VMware vSphere Initial Setup
Egor Marachev
IT systems engineer at VeriFone
The initial setup was very easy and intuitive.
If I didn't understand something, this solution provides tons of information,e explanations, courses, and instructions on their website. We also live in a reality of chatbots and AI, so everything is very easy to set up.
it_user171321
Sr. System Engineer VMW Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees
It is somewhat straightforward except for the vCenter server and SQL database ODBC. You need to use SQL ODMC client v10. Windows server 2008 R2 did not come with an older version. You need to download sqlncli driver v10.
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SigfridCecillon
Director at Arsium
The initial setup is easy. It is intuitive-- Next. Next. Next. Next. Finish. Easy. Great.
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March 2024
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
Our initial setup was outsourced, possibly it wasn't that complicated. Because it was outsourced, the consultant made it easy for us.
After the initial setup, the subsequent ones were relatively easy for us. We trained in the VMware settings for the hardware. Depending on the part of the initial setup, we had older models of servers than we had new models. For the initial setup for the older models, we employed a consultant that did it for us. We implemented the newer models ourselves last year.
We consulted with HP to do the initial setup for us which was relatively cheap. We did the integration of the old and the new servers. Running the new server models with our VMware vSpehere license, we used our own local resources to do that work.
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NipunaNakandala
Senior System Engineer at V S Indormation Systems
I rate the initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where ten means that the setup was a very easy process.
The solution is deployed on the public cloud and hybrid cloud.
The tool's deployment phase takes time, as it is not a quick process. The tool's deployment phase takes a few days to be completed.
Prince Verma
Cloud Infrastructure consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We have deployed the solution on-premises. The solution has a private cloud, too. There are no hybrid connections available. The initial setup is not difficult, but it is not easy. A normal user cannot do it. We need the expertise to install bare metal. The installation is easy if we know the configuration criteria.
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Endalkachew Admasu
Manager of Computing and Storage at CBO
The initial setup is very easy and takes half an hour to complete, but it is costly since it has training costs and tutorials. The 3 tutorials are included in this package. They somewhat automate, but it's not enough.
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Johan Odendaal
Server Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
If all your hardware requirements are met, it is a relatively simple implementation. However, you have to have the boxes ticked in terms of connectivity, capacity, and all that sort of stuff. The actual VMware part of it is not the biggest complication of everything now.
We handle maintenance ourselves. My team consists of five people, and of those, only one of them really works on the maintenance of the hardware and the software. It doesn't take a lot of personnel.
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Kim Dijkstra
Technical manager at Koninklijke Bam Groep N.v.
Setting up VMware vSphere is very straightforward; no issues there. Purchasing involves acquiring licenses and the licenses often come bundled with hardware from vendors like HP or Dell. The deployment process is smooth, and support hasn't been necessary as the software is stable. For deployment and maintenance, we currently have about four or five active staff members involved. However, considering buying expertise and engineers, the team can range from nine to ten individuals.
Abbasi Poonawala
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
There are two ways of installing it, depending on your deployment topology. Overall, it's quite fast and easy to install. It only takes a couple of days to install it.
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Senior Systems Analyst at Manufacturing Organization
The environment has changed hands several times over the years. Currently, I work to architect any new deployments but I was not involved in the initial bringing in of GSX, when the company first adopted virtualization, roughly 10 years ago. I have turned the environment over two or three times since I've been here. Now we have new staff in my group who are constantly evolving and changing with the adoption of new architecture and business cases for the Hypevisor and other products in the suite that complement it.
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Martin Coloumbe
IT Solution Architect at KnowledgeOne
The learning curve to actually get used to the product and know the product properly is fairly steep. I have been working with this solution for the last ten years, so it is not a new solution for me. I couldn't speak to today's onboarding process because I haven't onboarded in the last year. It has been many years.
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Zack Baraci
Systems Engeneer at Wurth Australia Pty. Ltd.
I rate the tool's ease of deployment a six out of ten. It was quite complex due to various hardware restrictions and issues. We had to address several technical issues with VMware along the way.
I would rate the deployment process as typical regarding time and considerations. However, the migration from on-premises to the cloud was a bit cumbersome. It required a bit of work.
The installation phase took about three months initially when we deployed on-premises. This duration was understandable as we had to virtualize numerous physical servers and handle various complexities. Transitioning to the cloud extended the project timeline to approximately six months.
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Youssef_Hmani
IT INFRASTRUTURE CONSULTANT at Hyfi Cloud Computing
The initial setup is relatively straightforward. I would rate it eight out of ten.
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Sameer Gusain
Technical Lead at Sopra Steria
The initial setup process is straightforward. It takes around four to five hours for end-to-end configuration. We have 60 to 70 engineers to manage the deployment.
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Tommy Myo Min Aung
Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling
The setup process of this solution is very straightforward and easy. For VMware, almost all the data center administrators can be easy to manage and deploy. The installation took less than three or four hours. I did it myself.
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Rangga Kusuma
Head Tim Infrastructure, and IT Security at Lembaga Penjamin SImpanan
The initial setup is easy but the security configuration is complex.
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reviewer1451847
Sr. Systems Engineer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
For the most part, the initial setup is pretty straightforward. If you start getting into the more complex setups, it can get more complex. For most use cases, it's just stick the disk in, let it run, and it sets most of itself up. It's almost out of the box ready.
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AllanTrambouze
Consultant senior en technologie de l'information at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial installation of vSphere 7 is straightforward. If you try the ARM version, it is a little more complex but just follow the step-by-step process and it will work.
For Tanzu, the HR proxy is more complex because you will need to do some network design. For vSAN, VMware gives you a great tool to set your solution up easily.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
I used the profiling feature.
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Fritz RichardQuiras
Cyber Security Engineer at Trend Micro
I would rate the initial setup eight or nine out of ten because of its easy navigation and setup.The deployment takes almost half an hour. Essentially, having the network configuration prepared is crucial, as it often represents the most time-consuming aspect when setting up an environment, whether it's on-premises, in the cloud, or anywhere else. Once the network configuration is in place, the process becomes smoother and more straightforward.
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Francis KACOU
Head of Service and Storage Infrastructure at GS2E
It wasn't difficult. I think I learned it about a month after I started, and I was able to deploy VMware vSphere.
This solution is being maintained by four administrators. We have 2,000 virtual machines, also known as VMs, and 40 host servers. We are a group of four people who do all of the patching and maintenance work.
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reviewer1578723
IT Supervisor at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
It depends on how you're setting vSphere up and deploying it. They've added some products recently like vSAN and a few other things to the base loads. You have to know what you're doing with those, but it works beautifully if you're doing a standard deployment with general IP storage.
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Stefano Panigada
Specialist SE Manager at Dell EMC
I never did an installation, but as per my understanding, it is straightforward.
The number of people required for installation and maintenance really depends on the scale of the project. Usually, one engineer can deploy vSphere very easily.
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Mohamed_Ashraf
Senior Product Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. It is so easy.
The ISO file is available for everyone to download and there is a trial period so if you don't purchase this product, you can try it for free.
We increase our servers every year. So for one server, deployment takes about one hour or less to deploy a product.
There are many strategies to install the product using vCenter. We can make clones from the profile of the server itself so it could take less time.
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Benjamin Hlophe
Director Of Technology Operations at Kutleng Engineering Technologies
Its initial setup is very straightforward. It is very easy to install.
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Stephen Parker
Systems Engineer at BYU Idaho
I was an initial installer and I was actually a beta customer as well. The setup was very straightforward. Compared to the previous versions, it's much easier. You can upgrade from a Mac or a PC or via a web interface.
