of servers. Also, since we had to expand our market globally to support the expense of running our vITA program, we had to come up with a delivery method to teach these courses anywhere in the world.
By using Horizon View's virtual desktop technology as the portal for participants to gain access to our virtual lab environment along with use of live online meeting tools (currently we use Adobe Connect), we became early adopters of the course delivery method now known as VILT (Virtual Instructor Led Training).
View full review »The largest benefit for my companies that have used this is the consolidation of our physical server footprint. Never would I thought I could run as many VMs on a single host as we do today.
View full review »In the past without virtualization, it normally took several hours to get a new server built, including cabling, racking and OS imaging. Now we can use templates with many OS flavours and we can get a new server running in few minutes.
View full review »With vSphere, we were able to consolidate just about every workload, server or desktop, which in turn allowed us to save a lot on hardware, power, and space. Also, of course, deploying new desktops and servers in minutes is a definite time saver.
View full review »Being able to itemize by using vApps, vApplications, to do starter priorities so that way if you had dependent NFS and database mounts, applications won't come up prior to that. If you're a one man shop it allows you to turn things on in a way that most people would have to sit there and wait for the next one to go up and the next one and watch the console. Peace of mind, that's what we really use VMware for.
View full review »The ability to build machines on the LAN as the business needs them, and the ability to have good DR and HA, with no hardware that can cause issues. If we go down, we have another host with very little downtime.
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Blake Grover
System Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would think there has been a performance boost. I don't know exactly what percentage, but maybe five to ten percent.
For benefits for the organization, I don't know if they see a big difference, other than that performance boost, but I do know that it helps the engineers who work on the back-end to be able to manage the VMs; and improved access and experience for the engineers is a big improvement.
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SystemAd3999
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't seen a performance boost at all because we haven't been using the product long enough to be able to fairly evaluate it. But I have no complaints with the performance at this point.
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NetworkAa4a7
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's a big difference compared to having everything on hardware. In that situation, if you want to change memory, you have to bring your system down, open up the box, put new memory in - or a new processor, or any other hardware changes you want to make. With VMware, you may have to bring it down to make some changes, but then it's right back up again in a few minutes. It's a lot easier than if it was hardware.
View full review »Work life balance as systems administrators got flexibility, robustness, scalability of current infrastructure.
View full review »It allows multiple VM servers to live and move across several hosts, as resources change.
View full review »VM cloning speed is excellent and has allowed me to provide easy of use and speed when cloning one or more VM's using PowerCli.
View full review »It enables us to move faster when we're going through the legacy systems. Before vSphere, someone had to wait between one and three months to get service which we can now implement in ten minutes.
View full review »Engineering new solutions in a difficult task. Working for a university, the student experience is our number one priority. Solutions can be tested in all manner of environments before deployment and go through rigorous testing before going live thanks to VMware's Redirect-On-Write snapshot technology.
View full review »We’ve been able to consolidate our footprint and decreased the number of hardware hosts we were running.
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Rajesh Mehta
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
vSphere is easy to integrate with multiple third-party tools. We're using Carbonite, for example, for migration. We are also using vSphere and vCenter for integrating with a CA product.
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Walmik Wankhede
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
It is very beneficial with low space and easy manageability. Due to this product, we have saved space, energy, and durability. We have a lot of VLANs for different floors and services. This requires different VMs all implemented in one place.
Users get tremendous speed. As an admin, I found it's usable to manage all services from a single location or point. We have already implemented private cloud, so in an emergency users can work from home. It's suitable for all users.
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Tim Crabtree
Internship Student at NA
Consolidation and normalization.
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Reviewer3064
Head - Server and Storage at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
When checking the utilization reports, the operational reporting and matrixes are a little weak. In terms of what has been the starting growth or trend analysis is something which, currently they have an add-on which we have not used because it's an add-on product, which we have not bought. As of now, they have this capability but I've not seen these features to be more integrated on the base product itself rather than having as a special add-on.
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Sajag Chaturvedi
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer
The product has improved the organization in terms of the infrastructure stability and security, balancing the resources, and providing cost saving. The cost savings and the TCO with vSphere are very good.
