vCenter Configuration Manager Scalability
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.
View full review »The solution’s scalability is good.
10,000+ users are using this solution. There is some percentage of growth every year.
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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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.
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.
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.
vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution. Around 15 to 20 users are using the solution in our organization.
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Janusz Turczynowicz
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.
View full review »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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Thomas Busby
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.
View full review »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.
vCenter Configuration Manager is scalable. There is a lot of flexibility.
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KareemEzzat
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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Moses Shilunga
Project Manager at Swakop Uranium
The solution is scalable.
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Raju Pawar
IT Manager at sikraft
We can scale the solution as needed. It's not a problem.
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reviewer930504
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution.
View full review »We have 300 vCenter Configuration Manager users in our organization.
View full review »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.
View full review »There are about 500 to 1,000 people in our organization using vCenter. Our environment contains around 200 servers.
View full review »It is scalable enough for our company.
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Arnin Frederick
IT Manager at Inelectra, S.A.C.A.
vCenter Configuration Manager is scalable. I really like it.
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Anil-Bherwani
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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Noor Parkar
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.
View full review »I have found vCenter Configuration Manager to be scalable.
We have approximately eight clients using the solution.
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Raju Pawar
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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IlanBen Shetrit
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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MohsenGoli
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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reviewer1384830
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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Lyas Feroz
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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Sayantan Adhikary
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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Michael Wilmsen
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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Mohamed Shatla
Technical Head at eSky IT
vCenter Configuration Manager is a scalable solution.
In our company, we have 100 users.
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Francisco Gimo
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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Mahdi Bahmani
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.
View full review »Scalability depends on the planning and the infrastructure that is in place.
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reviewer1264674
Microsoft Architect at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
We have not needed to scale as of yet.
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reviewer2088159
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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reviewer1304046
Director of Maintenance Systems Division Data Center at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
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Mamadou Lamine Sarr
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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reviewer1222275
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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reviewer1228122
Datacenter Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Configuration Manager is scalable.
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