VMware vSphere Review

It's helped us improve our SSO functionality and there's the opportunity to scale with the Platform Services Controller.

What is most valuable?

  • Bare metal Hypervisor
  • Management
  • Mobility of VMs
  • Distributed resource services - HA, DRS; Network and Storage

How has it helped 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.

What needs improvement?

It would be nice if they could have offer a straight/forward deployment of vCenter from an OVA, not from an ISO.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used vSphere for about 15 years, and vCOPS for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

How are 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.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I hadn't used a previous solution.

How was the initial setup?

It was straightforward.

What about the 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.

What was our ROI?

The ROI is much better with the VSOM.

What's my experience with 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.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No other options were evaluated.

What other advice do I have?

Which version of this solution are you currently using?

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**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.
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We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running.
Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot.
Since we have an internal cloud, suddenly people may require 1000 or 2000 VMS in something. We have options to analyze and make sure we have enough scalability.
The most valuable features for me are a very easily scalable infrastructure. I can have a couple of hosts to do basic workloads. I can have a lot of hosts to do a lot of workloads. vSAN integrates my storage so I don't need an external storage SAN. I love having everything integrated in the same UI. The new HTML5 interface doesn't require any plugins anymore and it's super-fast.
It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine.
Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature.
It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security.
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