VMware vSphere Review

It helps us in the management of thousands of VMs in the coverage UI

What is our primary use case?

  • Cloud computing service (IaaS)
  • Private/hybrid cloud
  • Virtualization infrastructure
  • Virtualization desktop infrastructure.

How has it helped my organization?

  • High availability causes downtime service because it is needed to reboot VMs.
  • Fault tolerance is limited by the four vCPUs.
  • The service provider is not easy to integrate via API like OpenStack.

What is most valuable?

  • vCloud Director, because we may use it as the dashboard for providing cloud services.
  • vCenter 
  • vSphere, because it helps us in the management of thousands of VMs in the coverage UI.

What needs improvement?

The SDK/API to help SPs (service providers) provide the pay-as-you-go business model in cloud service.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

Which version of this solution are you currently using?

6.5
**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 highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily.
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.
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