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Michael Huset
Senior Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my previous job, I was a Senior Systems Administrator for a credit union. We were running VMware 3.0, 12 years ago, and having that experience - and being bleeding edge at that time - helped me really be a catalyst in getting over to virtualization. That knowledge that I had in the past has always helped me, because I've seen VMware grow and do the things that it has done. Having that knowledge was helpful in setting it up from fresh, again: making the redundancies, knowing some of the pitfalls you have when first setting it up, and seeing a lot of the capital that you can lose if you don't understand what you're doing at that time.
I set it up myself. I can get technical support, but I can't have on-prem or anyone else.
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Datacenter Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was staightforward with the ESXi and vCenter upgrades. It worked the very first time.
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HemantJoshi2
TEM Practice at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The installation and initial setup of the solution were simple because we had a team of people already familiar with VMware. Learning a newer version was never difficult for them. They could easily streamline into the newer versions and use them effectively. So, the learning curve was not that high for the team.
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reviewer1158117
Assistant Consultant with 10,001+ employees
We have found the setup process to be simple and straightforward. There wasn't too much complexity or difficulty.
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Ajay Dand
Founder Director at Ninesec Integration Pvt. Ltd
Virtualization is always a challenge. It's never a straightforward task as there are so many variables and parameters to consider. There's nothing straightforward about virtualization. Having said that, vSphere is so widespread and available, that you get access to the knowledge and the resources you need to implement it very easily. In that sense, you don't really have to struggle too much regarding the installation. You get a lot of help, however, you need to know what you're getting into and what you're doing.
We have about three to four engineers who support VMware and then a couple of guys managing customers.
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SenthilKumarGM
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The setup of this solution is very easy now, it was a bit difficult before and now has been simplified.
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reviewer939042
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Getting vSphere set up for the first time is pretty straightforward. The installation process is not that painful. It really guides you through it so it makes it a lot easier, especially if it's your first time doing it.
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Brandon Morris
System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
I was involved with the initial vSphere setup. For the most part, the setup is fairly straightforward. The last time, when we set up the vSphere 6 environment, we went into fully redundant HA platform, services controllers, so I think we chose to make the solution a little bit more complicated than it needed to be. But with 6.5 and 6.7 there are some enhancements and they want all that stuff embedded and the process is a lot simpler and it's a lot easier to get everything going.
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Tommy-Li
Manager for Middleware at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup of the solution is not easy, but it's also not very complex. If you don't have experience working with VMware vSphere, it's pretty hard for you.
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Michael Ogunlade
Head of enterprise systems at Fidelity Bank Plc
It was easy to install. We performed a complete deployment because it was a full MCI, so it required some architecture. I believe it took about a month.
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Luis Arencibia
IT Operations Services Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I did not do the initial setup.
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Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
As mentioned above, a simple setup is not hard. However, there are lot of intricacies to the product to set it up correctly with shared storage, so that fail over can function correctly, and DRS, HA, and vMotion to function efficiently.
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Zahid Eshaque
Managing Director at CompTech Network System Ltd
The deployment is very complex. We cannot design the tool without VMware-certified architects or professionals. We need at least five people for designing, planning, deployment, and maintenance. Maintenance does not require many people. Our operations personnel can maintain it. The deployment takes at least two weeks. The learning curve for operations is not that steep, but the learning curve for deployment is very steep.
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Michael-Kierum
Principal Consultant at Absolute Precision
The initial setup is straightforward for a computer savvy guy. I haven't experienced any bugs or glitches. Our customers are generally small to medium size organizations.
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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It's user-friendly, and it's really easy for a beginner to install. Now, there are appliances that you can deploy directly. So, I think it's very easy compared to that of others in the market. I have deployed it in large environments and even a test environment.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The installation of the product is straightforward. It's really not too complex. All you do is install and click through. You put in your networking and you're done. Out of the box, it's great. However, if you do need to do some configurations, it can get a bit complex.
I did not handle the installation process myself, and therefore can't speak to the actual amount of time it took to deploy.
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Irad Dukad
IT Manager at ducart
The initial setup is not really straightforward or simple to execute.
I didn't do it myself. That would have been a bit much for me. I needed an integrator to do it. It's a bit complex to do.
In terms of the deployment time, when we last did it four years ago, it took about one week to get everything up and running.
We have one technical person on our team that assists with deployment and maintenance. They are an admin.
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Leonardo Shewchenko
Information Technology Support Coordinator at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup is very simple. Even for more complex environments, it's really pretty simple. The available documentation is complete, which helps specialists create more complex solutions in VMware.
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SeniorSyb3f0
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
I've been involved from the beginning until the end. In the early days, before ESX, we worked with what was called GSX, or Ground Storm X. It wasn't easy, but once you got it configured it worked and it did what it was supposed to do. We didn't have any major issues.
It was all self-installed. A lot of it was a matter of reading the directions, following them, and going to "next".
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Monitoring Tools Analyst at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
The environment that I manage now was set up about six years ago. We had an outsourcer (third-party) set it up since we wanted a professional to setup a new technology. He royally screwed it up, and we had to come back, completely rip it up, and restart. VMware had to help us get it back up to speed since that point.
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Ahmad Ali
Infrastructure System Engineer at King Saud University
The initial setup was quite straightforward. It's very simple.
The time it takes to set up will vary, but it will most likely be within a day. You could set up the environment in a day. It is determined by a variety of factors. If it is done by an experienced engineer, it will be done within a day. If not, it will take longer.
We have a team of three engineers to deploy and maintain this solution.
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Ali Gursoy
IT Manager at Cobantur
I find the solution, based on my long history with the product, very easy to set up. It's a pretty straightforward step-by-step process.
Typically, you just need one person to set it up. It only takes maybe an hour or so. Of course, the first time a person does an implementation, they might go slower.
We have two people on the system side and five people on the software side that are capable of working directly with the product.
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reviewer1261665
VMware Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was straightforward and not overly complex. Although it took us a couple of weeks before we installed it, the deployment only took about one day or one and a half days.
We had three engineers that handled the deployment.
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Sid Sharma
Lead QA Analyst at Loomis Express
It is very simple. You just need one person. It takes seconds.
It doesn't require maintenance. Every time we need to upgrade the software or we have a different or higher version, we just create a ThinApp. It takes seconds for the users to get it. It is a very simple process. They just need to close the existing software and reopen it, and they get the updated version.
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Udom In
Information Technology Manager at The Olympia Medical hub
The installation is very easy. It was not complicated at all.
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Vikram Casula
Head Of Infrastructure & Cloud ops at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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RavindraBhojwani
Logistics and product Manager at a security firm with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is straightforward. It takes a normal amount of time to install the operating system.
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Allan Trambouze
Senior Consultant at Cofomo
The initial setup is very straightforward. There isn't any complexity unless you have very old servers, then you won't be able to install the latest version of VMware 6.7 because of TPM.
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reviewer924351
Director, Windows Server Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was involved in the initial setup, back in 2005. Back then it was fairly complex but that's because we were early adopters of it.
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IT Representative at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was fairly easy ONCE the correct/compatible hardware is set up for the host machine. I found the learning curve very minor, as well.
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MinaMagdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
The initial setup is straightforward. VMware is a very, very easy system to implement and to administer, as long as you have at least some sort of experience. You don't need to be an expert but those who have a high-level knowledge of VMware can manage and deliver the crucial tasks.
