VMware vSphere Review

Instead of having one application for every physical host, we can run 30-40 on one host.

Valuable Features

The entire virtualization element has allowed us to utilize the hardware more efficiently.

Improvements to My Organization

Instead of having one application for every physical host, we can run 30-40 on the same physical host.

Room for Improvement

I think the updates allowing me to run through the VCSA appliance could be better.

Stability Issues

Fantastic – I love vMotion.

Scalability Issues

Its been working out great for us.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Our technical support is through HP, but we've had very few issues, and it's been great for us.

Initial Setup

It was way too easy.

Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing

We look at the price point per performance, performance first and then how much it costs.

Other Solutions Considered

We looked at Red Hat but the VMware solution worked out better for us.

**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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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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