We are using our vSphere for our new workloads in terms of Federation Services as well as for our VDI workloads. These are mission critical for us because they are the customer-facing.
View full review »It saves us a lot of money on physical infrastructure through virtualization. Also, you can roll back in case a machine crashes. That saves a lot of money and time. It also saves physical space, energy, and it removes physical limitations, with virtualization you can go anywhere in the world.
View full review »While using its HA feature, we don’t need to worry about usage of servers. Our VM automatically shifts to another server which has resources using vMotion. VDS provides its NIC which is available on all ESXis. You have to configure it one time at Center level and after that you don't need to worry about any ESXi configuration or its failure. When DRS or HT transfers your VM to another host, then that VM will get the same NIC via VDS.
View full review »It provides us a global standardization, ease of management on a global level, and helps our remote sites for those who don’t have a sufficient tech level.
The core savings is huge and allows for quick and deep provisioning. It’s getting harder and harder to remember how physical servers work.
View full review »It has reduced the space, and power utilization, as well as allowing a much more efficient way to increase/decrease the server inventory.
View full review »Using vSphere, we have more confidence that the virtual servers are secured with the HA feature.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- On a basic level you can have one server perform the functions for a whole small business
- On a scalability level, you can simply setup with the right hardware effective failover functionality
With the ability to create multiple server guests on one physical host platform, we were able to create servers in a faster response time, at a cheaper cost, less operational time and the ability to automate tasks to name a few. Also, this infrastructure gave us the capability to expand into a separate self provisioning development environment by utilizing the vCloud technology.
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reviewer1362096
Pré-vendas at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Visualizing infrastructure is a very important aspect of what we do. VMware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market. It's the go-to choice for about every customer that we deal with.
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Jason Place
Systems Security Administrator at Twin River Casino
A gold standard of server virtualization.
View full review »vSphere has been deployed in many of our customers. It improves drastically DC consolidation and proper use of available resources. At present, virtualised customers are still far from fully leveraging the potential of vSphere in part due to lack of expertise and fully understanding the concepts of virtualisation from an architecture point of view. It also improved resiliency and ease of asset management as most customers were able to reduce role segregation and have seen an opportunity for having DevOps since human resources became more available due to some degree of automation.
View full review »The biggest advantage is that it cuts costs. A few years ago, I worked in an environment of all physical servers. It was very expensive to maintain high availability with them. vSphere cuts that cost.
No more lengthy physical server server restores. When this product is coupled with Veeam Backup and replication restoring whole virtual machine or individual files or active directory objects virtually happen in minutes.
It's allowed us to consolidate 150 physical servers down to six servers with 150 VM's running on top. That's the biggest impact to our environment.
View full review »It is hugely more efficient for daily monitoring, patching and upgrades and deploying new machines. With more than 100 servers we would have a couple of full time folks just for patching! Server reboots during business hours are far less disruptive to the end users. We are also in the midst of a large e-commerce project and vSphere has allowed us a ton of flexibility with development and test environments that we wouldn’t have in a physical environment. A lab environment that very closely mirrors production was far easier to design and build than the physical lab we had been struggling with for years.
View full review »The automation that it provides is the best. Also cost savings, because you don’t have to go with third-party solutions as long as you have people with the ability to script within your enterprise. Then, you can create your own tools and access APIs very easily.
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reviewer1016370
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware.
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David Chief
Works
This solution offers an easy OS upgrade and safe migration in a live environment, where downtime is extremely costly.
View full review »I use this solution on AWS, which is pretty standard. It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security.
View full review »The HTML 5 is valuable in the measure of time saved, day by day.
View full review »A good example is that we had improved organizational functions by providing much more IT services with the same IT staff. It is also worthy to mention that the quality of our services considerably increased. This infrastructure helps us to maintain the data center in the agricultural sector. Also, providing VDS/VPS services to different customers bring some additional profit to our organization.
View full review »Obviously, it brought with it many of the unique things that any virtualization technology provides, such as High Availability and trimming down costs and data center space requirements. It helped us develop some of our most important and complex infrastructure projects, such as: VDI, Internal Cloud (IaaS for internal Dev Teams), Data Center Clustering with good High Availability potential, etc.
