vCenter Configuration Manager Scalability

Karthik PR - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Datacenter Solutions Architect at Pacer

The solution is completely scalable. We can implement it as a single federation with up to 96 nodes. There are a lot of products in VMware. For SMB customers, there is a product called Essentials. An SMB can use Essentials for over 500 users. However, Essentials can only be used on three hosts. There is a product known as the Essentials Plus kit that comes with vSphere, vCenter, and other products. The Standard license has socket-based licenses. Support with Essentials will be taken care of, and the product comes with management software, a hypervisor, and more. Though it costs a lot less, the functionality is very limited. The customer should go with the Standard edition when looking for higher functionality or more VMs or stability. They should go with the Enterprise Plus editions if they are looking for DRS, which means distributed resource scheduler and fault tolerance.

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VivekSaini - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Aon Corporation

The solution’s scalability is good.

10,000+ users are using this solution. There is some percentage of growth every year.

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SigfridCecillon - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Arsium

I would rate the scalability quite good. You can extend your environment effectively with appropriate investment.

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. Achieving a ten is challenging because integrating new servers or services isn't very straightforward. Some complexities arise during such expansions.

We have around 20 to 30 customers using this solution.

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Raouf Mahfoud Silhadi - PeerSpot reviewer
Spécialiste VMware at Novipro

It is not an easily scalable tool, but it is possible if you have a new platform or want to expand a platform. You need to reconfigure everything and reinstall the tool from the beginning. If you want to use a different sizing, you can change it directly from the actual one, but you need to plan it beforehand. Imagine you have only vCenter Configuration Manager for three servers, and you didn't know that in the future, you may have more physical servers. When you add more physical servers to your environment, you need to resize your vCenter Configuration Manager to follow the huge added workload. In the aforementioned case, you need to prepare your vCenter, but I don't see such configurations being complex, though some customers have not done it before and may find it complex.

Using the scalability features of the product is easy.

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Jayesh Bhandari - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Head at Ashapura Minechem Ltd

The solution’s scalability is very easy. You have to stop the server, deploy the hardware, and hit the one reboot to stop the server. It will take every configuration over there. If you have primary and secondary servers, there will be zero downtime.

Around 1,000 users are using this solution.

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Tommy Myo Min Aung - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The whole organization, consisting of around 1,000 employees, uses the tool.

The tool is used in production in our company, so everyone uses it daily.

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OğuzKalaycı - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at Yaşar Holding

vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution. Around 15 to 20 users are using the solution in our organization.

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JT
Owner at EnterCOM

It's highly scalable, and I would rate it ten out of ten in that regard. It is suitable for organizations with well over a thousand employees, which qualifies as a large-scale deployment.

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Roopesh Mohabeer - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Support Analyst at WARWYCK PHOENIX PCC

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

Initially, there were some scalability issues with the product, but my company did get assistance from vCenter Configuration Manager with regard to deployment and administrative areas.

Three people in my company use vCenter Configuration Manager.

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TB
Information Technology Consultant at HighLine

We haven't faced any limitations so far. We have a large footprint, with around 35 servers, so it's used extensively. Right now, we're in the process of consolidation, so the usage will likely go down a little bit. Right now, we're using it for around 10 hours a week.

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Ravikumar Korada - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Recruiter at Covalense

The tool's scalability is good and easy, especially when compared to Microsoft Hyper-V. Scalability in vCenter Configuration Manager can be used from the hardware itself. Hyper-V's scalability options can be used only with the help of Windows OS.

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Ronald D'Souza - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Consultant for CA Southern Africa at Hyperion Holding Pty Ltd

vCenter Configuration Manager is scalable. There is a lot of flexibility.

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KE
Cyber Security Analyst at Petrotrade

It is a very scalable solution since it allows users to add a few more nodes and have all the detections.

Around 500 people in my company use the product. My company manages 90,00,000 endpoints of our clients who use the product.

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MS
Project Manager at Swakop Uranium

The solution is scalable. 

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RP
IT Manager at sikraft

We can scale the solution as needed. It's not a problem.