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Tony Reeves
Network Administrator
I was not initially involved in the vSphere setup at my current company; that predated my joining the company. But I've brought up the secondary environment and integrated vSAN at that company, and setup was straightforward. It's pretty easy to get everything set up and get things done. I've done that many times in production, and torn down and rebuilt the Home Lab many times. It's pretty straightforward.
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Founder Director at Ninesec Integration Pvt. Ltd
The initial setup is straightforward, and not complex at all.
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Ali Yazıcı
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
The installation is easy and can be done in one day.
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MUKUNDKULKARNI
IT Manager at KIRLOSKAR PNEUMATIC CO. LTD.
The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones.
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Mohamed Fathi
IT Manager at pioneers
The initial setup is easy.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward, perfect.
This process for the initial server lasts ten minutes. There is also the console, which involves two parts, one being the server itself. This is where the CD-ROM goes, something which is now on a USB key and does not involve the undertaking of any activity.
Deployment lasts half a day, at which point everything is up and running.
The real question is whether the person wishes to have one server or a hundred. The use of 200 machines will take longer. What I am talking about is small, basic installations.
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ForrestWu
Sr. Manager IT at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is a little complex because of the infrastructure. It's not related to just the one physical server, you need design the storage and networks. There are three different areas.
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Igor Schwarz
Presales Engineer at Emet Computing
It is easy to deploy this solution from nothing.
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Sean Crawford
Information Systems Analyst at San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
I was involved with this design, the procurement, the deployment, and the management.
In terms of complexity, it was very complex for the licensing aspect. That's because in 6.7 it's changed, compared to what I procured years ago with 6.5 and 5.5. It has gotten a little bit more complex, but it's easier once you do it.
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Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
Sr. Operations Engineer at Kamstrup
I was involved in the setup of vSphere. The setup was, in my opinion, very simple. It was very easy to get started.
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Infrastr7d14
Infrastructure with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use the appliances, so the setups are pretty straightforward. Anytime I have to install new test stuff, I never really have much of a problem with it anymore. Obviously, in the past, there were the issues with SSL certificates, but a lot of that has been worked out and the systems are pretty straightforward now.
Upgrades, sometimes, are hit and miss. It depends upon the complexity of the environment. The more side products you are throwing into vSphere, the stickier it can get. I've had upgrades that have failed, but what's really great about using the appliances is that, when the upgrade failed, I just shrugged my shoulders, turned that new box off, turned the old box back on, and kept moving along for a while, until we figured out the issue.
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Manager - System Engineering and Storage at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was fairly straightforward.
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Virtualization Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Involved in the beginning with v2.5, not overly difficult (in ESXi had to come up with some scripts, because at the time it didn’t have a GUI).
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Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It kind of depends; we work with a number of different customers. It’s relatively straightforward, but for complex implementations there can be some complications. They publish all of the necessary installation information so it’s quite easy to find support for deployment.
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reviewer1119762
Information Technology Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is easy to set up. It's not a complex or difficult process at all.
The deployment doesn't take too long. It took us about ten days or so.
We have four engineers that can handle deployment and maintenance tasks.
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PrasadMane
System Advisor IT at CRIF India
The initial setup and installation are straightforward. It is something that can be done by anyone.
In one hour, we can complete the installation and configuration.
Admins are only required to look after the VM portion of the new VM creation as well as the configuration or modification. Aside from that, we have a team of two or three admins to deploy and maintain this solution during their shift time, such as in the morning and afternoon shifts.
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Gabriele-Pizzigati
Senior Software and Systems Engineer at SAMU.IT
A small infrastructure installation can take up to eight hours.
The teams are always the same. We have five technicians, three of whom specialize in networking and virtualization, and one who is a management engineer.
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System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The setup of vSphere is straight forward. I have set up a few vSphere environments.
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Information System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is a wizard. You just need to follow default settings to finish the setup, then it is ready to work with. If you are using a virtual appliance, then the only thing you need to do is import to the ESXi host.
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Chief General Manager at SVC Bank
It was complex because we experimented by keeping data and system volumes separate. We don’t replicate the system volumes frequently. We were able to do it though, and we used only 1/10 of the bandwidth with the combination of FAS and vSphere.
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Program Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Initial setup was easy and any change we make to the environment has been easy. We have made changes to VMWare based on our discoveries. Government usage can be very different than private sector so were able to communicate different feedback from private sector clients.
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Walid Mouamar
Network and Security Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Installation is very easy when it comes to virtualization of machines by the hypervisor. It only takes about 20 minutes.
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reviewer1232400
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The initial setup of VMware was easy. I did not experience any problems or have any difficulty. It took two days to deploy.
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Ryan Dave Brigino
Software Engineer at Es'hailSat
The solution is pretty simple to set up if it's a stand-alone.
We have two departments that have technical teams that can handle maintenance on the solution.
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Jeroen De Jonge
Autodidact Quantum Physics- Quantum mechanics. at IC Consultancy
It was very easy to install. If you have the right piece of hardware or blade server in place, you can use it in a VM where you try XYZ and then install it. You go forward with that and it's ready to install, so it's not a big problem.
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Ganesh Sekarbabu
Windows Virtualization Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
When 5.5 went to 6, we found it a bit difficult because they changed the model.
Now, we are okay. We have gotten used to it, because it is a new platform. Initially, it was difficult, but now we are okay.
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David Grimes
VP of Product Engineering at Navisite
I'm not directly involved in the day-to-day operations of our vSphere environments, but we stand up private vSphere-based clouds on a fairly regular basis. We manage those on a go forward basis in terms of patching, upgrading, etc. Deploying vSpheres is pretty easy. The biggest feature that has made that easier, as compared to three or four years ago, is the vCenter Server Appliance. Its ability to deploy the management plane as a virtual client and bootstrap an ESX environment. That's a big step forward.
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Senior Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was involved in a redesign, which was very straightforward and easy. We just changed the hardware from rack style to blade, expanding all hosts and underlying virtualization layers. It was seemless and customers didn’t notice anything different.
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System Engineer with 10,001+ employees
It's straightforward, as vSphere is a mature product with well-rounded documentation, and an easy-to-understand interface.
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reviewer1390341
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is easy to implement. It is a very good solution.
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Bilal Aslam
Founder & Technology Advisor at EUC Solutions
The initial setup is very easy and there is nothing difficult about it. Initially, some people get stuck when they are setting up the supporting services, like DNS, but other than that, the setup is plain and simple.
The length of time required for deployment depends on whether your disk is an SSD. If so, then the copying will be fast. Also, if you have more memory then it will install quicker.
Regardless of how it is set up, you have to build the basic infrastructure to put in most of your workloads. Sometimes, you manage an existing one but most of the time, we have to deploy a VMware infrastructure.
A single person can basically manage it, although this depends upon the deployment size. If it's a huge deployment, then it requires a good design and it requires proper planning. You need to know your capacity requirements, for example.
If you understand the environment and the design then maybe you can segregate the work into two or three people. Sometimes if it's a small project, a single person can do it. It all depends on the files and complexity of the solution you are providing to the customer.
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Domingos Francisco
IT Administrator at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
The installation is straightforward.
I have recently implemented version seven and I am monitoring the differences from five to seven.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The installation is straightforward because it comes with the appliance, you only have to deploy the appliance. The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation.
All the customers who have the VMware have the vSphere because there is no single installation.
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Karthikeyan Chinnadurai
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The implementation is an easy process for us, which is why we're using VMware cloud as a product. The length of time required for deployment depends on the customer. We need to know their requirements, and then we proposed timelines and inform them accordingly. It is defined by the number of nodes and the number of workloads.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
Its installation was very simple. Because we need to install vSphere on different servers, we do customized installations by using a script. It doesn't take more than 13 minutes to install each server and configure different settings.