View full review »Its allowed us to reduce the time needed to bring onboard new services. For example, we migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, the flexibility of running a virtualised environment allowed us to quickly build new servers to test, this is something that would have taken considerably longer using physical hardware, with VMware, we were able to tailor the system spec without having to scramble around for memory, drives CPU’s etc. This ultimately reduced the time to complete the migration.
View full review »We’ve consolidated over $10 million for licenses, $12.2 million in maintenance, and $10.3 million in labor costs – it's a tremendous cost-saving.
View full review »The disaster recovery solution is so much better to use, to bring systems back up. I’m one person, so I’m managing 22 servers on one set of hosts, and it’s so much easier when I can do it on just one.
View full review »We are constantly updating and migrating systems here in my current company. With this product, we can run parallel systems with a low cost and without impacting our customers. With this solution, we can provide more resources, cheaper, quickly, and still keep the integrity and quality of our services.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
VMWare vSphere has really helped us grow as a business, and going for a virtual backup solution has made my life so much easier.
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Josh Abercrombie
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We run 3,000 VMs. It works for what we need it to do. All of our retail point-of-sale stuff, the back-end for that, is on VMware. We're retail, so everything is run in virtual.
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Bobby Shirley
Desktop Support Specialist at Bank Independent
It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized.
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ITInfras287c
IT Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It decreased our overhead for our data center sizing, and it also increased our productivity by being able to deploy applications in a much more timely manner. We have also seen performance boosts. Although I can't give you an accurate number, I would estimate it at about a 40 percent increase.
The most important accomplishment was the cost savings that were achieved by server consolidation and eliminating dependency on the physical server's environment. This also facilitated our disaster recovery by easy replication of the VM images from one site to another.
View full review »- Reduces the data center footprint: Fewer servers and less power consumption
- Reduces the overall footprint of your entire data center
By engaging virtualization and vSphere's advanced features, we've started to effectively manage workload and resources, resulting in better performance with fine grained tuning.
View full review »The best improvement overall is the ability to rapidly provision servers due to the decoupling of servers from physical hardware. We have saved countless hours of time at the data centers racking and stacking servers.
We have v5.5 in production, and v6 in test.
As we are resellers of VMware, we will be migrating customers to v6 in the future. This is to keep in line with new features and better performance in new versions
View full review »It's opened up new services for us that we can offer to our customers. We've moved all our secondary products to virtual environments, so we're able to offer other physical hardware, and have our system simplified.
View full review »Instead of having one application for every physical host, we can run 30-40 on the same physical host.
View full review »In my current role, VMware has been used to reduce the overall physical footprint of the environment as well as ease the management aspect of all the virtual environments we used to house. In previous roles, it not only improved the aforementioned pieces but it also improved availability time lines in a significant fashion.
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Michael Perry
Vice President at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees
Exponentially easier to manage servers.
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We have less physical servers to monitor and put under warranty.
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reviewer1752153
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It has facilitated the adoption of DevOps practices and technology.
View full review »It helps to automate the data replication and DR.
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Orhangazi Yıldırım
System Architect at KT Bank
Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages.
View full review »We have a lot of customers that use VFRC, so the ability to put that together and now, with 6.7, to have full multipathing support, we do a lot of fiber channel work, we do a lot of fiber channel support. That makes it really easy with some of our own items to get them out there to the customers who need them.
The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us. All of that has helped improve our organization.
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SystemsAe086
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Going from a purely physical environment before, we have seen a performance value boost. It also gives us greater flexibility and it allows us to adapt to our environment much more quickly than a standard hardware solution would.
View full review »It brings everything together under one umbrella and allows a smaller organization without a separate administrator for disk, network, host, or server to have centralized, single-pane-of-glass management. It has a much easier interface than a lot of the other tools I've worked with and gives us a better centralization of services.
View full review »Allows for substantial increase in server density, reduced spin up times, allows for more remote site management. Recoverability in a server crash situation is substantially improved as well.
