- Bare metal Hypervisor
- Management
- Mobility of VMs
- Distributed resource services - HA, DRS; Network and Storage
VMware vSphere ReviewIt's helped us improve our SSO functionality and there's the opportunity to scale with the Platform Services Controller.
Valuable Features
Improvements to My Organization
Hypervisor & Management in the new vCenter Server 6 with Platform Services Controller gives us a huge opportunity for scalability. It's also helped improve our SSO functionality with one click.
Room for Improvement
It would be nice if they could have offer a straight/forward deployment of vCenter from an OVA, not from an ISO.
Use of Solution
I've used vSphere for about 15 years, and vCOPS for two years.
Deployment Issues
No issues encountered.
Stability Issues
No issues encountered.
Scalability Issues
No issues encountered.
Customer Service and Technical Support
Customer Service:
I have not needed to contact them yet.
Technical Support:I have not needed to contact them yet.
Previous Solutions
I hadn't used a previous solution.
Initial Setup
It was straightforward.
Implementation Team
An in-house implementation was done. All the pre-production implementation tests were made on VMware Workstation 11. Regarding vCenter 6, it is a must to install the VMware OVF tool in order to find, and make, the needed settings in the appliance *.vmx , before starting it. Having in mind the vCenter appliance is intended for ESXi deployment, in the production environment it was straightforward.
ROI
The ROI is much better with the VSOM.
Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing
From the position of an enterprise partner of VMware, it is not really easy to convince the end-customers of the VSOM benefits, having in mind the price tag.
Other Solutions Considered
No other options were evaluated.
Other Advice
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We're an enterprise partner of VMware with CloudProvider solution competency.
Oct 11 2015
Author
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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