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reviewer1266792
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. It's easy.
It takes can take 10 to 15 minutes to deploy a new server into the vSphere platform. It's so easy.
It may take more time for testing and implementation.
Deployment varies, if you are referring to the deployment of the full solution, it includes deploying the vCenter, deploying the servers, the host, and creating our clusters can take up to three hours.
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Trevor Napier
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I've done setups of different versions of vSphere. The latest one was more complex than 6.5, which had an external platform services controller. Now with 6.7, you have an embedded platform services controller, much like 6.5, but you also get the enhanced link mode capability. That was a big shift for me.
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Robert Cox
Systems Engineer at Vestmark inc
It took some time to really research vSphere as a whole, as far as what the best setup would be for our company, for both the present and the future growth of the company, and to correctly size it. There was a lot of research beforehand that needed to be done to get to the appropriate solution. Once that work was done, the actual install and implementation of it were very smooth, for the most part.
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Ayodeji Ariyo
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The NSX part of the setup was fairly complex: Setting up the networks and setting up the VPCs was a little bit challenging, but there was good support from both sides, from the VMware side and AWS side, to get things up and running the proper way, and that helped a lot.
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Raden Evangelista
Systems Engineerineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
I started the setup from scratch. The hardware was already there, and it is just a matter of getting software in. It is straightforward to set up. I have built many infrastructure environments.
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Senior Vice President at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very straightforward for the hypervisor (ESXi/vSphere), but View (Desktop) is more complex, and needs extensive planning in an environment like ours with 15,000+ desktops.
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Patrick Ringelberg
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It depends – mostly it’s complex; first of all, I have a lot of customers that just buy some hardware and expect it to work like magic, but also not all of the configuration information is always easily available. Different components need specific configurations, and so we have to go to the vendors to get configuration information for the hardware which takes a lot of time. Customers don’t understand that and think that one size fits all.
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Thang Le Toan (Victory Lee)
CIO at Robusta Technology & Training
We set up a simple way first and then gradually more complex. This makes it easy to control the process of expanding the system.
We implemented it in this way:
- Server Virtualization Infrastructure, Configuring vSphere Hypervisor and VMware vCenter settings.
- Convert physical servers to virtual servers running VMware ESXi 5.5 platform
- Virtualization software with ThinApp, Portable tested on a few virtual machine desktop OS as promiscuity: 12:10 Ubuntu, Suse Linux 11, Windows 7 x64bit, Win 8.1 x64bit, summarizing the results of compatibility testing or debugging.
- Estimates of the amount of resources needed and planned VDI deployment phase 2.
- Phase 1: only provide virtualized applications running on Web, Mobile
- Phase 2: Creating the Desktop templates and analyze the user has specifically been using remote desktop protocol RDP/PCoIP.
Myo Ko
General Manager at Access Spectrum Company Limited
The solution’s initial setup is easy.
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Chris Childerhose
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON
It was simple and straightforward as we have upgraded as versions have come out. 6.5 will be our last upgrade as it will be a hardware refresh next.
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Emmanuel Nguyen
System Engineer at Anetys
The initial setup is easy but could be moderately improved.
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reviewer1496229
Manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
The product is not overly complex to set up. It's very simple and straightforward. A company shouldn't have any issues with the implementation.
We have an admin team that can handle any maintenance required.
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reviewer1346730
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is not complex at all. It's relatively easy. It's a fairly basic process for pretty much any network administrator.
In terms of deployment, the environment we have is not that big. We have less than 10 physical servers, so we tend to still do it manually instead of automating everything. This will change eventually, however, right now we set up everything manually. In regards to the time it takes to set up a vSphere cluster, you're looking at maybe two hours overall if you include all the hosts and the license configuration and the cluster configuration.
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Stephen Krujelskis
Senior System Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
I was not involved in the initial setup.
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Preston Lasebikan
Lead Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It was pretty easy upgrading any of the older hosts from 6.5 to 6.7. Everything was pretty straightforward.
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Rob Pease
IT Director at Jewish Family Service
The initial setup was straightforward. I built the whole thing myself, without knowing anything about VMware to begin with, just learning it as I went.
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reviewer1344021
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The installation process is quite simple, quite straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. I'm certified and find the process very easy.
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reviewer357684
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I have no complaints about the setup. The integration is seamless. When you put together all the various pieces, you build an entire private cloud stack. At that stage, once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward. But it is not a single homogenous unit.
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Neeraj Mehra
Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
The initial setup is not complex.
It may be complex for the users, but not for the IT person; it is not a problem, and at all difficult
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reviewer1502625
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is very simple, not complex.
I would say from a completely blank bare metal to the private cloud, it took us around a few hours. Not more than that.
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reviewer1081776
Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I knew what I was doing, so I found that the initial setup was very straightforward. If an inexperienced user's initial setup involves a little bit of searching in Google then I would think that it wouldn't be very difficult.
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Muhammad Tanvir Ashraf
Systems and Network Administrator at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC
The deployment of this solution was completed before I joined the company, although I don't think that it was complex.
In terms of maintenance, it depends on the task that you are doing. Normally, it doesn't take too much time. There are two of us that handle the maintenance.
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Luis Gomez
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The setup was pretty straightforward.
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delete at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup could be a little convoluted. You've got the PSC or you've got something else, plus you've got to the vSphere, and then you want to do Server Linked Mode. You have different environments, you have different storages. Some support the plugin, some don't. That's a pain.
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ITAnalysac7f
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
If you figure out how to do it, it's quite easy.
There are so many options on the market, and if you switch from a SAN to an S environment, you have to look for white papers and guidelines from Windows. It is also hyper-converged. Yet, if you can follow the guidelines, it's easy.
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Tom Pine
Lead Administrator at Comcast
I find the initial setup easy, but it has been becoming more difficult and technical.
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VMware(VCP5), VMware Regional Academy Director at a university with 501-1,000 employees
We were early adopters, so obviously there were complexities.
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Senior Systems Administrator at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
It was pretty straightforward, from what I recall but I did not do most of the initial set-up. I assisted a colleague who took the reigns.
it_user353388
Managing Director & Head of Technologies at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was very easy, very straight forward. The only downside of the process was the replacement of the auto-generated self-signed SSL certificate by an enterprise-CA-signed one, which had to be done manually via CLI.
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Sr. Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
It's extremely easy, very straightforward, and good documentation.
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Sukanya Satapanachai
Infrastructure Professional Service Team Lead at G-Able
The initial setup is pretty easy and took us a couple of days. We check that the hardware is compatible, then we update the firmware and set up an IP address and then test and tune it. Most of our clients are smaller sized companies.
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Hans-Peter Volk
Head of Professional Services at Axians ICT Austria GmbH
The initial setup is straightforward. The complexities lie on the TITO solution on-top.
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Stanley Lee
Principal Engineer at ST Engineering Limited
The initial setup is straightforward.
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reviewer1441107
Owner at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
The setup takes about one or two days or something in-between.
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Blake Grover
System Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was involved in the initial setup. It was pretty straightforward, pretty simple to set up.
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SystemAd3999
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The setup is not difficult but there a lot of details that may or may not be documented clearly in the installation guides. What made it difficult for us was that we had to keep asking questions that should have been documented but were not.