View full review »Hypervisor & Management in the new vCenter Server 6 with Platform Services Controller gives us a huge opportunity for scalability. It's also helped improve our SSO functionality with one click.
View full review »Recovery from hardware failures is easier than before, growth is much easier, and it's very easy to scale out.
View full review »We’re able to leverage it for our main corporate IT infrastructure and deploying across nine smaller remote offices. We can cluster storage and make it HA-aware, and don’t need local IT staff at remote office.
View full review »- Response time to all areas of our company.
- Server deployment, SLA, everything was accelerated rapidly.
- Testing environment, templates, storage usage, all areas were enhanced.
It has allowed us to provide services to our customers more efficiently than ever. Combined with HP Cloudsystem Matrix, it has become standard with our customers.
View full review »In the past, many organizations had many physical servers, and with VMWare we can consolidate many servers without compromising on the performance. We can save a lot of space in the data center. It also helps us to save power that, at this time, is a very important factor. With VMWare, we can use all the resources available on the servers without losing CPU or memory resources, and we can centralize the space into just one storage space.
In many areas of IT, you can use VMWare solutions. Here we have many applications running on the VMware vSphere, such as Oracle Database, MySQL, SQL, web applications, Apache, and many more. For all solutions of course, it depends on how the applications work, but until to day, I haven't observed any applications that won't work inside the vSphere infrastructure.
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Daniel Aramayo
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.
It made provisioning servers and application a lot easier and faster
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ReviewerP859
Head of Technological Architecture at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents.
View full review »vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations.
View full review »It's made us a lot more agile. We don't have to acquire new hardware just to bring it up or utilize new services for our customers. It makes it a lot easier for my team to allocate resources for the other business teams at the company.
View full review »We have reduced our number of physical servers from 180 to 20, saving us cost and resources in our data center.
View full review »We started moving to a virtual environment using VMWare very early on, and now more than 80% of our servers are virtual. We had a big server farm before, and our data center was filled with servers, now all our servers fit in one rack. Also, on physical machines increasing resources is a very difficult task, requiring downtime, but with VMs, we can do it on the fly.
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NetworkA3fbb
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
Virtualization has made it easier for us to manage our environment. We can manage it from location, the vSphere web client.
We find the solution simple and efficient to manage.
View full review »We can bring up brand new servers with a couple of mouse clicks when it used to take a couple of days.
View full review »It provides not just cost savings, but also peace of mind. I go back to the proven track record as it's the world-class, gold standard above and beyond the competition.
View full review »The simplicity of deployments, the speed to market with our application portfolios, the ability to give our developers the ability to quickly provision or stand up in an environment without having somebody to hold their hand.
View full review »We have saved money, reducing the number of physical machines. I probably would have had a couple hundred machines and I now have about thirty.
View full review »On the server virtualization side, we’re able to provide more services with less resources because we can take one server, virtualize it, and put 12 virtualized machines on it, and have them play different roles. It’s allowed us to do more with less.
View full review »- Application protection
- Load balancing
- Protection against network/host failure
Thanks to vSphere we have improved our availability and scalability, and we are now able to dynamically move to a cloud paradigm. vSphere for us, is not a simple computer virtualization; it provides a complete infrastructure which combines computer storage, and networking elements in a single software layer, that we are calling SDDC.
Previously, we thought it was a simple server consolidation, where bulk and power consumption were drastically reduced. Now we are moving to a software-defined storage and software-defined networking to keep control of all IT environment, from service to a single infrastructure components.
We hope to keep all the physical datacenter elements under the same software layer, and we are hoping that that dream will comes true in the next years.
View full review »- Fast server provisioning
- Saves energy
- It's green
- Improves disaster recovery
I have configured our environment in a way by which it will ease the process of provisioning the VMs by using automation workflows within the VMware environment.
Disaster recovery is very much helpful for any business where you require a maximum uptime or minimal downtime. We have two environments configured, hosted in two different locations, so if we encounter a disaster at one site, the network infrastructure will switch to the other site with minimal downtime (maximum 15 minutes).
View full review »Before virtualization, my company had 20-25 physical server, with one or more services each. These servers were placed in three to four racks.