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RS
Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

We are not using these products on a very large scale. For example, we use it for 100 servers and not for 1,000 servers. We are using them in a few clusters based on their CPU types. On this scale, we are satisfied with the products. But we don't know if we want to ramp up to larger scales. We don't know if that is suitable or not.

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Rajender Bhandari - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Binary Global Limited

In terms of scalability, our experience has been quite positive. The solution is highly scalable and capable of supporting up to 64 nodes in an ESXi cluster.

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Marko Heric - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator medior at FAZI Company

vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution.

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Sandu Viorel - PeerSpot reviewer
Sef Compartiment IT at Vrancart SA

We have 300 vCenter Configuration Manager users in our organization.

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

I have found vCenter Configuration Manager to be scalable.

We have five system administrators using this solution in my organization. We use the solution often.

We have over 500 VMs.

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Tommy Myo Min Aung - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling

There are about 500 to 1,000 people in our organization using vCenter. Our environment contains around 200 servers. 

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MuratAlici - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery department at Huawei

It is scalable enough for our company.

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AF
IT Manager at Inelectra, S.A.C.A.

vCenter Configuration Manager is scalable. I really like it.

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AB
Associate Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I believe the program is scalable. We have at least three to four people at each site, depending upon the capacity of the internal users within our organization site.

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NP
Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

The solution is easily scalable. We've found it easy to expand. Other companies should not have any trouble if they need to scale it out as well.

We have about 10-15 people using the solution currently. They're all admins.

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Siddhesh Sawant - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Customer Support Engineer at Magnamious Systems Pvt. Ltd.

I have found vCenter Configuration Manager to be scalable.

We have approximately eight clients using the solution.

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RP
IT Manager at sikraft

The scalability of the solution is quite good.

Currently, we have about 100 users on the solution.

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IB
Solution Architect & Presale at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. Our last project was for a company with a workforce of around 10,000 people.

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MG
Virtualization Admin at CTDI

This solution is easy to scale. You need to upgrade and have the appropriate licenses. 

I work in three companies and the largest one has approximately 500 users using the solution and the other two have approximately 15 users using it.

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GN
IT System Manager and Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability of the solution is very high because it can scale in or out, so it's very good. If a company needs a solution that can size up or down to fit their needs, this is it.

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LF
Pre-Sales at Star Tech & Engineering Ltd.

It is a scalable and reliable platform. It can accommodate a substantial infrastructure, including 600 servers, full NVMe storage, and 32 units of servers for larger businesses.

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SA
Managing Director at tathya technologies pvt ltd opc

It is indeed scalable. In terms of the number of users, we have three or four admin users. 

In this company, presently, there is not much scope for increasing the usage. It is currently able to meet their requirements. They're using it on a small scale, and they don't need all of its features. Whatever is there at the moment is sufficient for them. I'm not sure if there is an immediate requirement for expansion. They might scale up, but it is going to take time. 

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MW
Architect with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is also great. It can scale out as far as you want to go.

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MS
Technical Head at eSky IT

vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution.

In our company, we have 100 users.

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FG
Management Information System Officer at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees

We haven't had any issues with scalability. If a company needs to expand the solution's services, they can do so easily. From a technical perspective, it's possible.

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MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing

In terms of scalability, yes, most of the software that VMware produces is enterprise and scalable and they define the business connectivity and disaster recovery very well in most of their software.

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PankajKumar12 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability depends on the planning and the infrastructure that is in place.

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LD
Microsoft Architect at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

We have not needed to scale as of yet.

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SW
Pre-sales consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is best suited for medium to large-scale enterprise companies.

The solution is scalable.

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ZS
Director of Maintenance Systems Division Data Center at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

It's a scalable product.

We have more than 20 engineers using this solution.

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MS
Datacenter Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is very scalable. we have approximately 60 people in my company using this solution.

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ZH
ICT Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

vCenter is scalable.

Right now we don't have too many people using the application since we don’t need that many administrators on the environment, so less than 20 people are using it.

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AN
Datacenter Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Configuration Manager is scalable.

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