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NetworkAa4a7
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
I was not involved with the initial setup but I've been involved the last couple years or so with setting up some new ESXi hosts and I've gone through some practice in our test environment to upgrade to 6.7.
Overall, it's okay. There are some good resources out on the web or through VMUG that you can go through.
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Works at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
It was smooth. I had bought symanted brightmail and it could only deploy from VMDX. So i had to learn the hard way. I likes it. Once i learnt about VMware, i have helped no less than 20 administrators to deploy VMware in Kenya.
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Systems Administrator at CityServiceValcon
The initial setup was fairly easy. Adding on and configuring made it complex pretty quickly.
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Senior System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
I wasn’t involved.
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Server Manager at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Complexity depends on how you're implementing it because vSphere has a lot of products. If you're looking looking to install vCenter, it quite easy.
If you're using a lot of the other products, you have to be careful. Today, we use almost every product from VMware and we still have to be careful with the updates.
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Stevenson University Systems Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
It takes a lot of upfront understanding that some shops simply don't have. I went for my VCP Certification, and the level of detail and expertise required is vast. Everybody needs to be on board: from your networking team, to your security team, everybody needs to know how it interacts with their domain and bailiwicks. It's a game changer on every level imaginable, and the implications need to be made clear. There is, without a doubt, increased complexity, but the pros far outweigh the cons.
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IS Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
It's straightforward, and the documentation is nice. It's also got a good footprint on the web, that makes it easy to look for other users for knowledge and advice.
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JeanSpiteri
Infrastructure Engineer at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup of the solution is straightforward.
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Donald Lesotlho
IT Support Officer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
The installation for VMware vSphere was a one-time installation. You do it once, and that's it.
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reviewer1173861
Global IT Infrastructure Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our deployment was a project that took a couple of weeks. It was not major. The last upgrade went smoothly, as well. In general, the time that it took to put things in place was acceptable.
Our only complaint about the implementation is about having the resources with the requisite knowledge. That's our biggest challenge.
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reviewer929742
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation process is quite straightforward. It's not overly complex. I wouldn't say it's difficult. A company shouldn't have any issues with the setup process.
While we have an integrator handle our deployment we manage the solution by ourselves, in-house.
You only need two people for deployment or maintenance tasks.
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Kobus Almon
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt
The initial setup is very simple.
Its duration depends on how big the environment is. Huge ones may take several weeks for implementation, while smaller ones would take several days.
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reviewer1642854
Sr. Virtualization Engineer at a government with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is straightforward. Once you have some understanding, it's straightforward.
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Rajesh Mehta
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is not complex. It's rather straightforward.
We can deploy the solution in three to four days, typically. We deploy multiple clusters and we take three to four days in terms of grid installing.
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reviewer1447761
Assitant Director - IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We didn't actually handle the installation, and therefore I can't really talk about the process, as I wasn't involved directly.
The company that we bought had installed the vSphere for us and that server is still running from last year. We haven't touched it.
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Walmik Wankhede
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
The concept is new. We found it a little complex at the start but the operational part was normal.
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Reviewer3064
Head - Server and Storage at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was very straightforward setup.
The way we had done it is it came pre-installed with as part of the hardware stack that we purchased so the new servers that we purchased we bundled that ESXi software on top of it from the hardware vendor itself. So from that perspective, the implementation strategy was to have it as an OEM100 by the hardware vendor itself and then the way we designed it from our side is we designed it into two different data centers. One for production, one for test and development. So just have a logical separation there in terms of the hardware that was used for production and what was used for distribution.
Overall timelines are approximately two to three weeks time-frame. After the hardware was developed, they came in and installed the base software and considered it based on our requirements.
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Sajag Chaturvedi
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer
With the initial setup, server workloads were running on an open source. When we had planned to go with VMware, we faced a bit of complexity. It was just a one time thing. After that, everything went smoothly. So, there were some complexities that we did face.
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CIO9dd5
CIO at a library with 201-500 employees
I waited until version 5 because, prior to that, I thought it was too difficult to set up. With that version, the setup was fairly easy. And it has gotten a lot easier since.
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System Developer/Engineer at Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)
It's not complex but I have a lot of experience.
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System Support Engineer at TMN
It was complex because you have to prepare for every situation.
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Principal Architect at Rackspace
vCenter environment is super simple. Install ESXI; it's very straight forward. Then getting vCenter off the ground and going is extremely straightforward, especially if you use the vCenter server appliance: You can be up and running in a matter of a few hours.
We've set up a vROPS and we've found that it works really well in a service provider environment, that you can point it to multiple vCenters. We've worked with other vendors to do some deeper logging, deeper metrics gathering, and in doing so, we worked close with VMware and that other vendor and really built a full scale out worldwide global monitoring and alerting solution. That's one of the things we look for: Something that to fill a void that we don't have.
it_user321291
Senior Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Easy to set up, not difficult, but more difficult to implement it the right way, especially for larger organizations, but that’s just knowing the platform. You have to do homework, and know what you’re doing. If you link vCenter, you must make sure, for example, to do it correctly (like MS SQL, you must know to separate logs and data files, etc.).
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Systems Engineering Associate Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was straightforward, and physical servers used to host web applications.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Straightforward, the key to this working is to ensure you use compatible hardware.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The install was quick and the configuration was straight to the point. I was up and running with a working platform in 25 minutes from start to finish once I rack mounted and cabled the server. It would be even faster with a converged infrastructure or blade system.
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Tomas Sajauka
Systems Engineer-Consultant at Blue Bridge Bond, UAB
The initial setup of VMware vSphere is simple. However, I have been using similar solutions for 15 years making the process simple.
The installation took approximately 15 minutes. However, the installation itself is very easy but you need to do the configurations and integrations which can be more difficult depending on the customer's needs and their infrastructure.
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reviewer1478514
Database Administrator at a government with 1-10 employees
The initial setup for this solution is simple.
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FelixDiaz
Freelance, Automation Project Administration, DCS, I&E at Centennial Cayman Corp Chile S.A
When I first got involved with vSphere, I thought it was fantastic to use the default. Once it was deployed, I could check on the rail systems, and everything worked very well. The best thing is that the tests I run to understand the situation can also run parallel. So I found it all straightforward. However, primarily I'm working on a platform already built by the companies that provide them. I do some maintenance and modifications of the customer's applications. Setting up this solution isn't generally part of my job.
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Huy Le Quang
Cloud Professional Architect at FPT Software
It's easier for the user to deploy vSphere or the vCenter, but it's complex when setting up network virtualization.
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reviewer1126809
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
For the initial setup, you need to do design work with someone who understands VMware, who is actually certified by VMware. You need someone certified to do it.
Deployment is not a problem. As long as you take time doing your design, the deployment will not take long. You can do it within a week.
If you have one certified engineer, the implementation will go fine.
In terms of the management of the solution, we have about four engineers who are looking after it.
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reviewer1515015
General manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
We have found the solution to be straightforward. It's pretty simple and not overly complex.
A different team handled the setup and deployment. I can't say exactly how long it took to get everything up and running.
We have some engineers that can handle the deployment and maintenance aspects of the product.
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reviewer1406361
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is pretty good. It took us about an hour to implement this solution.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
The initial setup is straightforward. It's easy to install.
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Sergei Terekhin
Head of System Architecture Department at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not complex at all. If a company needs to set up the solution, they shouldn't have an issue doing so.
The plan for deployment matters. You should use a basic method of installation from a USB or some other hard drive or directly. It takes about 15 or 20 minutes.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at Computech Associates
Its installation is almost straightforward. The basic installation is easy, but it also depends upon the customer requirements.