Now we handle 500 servers (VM's) in half a rack, meaning only 16 physical servers. This solution improves cost, manageability, and growth.
View full review »Faster server deployment.
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reviewer1739175
VMware PSO Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Our organization has seen plenty of benefits from this solution. We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations. For the end-users and customers, it's beneficial because they can run whatever they want in a matter of minutes or hours instead of providing a data center for themselves and running whatever they need. Thanks to all the solutions altogether, it is possible to move the workload and it has high availability in different time zones and different regions.
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sedson52
Lead System Engineer at MITRE Corporation
It provides more efficient use of compute resources through virtualization, making our infrastructure more cost-effective. It makes deployment and management of resources easier so that we can be more agile in our projects.
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Sree Kumar
Infrastructure Manager at Petrolink
This solution provides production uptime with its DRS and failover features.
View full review »The fact that we are having faster server deployments has improved our organization. We are also have better security for development projects and are seeing easier backups.
View full review »The main improvement we found is the simplification of configuration. No more SAN configuration is required; no more complex configuration of LUN and presentation to the VMware infrastructure.
View full review »The more visible example is the performance seen by the user in my DaaS product.
View full review »The cost savings in itself from having to buy 15 servers in each hotel. Now we have one server for each hotel. When we release our new applications, we don’t have to invest in new infrastructure, we just scale because its already in place. We're on a five-year lifecycle so we can scale for five years with no further investments.
View full review »Reliability, it just runs without you worrying about it all the time. I don’t have to tweak it, don’t have to really do anything. It’s easy to use as well.
View full review »The ability to perform consolidation and it's portability, flexibility, and DR capability.
View full review »We've used it to implement a virtual datacenter server for in-house applications and services and have achieved a green and efficient virtual datacenter.
After consolidating all the physical machines in our datacenter onto vSphere, we have also achieved faster server provisioning. With the help of templates, we have reduced the time from weeks to several minutes and, therefore, we can provide services for other departments nearly instantaneously.
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Huy Le Quang
Cloud Professional Architect at FPT Software
- High availability causes downtime service because it is needed to reboot VMs.
- Fault tolerance is limited by the four vCPUs.
- The service provider is not easy to integrate via API like OpenStack.
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Justin Melton
Engineering Manager at Turnkey Cyber Solutions
We are distributed across the nation and are primarily all remote employees. I was able to build our private cloud with the tool.
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ITProfes763a
IT Professional with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have seen a boost in performance in terms of delivery, but in everyday work, it's just like any other. Our delivery lift is probably more than 50 percent.
In terms of delivery, very often we would have requests for adding some new applications which were not previously there. And in previous deliveries, we would have to lose a day or so to prepare the application. Today it takes me about two hours at the most.
View full review »Less space is need. It reduces the space of the infrastructure in the data center. The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure.
View full review »If you compare the trend of each version, you can see that the practical features add to this product's value.
View full review »From an organizational point of view, it allows us to give a lot of services to our customers. This is true of all VMware products that we purchase. We make sure that our business ultimately benefits from it.
View full review »- Hardware abstratction (lets us refresh easier)
- Storage
- DRS
From a compute and storage perspective, we're able to use our resources much more efficiently.
View full review »We now have a quicker deployment of machines, as it’s been far more cost effective than our physical servers with a smaller footprint.
View full review »We now have 200 virtual machines because building a machine is so easy that anyone can do it. Now, our answer is "yes" for any requests for new VMs.
View full review »We are a small company so having a solution that bring the costs as low as possible is the most valuable thing.
View full review »It saves me time, and at the end of the day, that’s it for me.
View full review »I had 300 physical servers, but now I need only six. It’s less noisy, much cheaper, and has less of a tendency to get hot.
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As a Tech Mktg Engineer, this product helps us develop test environments quickly.
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Central management, easy deployment, easy management. This simplifies IT management processes and cuts on project costs and power/data center costs.
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Yan BENOIST
Entrepreneur at WindiS
Virtualization changes radically the IT landscape. Rare are our customers who have not implemented it. vSphere is #1 in hypervisors and offers the flexibility and the fastness our customers need.