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reviewer1362096
Pré-vendas at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I had some issues with this installation, but not from the vSphere angle. We have to watch compatibility measures between the hardware we are using and other software. It's not a problem with vSphere itself. It's the basic compatibility that we must follow.
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Network Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It is easy to set up. Once you get it running, it doesn't break down. It just runs.
The deployment took a week to complete. I do not fault the solution, as it was our personal systematic issues that had to be dealt with internally.
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Customers who move to or implement VMware are already aware and skilled on the implementation level. It is usually very straightforward.
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Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's very easy to set up because it's a popular product and there are many online articles. VMware articles are a bit dry. Many consultants post their experiences, making deployment of vSphere straightforward so long as it's planned properly.
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Server Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
That depends on your definition of complex. It takes some time to wrap your head around the concept of virtualization. But it gets simpler, especially as you set up from scratch.
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IT - Server Administration with 501-1,000 employees
A little of both. It was complex because we didn’t know a lot about it but being involved in the setup with a vendor proved itself to be pretty straightforward.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don’t know.
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reviewer1672974
Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In most cases, the initial setup is simple.
It took two months to deploy this solution.
We have a team of two or three to deploy this solution.
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reviewer1522935
Operation Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is not straightforward. It's pretty complex.
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Rommie Kaputin
IT TECHNICAL/ SERVER ADMINISTRATOR at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was not at the company when they did the deployment of vSphere version 5.5 but I did do the deployment of a host on version 6.7, which is quite straightforward.
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reviewer1016370
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I thought that the initial setup was very straightforward.
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VP Cloud Business at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Setting up this solution is not a problem.
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Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward and clear.
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VP, Infrastructure Management and Security Services at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Very complex, as there are a lot of moving parts to get into service. We simplify it for the end users but it is complex.
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Manager of Technical Support at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
I had help, but I would say it was fairly straightforward. At that time, I hadn’t even been to a class, so it was very new to me.
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Systems Support Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The implementation of the solution is relatively simple. Of course, you need to have some knowledge about infrastructure to be able to create an environment without performance issues. But in general, the deployment of the vSphere system is easy. Just some feature configurations need to be really studied to improve if they really have to be implemented. VMWare provides all the documentation necessary to implement and manage vSphere throughout your environment.
The most common problem in implementing this solution is the incompatibility with some physical hardware, but it was more frequent in the past. All current physical hardware can support virtualization technology.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
The ease of installation depends on your organization's infrastructure - it can be very simple or complicated depending on what you want it to do.
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Hani Ismail
Scrum Master - Digital Marketing at Vodafone
I didn't personally install this solution.
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reviewer807690
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation is straightforward.
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Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
Setting up vSphere is very easy. It takes about three or four technicians to implement, including one manager and three admins.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation is not overly complex. The integration project took two months, and the upgrade to version 6.7 took a lot of time.
For deployment and maintenance, you need a team of three or four admins and engineers.
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Maan Othman
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
Depending on the environment, it can take a couple of days to complete the installation and configuration.
We have a team of two engineers to complete the entire setup.
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reviewer1407546
Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution was deployed by the company before I arrived. I wasn't a part of the process. Therefore, I can't speak to how easy or difficult it was or how long the deployment process actually was. I don't have any visibility or insights into that.
There are two main people that can go into the management console and perform maintenance duties as necessary.
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Fernando Tamariz
Information Technology Specialist at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was simple, but you have to develop it before you begin to install it.
The deployment took us approximately one week.
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Arshad-Hussain
Director at OPEOPL LISTEN TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
The initial setup is not difficult or complex. We found it to be straightforward and easy.
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ITInfras287c
IT Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was one of the original architects deploying vSphere in our organization. At first, it seemed complex, but as we got a little more familiar with the product it became very straightforward on how to add resources and configure workloads to run on vSphere.
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IT Infrastructure Team Lead / Project Lead IT at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The setup was easy. Some basics should be taken into consideration first.
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Solution lifecycle manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We already had knowledge of the product on the team, so it was easy for us.
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IS Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was very straightforward. It was almost too easy. Once vCenter is up and running, creating the first cluster was simple. There is very good documentation from VMware and many other resources available online to assist with selecting the correct configuration options.
it_user313893
Operations Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We've only deployed v6 in a lab environment, but it was easy to deploy, and there was no major differences to v5.5
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Systems Services Representative at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's very easy. I wan't involved in the early stages, and I came in when v5 was in place and when lots of infrastructure was already set up.
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Principal Systems Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
It was way too easy.
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Network/Systems Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial installation and setup of an ESXi server is very straightforward. When you start getting into the implementation of a vCenter Server you find all the “nooks and crannies” of the installation that are available. It is definitely more complex with a vCenter Server but that is mostly only if you are using all the features available to you. If you just use vCenter for managing multiple hosts at an Essentials license, it isn’t very complex at all.
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Michael Perry
Vice President at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees
Straightforward.
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Senior Manager of Network at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Exceedingly simple setup. You can make it more complex depending how truly enterprise your needs are, like stateless implementations of ESXi.
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reviewer1752153
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup is relatively simple. Between one and 10, I would give it a six.
For the product that I'm working on right now it took about three weeks because it had several different virtual machines and inside the virtual machines there were a lot of containers. So there were certain complexities that extended the complexity of the VMware installation itself. But for just the VMware only it took about a week and a half or something like that.
We did not use consultants or resellers for deployment, just the documentation.
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reviewer1596237
IT & Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is easy.
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reviewer1553184
Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is not overly complex. It's quite straightforward. A company shouldn't have any issues with the initial setup process. It's simple.
We had everything up and running within a week. It doesn't take too long.
View full review »it_user938985
Customer Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was very straightforward, very easy. For me, it's been about eight years using VMware, so it's very fluid, very easy for me to do. I've never really had any kind of a problem.
View full review »JL
SystemsAe086
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We had outside help from a partner, but the initial setup was pretty straightforward.
View full review »it_user383880
Solutions Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
vSphere 5.1 was pretty difficult to set up with the introduction of SSO, but 6.0 has simplified that. It's very easy to set up and there are good guides for it. When I install it for my customers, I have them sit and watch so they can learn what's going on. We use it as a teaching opportunity.
View full review »it_user312804
Senior System Analyst at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup for the current datacenter was complex, not because of VMware but because of the hosting limitations provided.
View full review »it_user315288
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It was straightforward.
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Manager of Corporate Systems at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very straightforward – no problems setting up.
View full review »it_user321129
Sr. IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It's a little bit complicated at the beginning because we did some of it on our own, and we could have engaged professional services to ease that pain. Some of the complications from a networking piece, which were a little confusing. Also confusing, was the difference between thick and thin provisioning. Logic says you should thin provision, but after taking the classes, we probably should have gone with thick provisioning.
View full review »it_user237264
IT Administrator and Sr. VMware Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
No, anyway. From initial installation of ESXi servers to configuration in vCenter Server the installation process is very intuitive and easy (remember that I'm VCP).
View full review »it_user293886
VMware Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was pretty much straightforward. It all depends on how deep you want to go with configuration.
View full review »it_user281973
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup wasn't complex because we have experience with other VMWare solutions.
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Fredrik Hallgarde
Consulting Manager at Real Time Services AB
Its installation is straightforward. That's not a problem.
The deployment duration varies. For a specific installation, it could take 15 minutes to set up the whole thing, and it could also take three weeks. It depends on how we're scoping it.
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reviewer1437084
Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is easy.