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Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
It was brilliant to consolidate systems, and it provided the best way of doing it at the time, as far as I was aware.
View full review »- Agility and availability
- Near-zero downtime
- Incredibly easy to use - good on one hand, but on the other, it means that when you get outside use cases, they usually target for vSphere, and you can set yourself on fire. For basic install on autopilot, it does what it does, but if you want to do something inherently complex, move out of the realm of easiness.
The solution has helped us to achieve the following:
- Faster time to market our services
- Lower overall TCO
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Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs. Previously, we did not have this option.
View full review »We have migrated several databases based on the Oracle VM solution to VMWare as we've seen a great difference between these two products.
View full review »In general, VMware improves the way almost every business using it operates. Server virtualization cuts down on operating costs by a lot, makes servers easier to manage, and offers increased redundancy.
View full review »Less downtime for all end users, so if it fails you can get it up on the other machine quickly.
View full review »We have around 200 virtualized servers, so while if we had to buy 200 physical servers, it would cost a lot more compared to what we spend.
View full review »The ability to consolidate and portability, flexibility, and DR. The management thereof is a single pane of glass.
View full review »We were able to centralize the server farm, thus able to focus administrators on their immediate tasks, reduce response time to incidents, concentrate the informational flows, facilitate the task of data protection.
View full review »It's helped us to include automatization in all processes, thus reducing maintenance hours and increasing energy savings.
View full review »- Smaller footprint
- Ease of keeping uptime
- Reliability
When I came, it was already being used, but it helps with consolidation of our 750 machines. We have 50 ESXi hosts, and they’re all consolidated, being able to share memory, computing.
As a partner we have VSPP (VMware Service Provider Program in which we pay per memory usage).
View full review »vSphere is a core product in our services. Building our services on top of this product provides us the ability to create stable, enterprise level services.
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ITManageb049
IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees
We use it to incorporate our infrastructure around one product.
View full review »As a consultant and service company, we can manage our own infrastructure with minimal effort, deploy new applications very quickly, and do tests very easily.
View full review »I think in our own way, it has it made the administration a lot easier, reduced maintenance time and made us more flexible in terms of large and quick deployments.
View full review »We save power and monty. Virtual servers are much faster than physical servers, so personnel costs and investment costs are also much lower.
View full review »Higher return on investment, reduced cost of hardware, and central management which is key. The most important part is that it's nimble – I can deploy a server in minutes.
View full review »- It's saved us costs for power and cooling.
- It's given us automation capabilities for server provisioning and management of configurations.
It reduces the time needed to roll out new solutions. Also, it provides a single platform for our API integrations.
View full review »It's much easier to manage than a pile of hardware.
We are also able to roll out new ideas to the users quicker.
View full review »I work on it daily and it's easy to build VM's and take snapshots. I can also test the VM's as much as I want.
View full review »With VMWare virtualization environment; deploying servers; backing, replication and restoration are done in a matter of minutes.
View full review »With VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter, we have a high-performance and stable virtual platform for converting 10 plus physical machines into few virtual machines.
View full review »Cross vCenter vMotion can be particularly useful if you have migration projects, or you simply want to shift workloads to different location.
It can be particularly useful if you have plans to move from a VCSA to a Windows Platform vCenter and vice-versa.
If you have shared resources with public/private cloud, you can move them by establishing several vCenters.
View full review »It has helped organise computing into more logical groups, instead of random physical servers all over the place. It has also made the provision of new servers quicker and easier, allowed the space to build proper development infrastructure and also allows quick decommissioning.
View full review »There's a lot of expertise within the legal industry for VMware, and we’re early adopters of VMware since 2.0.
Also, we can spin up VMs within hours instead of going through a paper trail of physical servers and install process. This has drastically reduced our procurement timeline.
View full review »- Reduces the size and cost of our physical data center.
- It gives us a smaller footprint, and we can do more with less.
It uses less data-room space, and has lower cost and power consumption, giving us much bigger cost savings.
View full review »It allows us to be flexible-- every time we need a new server we don’t need a new physical box.
View full review »We have many power outages and VMware is very reliable in terms of dealing with that kind of experience on a regular basis.
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WindowsSbd99
Windows Systems Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
It meets all of our needs.
View full review »It allowed us to move from a physical environment to a virtual environment. It also allowed us to install much more of the hardware, i.e., up to 30+ virtual machines on a single physical server.
View full review »It's really helped us out with our testing and development.
View full review »- We spend less money on hardware.
- We're able to get better use of data center space because our hardware is consolidated into a smaller footprint.
- Very flexible and scalable SDN solution
- We can add hypervisors with VNX and switches for a CSA fabric solution; it's very flexible for that
- We can scale up Nexus switches for ACI (application centric infrastructure)
It's helped bridge business requirements into infrastructure. Because of the cut down in provisioning time, we’ve proved that VMs are valuable as assets, and helps establish trust between business partners and IT department.
View full review »It simplifies the management of VMs of our 30 VMs. It's helped with disaster recovery, and we use EMC for disaster recovery, but it's managed with vCenter.
We moved the disaster recovery location from one state to another, and VMs helped us so that we didn’t have to move physical servers.
View full review »It simplifies the management of VMs of our 30 VMs. It's helped with disaster recovery, and we use EMC for disaster recovery, but it's managed with vCenter.
We moved the disaster recovery location from one state to another, and VMs helped us so that we didn’t have to move physical servers,
View full review »We have managed to reduce the number of our physical servers dramatically.
It now has an easier configuration, so new server deployments don't take much time anymore.
Also, we're getting much less out-of-work-hour calls.
View full review »Reduced TCO through the elimination of physical servers into virtual servers.
View full review »Previously we used one server per application, this product has increased our hardware utilization.
View full review »It has reduced our costs.
View full review »It's improved our functioning in three areas:
- Deployment
- Backup
- Disaster Recovery
One of the benefits is that you can just deploy a virtual machine and any environment you want in seconds.
View full review »- Scalability
- Cost reduction
- Efficient resource utilization
They understand end-user needs and provision tools that let us do day-to-day deployments and enhancements. It’s a product that continues to grow based on customer needs.
View full review »Our DR count changed – we had quite a few power outtages that opened our eyes to DR and by leveraging vSphere we are able to get to our goal.
View full review »This product has help to reduce the number of physical x86 servers from 500 to 150. This has saved server hardware costs, data center floor space, power, and cooling. This has significantly reduced the CAPEX cost.
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Server consolidation and Research work.
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We are beginning to experience less downtimes and if there is going to be any downtime, it is extremely minimised. Continously consolidating servers and utilising resources to save power and water.
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We're now able to provision new servers faster and have the option to perform snapshots prior to implementing changes.
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virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
As I work as a consultant for Advania Sweden, I meet a lot of different customers with different challenges. But all customers can agree that delivery time for a server resource to the organization has been reduced from weeks to minutes.
With High Availability, we have had only one incident where one of the hosts failed, and the VMs were moved immediately. It took about four minutes to complete migration, thus affecting operations minimally.
View full review »Better management of the virtual infrastructure
View full review »Service up time has increased significantly. Having servers that are not hardware dependent has changed the way we offer solutions.
View full review »Less time is needed to go live for workloads. We have, therefore, been able to increase our efficiency and that of the virtual infrastructure.
View full review »Time, it saves me time. It’s also much easier to manage.
View full review »We have been able to consolidate 70-80 physical servers into much smaller ESXi virtual servers. We’ve reduced our footprint to a much smaller virtual environment.
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Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Our business has been able to consolidate fleets of physical servers to virtual servers, and is able to respond to changing business needs quickly.
View full review »After implementing VMware alongside some HP solutions, the total ownership cost was reduced significantly, and operational time was also reduced, which resulted in increased productivity and efficiency.
View full review »We migrated our storage from IBM DS4700 & V7000 to VNX 5400 smoothly through storage vMotion.
View full review »Its ability to tie into Veeam is really slick – that makes using Veeam really easy.
View full review »Primarily, we've been able to save on energy costs. It also gives us easier migrations when upgrading infrastructure.
View full review »One particular example is the ability to work less on weekends because of the possibility to patch during normal working hours.
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