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reviewer1611207
Information Technology Manager & Chief Information Officer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
It has medium complexity. It isn't necessarily easy to set up. After you have set it up, it is easy to enhance.
View full review »FK
reviewer1390431
Head Of Network & Technical Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The installation is straightforward and is easy to manage. It took approximately two hours to install.
View full review »DA
Daniel Aramayo
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.
The initial setup was extremely straightforward.
View full review »MC
reviewer1377360
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
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ReviewerP859
Head of Technological Architecture at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The setup was a bit complex at first. Now, it is more simple.
The implementation was fast.
View full review »it_user389040
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is pretty straightforward, but it can get complex as you want to use more features. When we first started, it was very, very simple, but we've since made it a lot more complex to account for redundancy.
View full review »it_user365892
Project Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Personally, I find the initial setup too simple, but I’ve worked several years on different versions.
View full review »it_user320934
Principal Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is somewhat complex – for building an enterprise system, however, you can get the free version, and it's actually the same version you run on your enterprise, it’s the same software.
View full review »it_user271026
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was straightforward.
View full review »SB
reviewer1347297
Engineering Manager, R&D at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The installation is not difficult it is self-explanatory.
View full review »VH
reviewer1363245
CIO at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward. The deployment took one to three days.
View full review »JS
NetworkA3fbb
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
I was not involved in the initial setup.
View full review »it_user683454
DPSA III at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup was relatively easy, basically installing the VMWare operating system.
The difficult phase was doing the actual VMWare conversions because we were not sure whether the legacy servers would convert over properly.
Another difficult setup was the networking aspect because each VLAN needed to be specified and the network settings needed to be correct.
View full review »FB
Firoze Bhorat
Senior Environments Engineer - Virtualised Environments at Derivco with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward, unless you not technically inclined, in which case it is complex.
View full review »it_user385854
Principal System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are a number of components to the product itself and, based on different architectures, it can change the complexity of that. But I would say, for the most part, it's very straightforward for an initial installation.
View full review »it_user321048
Sr. IT Technical Engineer & Solutions Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The efforts required to set up vSphere is extremely simplistic. In our market, we have a large turnover from time to time, so it's easy to train and educate those on setting up the vSphere products from the ground up. It's very simplified. The installations are very easy.
View full review »it_user321036
Network/Systems Administrator at Tidewell Hospice
I wasn’t there for the initial setup, but it's very straightforward.
View full review »it_user321525
Senior Systems Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was straightforward.
View full review »it_user297123
Operations Support Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With v5.1 you have to consider the various roles and how you wish to deploy them. SSO, Web, inventory, vCenter can all be installed together, separately, or any mix in between, and even physically if you wanted. I have inherited this design, and I would have done it differently, but as time passes, best practice is improved.
View full review »it_user209226
System Administrator at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees
The vSphere installation, and operations are fully documented. I think that VMWare spent a lot of time writing documents which could be useful during the platforms lifecycle.
View full review »it_user280956
Virtualization and Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is always straightforward if you follow the documentation.
View full review »it_user209226
System Administrator at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees
Setup is light work, but many components must be configured with vSphere documentation by hand.
View full review »it_user183474
Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Pretty straightforward.
View full review »PM
reviewer1739175
VMware PSO Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial deployment was straightforward, but again it depends on the use cases. For example, in one project we were working on the deployment and using automation from the customer themselves. They wrote their automation, and it was a little complex to match what they need based on their automation and how we could deploy the products for them.
View full review »LO
Luca Olivotto
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup was easy.
View full review »it_user332952
Researcher and Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The multi-path is very complex with iSCSI and non-existent with NFS.
it_user420003
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Installing a complete VMware with three nodes, vSphere Software Appliance, and all things related took some time. So its not so easy and not so fast.
View full review »it_user414402
Technical Director at ADMI France
It's simple because I followed their procedures. It only took me a week to see results.
View full review »it_user321048
Sr. IT Technical Engineer & Solutions Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's straightforward, and couldn't be any easier. I did training around the world for IT resources, even teams who have never seen it can adopt it, both in terms of administrative and installation.
View full review »it_user320124
System Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It’s fairly easy to set up. There’s always a little bit of a question of what comes first, the host of the virtualization of the vCenter server, but it’s not too hard to figure out.
View full review »it_user321261
Sr. Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It’s now very easy, was harder but now more deployment options, scripts, auto-deploy, can have full automation or manual, smaller footprint.
View full review »it_user280818
Systems Engineer at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
It is a quite straightforward setup. It’s just a easy-to-follow wizard installer, and I don’t think that there is an easier way to do it.
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OscarMunoz
Jefatura del Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información at SERGEAR SAC
The initial setup of VMware vSphere was simple. The full deployment took approximately two weeks.
View full review »MS
Mohab Samy
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
The initial setup is straightforward.
The time it takes for deployment depends on the environment and the design of it.
We need a team of five technicians to maintain this solution.
View full review »TC
reviewer1109874
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward but when it comes to consolidation it can become complex quickly in some environments. The time it takes to install depends on many variables. For example, if you are building a data center and are using this solution then it can be complex.
When it comes to maintenance, you do not need a team to handle it. We have found it easy to manage.
View full review »VC
reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I won't say it is straightforward, but it is also not complex. If the hardware and net securities are there and you have the hardware configuration, then the installation takes 24 to 48 hours.
View full review »HM
Hazem Mohamed
Deputy Manager IT at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The setup was very easy. There were guidelines, and we simply followed the steps. The deployment took around three days.
View full review »it_user383799
VI Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
If you have a good understanding from the system how the solution works, it can be simple. Otherwise, it can be confusing.
View full review »it_user385836
Virtualization Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is pretty straightforward and there's not really anything complex about it. I've been working on it for six years now, and it's easy for me.
View full review »it_user321669
Sr. Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was very straightforward.
View full review »it_user331992
Senior System Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was not involved, but it would be simple to apply consistent set of policies and get them to function as a single entity.
View full review »it_user333873
Director of IT at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
Setup was very easy.
View full review »it_user320667
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Pretty straightforward, I've installed vCenter dozens of times, and I've run into a few issues, but other than that its pretty easy.
View full review »it_user321078
IT Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Setup was very straightforward.
View full review »it_user320298
Technology Services Manager at Oden
It was very straightforward.
it_user275226
IT Director with 501-1,000 employees
It was complex as we have many sites. Therefore, we needed to decide if we should put them all together in a single data center, or to use one instance of vSphere for all our data centers.
View full review »PatrickCiPaaS
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at SnapLogic
n/a. It was already set up for me.
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it_user88791
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Straightforward, must have some knowledge though how to implement in the organizations required solution.
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MU
reviewer2263155
Lead Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VMware vSphere's deployment is easy. It doesn't take more than 20 minutes. You can download it from the official website and install it.
View full review »YB
Yan BENOIST
Entrepreneur at WindiS
The setup is straightforward, only a few questions to answer, and you have your hypervisor ready !
View full review »SM
Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
Simple
View full review »it_user321198
Cloud Automation and Integration Focal at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was very easy.
View full review »it_user685386
Technical Education Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The setup was straightforward and vendor support is available from planning, to setup, to maintenance.
View full review »RR
Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
In terms of the setup, it was generally straightforward overall. However, it was relatively complex to set-up vRealize Automation 6.
View full review »it_user418209
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our initial setup was quite complex because several machines where physical machines, others were OVM virtual machines, and others were VMware machines.
View full review »it_user334191
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Very straightforward. Just like moving to any other vSphere release.
View full review »it_user321318
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very easy.
View full review »it_user321009
Network Analyst at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say not complex but it’s not click click click, it goes through a wizard but once you need to architect the network environment it’s a bit complex.
View full review »it_user321261
Sr. Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It’s now very easy. It was harder, but now there are more deployment options, scripts, auto-deploy, and you can have full automation or manual, with a smaller footprint.
View full review »it_user167028
System Administartor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Initial setup was quite straightforward.
View full review »BK
Barna Kosa
IT Services Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The installation is straightforward and simple because we learned how to do it a long time ago. Even a new user could find it easy.
CT
Costinel Tunsoiu
Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was straightforward, it was easy.
View full review »MM
reviewer274092
Vice President with 1-10 employees
It was complex, and not straightforward. The deployment took six hours initially to setup. Then, we migrated our virtual-physical servers to virtual machines and now coming projects were also built on virtual machines.
View full review »it_user284274
Technical Director - IT Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial configuration is very easy, and the deployment of centralized management is an assisted process.
View full review »it_user321375
Director, Information Technology at Mountville Mills
It was straightforward.
View full review »it_user250251
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees
It's extremely easy, and you can set it up in less than a day. We do nesting virtualizitions and labs all the time.
View full review »it_user274569
CEO with 51-200 employees
It was straightforward.
View full review »NW
reviewer1487706
Head of Technical at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup becomes simpler by the day. It's very easy. But it wasn't easy before and was pretty tedious. But these days, it's easy.
The deployment time depends on the workload and how large the environment is. If there are a lot of hypervisors and migration work, it could take anywhere from two to six days or more to install and deploy.
View full review »MW
ITManageb049
IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. I have been setting it up for 10 years.
View full review »it_user367836
IT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I don't have any issues with initial setup.
View full review »it_user320919
Group Leader - Server Technologies & Storage at a government with 501-1,000 employees
It's straightforward.
View full review »it_user320928
CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Somewhere in the middle – you have to know what you’re doing and have some knowledge. One thing with these products, is that the more you use them the easier it is.
View full review »it_user320598
vSphere Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Can be straightforward, but it can be complex, depending on the size and what you're trying to do.
View full review »it_user316464
Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The setup itself is simple, and the only thing is finding the minimums; it won’t tell you minimums prior to upgrades, and you won’t find out until machine dies.
View full review »it_user300504
Executive Vice President at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
It's straightforward.
View full review »it_user279879
Programmer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Straightforward.
View full review »it_user132501
Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
With the right amount of training initial installation is usually straightforward; even in the absence of that it's pretty much straightforward.
View full review »ZB
reviewer1468668
Executive Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The deployment is straightforward and probably takes less than 20 minutes per host.
View full review »SJ
reviewer887736
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
The setup is pretty easy.
View full review »it_user499017
Lead System Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup was very straightforward and simple.
View full review »it_user363441
Deployment Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup was fairly straightforward. ESX is easy to configure and vCenter is intuitive on top.
View full review »it_user331854
Senior Systems Administor at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Upgrading from v5.5 to v6.0, there were a couple of areas in which we had to be careful because the instructions weren't presented clearly, especially with the new vCenter architecture. You have to be careful, but after that, everything else was easy.
View full review »it_user321165
Network Engineer 4 at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
I was not involved when they did the initial setup. In a prior job, in a big environment, the setup was smooth in moving to 5.5 from 4.1
View full review »it_user320640
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I inherited our setup. It's very easy to add new versions as well. As long as you know what you're doing, it's very easy.
View full review »OscarMunoz
Jefatura del Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información at SERGEAR SAC
The initial setup was straightforward with deployment taking two weeks. We had an independent integrator who was responsible for this and they did a good job.
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Carlos Rodriguez
Pre-sales engineer
The setup was easy to install and deploy. It took one or two days for deployment.
View full review »it_user282900
Infrastructure Engineer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees
I set up a clustered virtual environment and distributed switches with integration into EMC VNX using VLANs for each SP for iSCSI traffic.
View full review »it_user363687
Senior Software QA Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is simple.
View full review »it_user333861
Sr. Architect - Enterprise Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was a straightforward initial setup.
View full review »it_user321645
Technical leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It was a very easy initial setup, including the ESXi host.
View full review »it_user300498
Senior IT Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
As system admins, difficulty isn't an issue as long it works after the deployment.
View full review »it_user215685
Regional IT at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees
Setup was straightforward. Even an entry-level IT engineer could follow the instructions on the screen with ease.
View full review »JC
reviewer1738062
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy.
View full review »SY
reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The installation was straightforward.
It took a few hours to complete the installation.
We require two people to maintain this solution.
View full review »it_user862539
Infrastracture Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was easy.
View full review »it_user375447
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The set-up is very straightforward.
it_user335937
Technical Lead - IT at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was pretty easy. I mean, I guess, we have a pretty small environment but we had a few problems with upgrading. But those were solved by our partners.
View full review »it_user334206
System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It was straightforward, just following the step by step guide.
View full review »it_user334515
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
I wasn't part of initial set-up, but I believe it’s complex based on the senior engineer’s experience. For example, right now the metrics to upgrade is complex, requiring certain elements.
View full review »it_user321069
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It was straightforward.
View full review »it_user285072
Technical lead - Infrastructure Consulting / Transformation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's straightforward.
View full review »it_user131937
Works at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
It was straightforward till the installation of vCenter.
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it_user128259
Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was straight-forward.
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it_user86190
Infrastructure Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Every thing was straight forward and can easily/readily be found on Internet
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it_user365877
System Engineer with 501-1,000 employees
In the previous version (5.1/5.0) the initial setup was terrible, now it’s much better.
View full review »DL
virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
If you don’t have a complex infrastructure you can do a next, next, finish installation and it would run fine.
it_user280935
IT Systems Administrator at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It was complex, as the setup and management was not too friendly.
View full review »IC
reviewer1379943
Product Management & Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have one initial setup, we are not doing the setup all the time. Since we are a service provider, we have the infrastructure already.
View full review »DN
reviewer935562
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
As the the solution is cloud-based, it is easy to install.
The installation took, perhaps, four days.
View full review »it_user313041
IT Systems Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward and easy to use. Installing ESXi is no different than any other Operating System and the vCSA deployment is just as simple as clicking next a few times.
View full review »it_user339246
VMware Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
I joined the company after it was implemented.
View full review »it_user320268
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It’s fairly straightforward.
View full review »it_user321027
Systems Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I inherited our production environment, but I set up the dev environment and that was up and running in a day. The time from installation to functional environment was about a day.
View full review »RR
Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Yes. Hypervisor setup and setup of High Availability clustering in a jiffy.
View full review »DL
virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The installation is simple.
View full review »it_user320502
Asst. manager System Operations with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's straightforward.
View full review »RT
Ruddy TSHILUMBA
Network and Systems Administrator at Ishango-it
For my initial setup, I am not using the entire functionality. We are using vMotion, storage, and clustering.
View full review »it_user411975
Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is straightforward. The only complexity appears with inherited network security policies.
View full review »it_user320607
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It’s pretty straightforward, not complex at all.
View full review »it_user367833
ITC Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup was nothing but easy. The system was running in just a few minutes.
View full review »it_user357519
Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
It was very straightforward, no problem occurred at the set up stage,
View full review »ES
reviewer1333554
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In general terms, it is easy to deploy, but it depends on the size of the project. The deployment duration varies. A basic deployment doesn't take more than one hour.
View full review »AU
ReviewerU8183
Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
The setup was easy. The deployment did not take much time, as long as it was properly planned. The planning must be from an experienced side and user-acceptance front. It should not take more than two months of time.
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