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Brian Kirsch
Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College
There wasn't a short list. It was the only solution. It's the only thing that made financial sense as far as being able to do what we needed it to do. Nobody out there had it.
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
Even if I decide to use a product, I cannot deploy it because my superiors have to determine the policy. Those superiors are not here locally. They are in Europe.
We don't use Veeam here, though I've used it at some point. Right now we don't use it in our production environment. We currently use HP Data Protector.
We evaluated other options like Salesforce and Microsoft Active Directory, which we only tested for production. The policies were on central management, so we only tested these solutions with our time. The applications we used were effective only when activated.
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March 2024
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We evaluated Edge containerization a while back, but we didn't notice any tools that would help us grow, so we decided to stick with VMware vSphere.
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Rangga Kusuma
Head Tim Infrastructure, and IT Security at Lembaga Penjamin SImpanan
I have evaluated Nutanix.
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AllanTrambouze
Consultant senior en technologie de l'information at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I did not evaluate other container solutions. For storage, I also use FreeNAS.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.
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Mohamed_Ashraf
Senior Product Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I did an overview on the Hyper-V, which is another solution. VMware vSphere was simpler and easier to use and had a lot of features. The Hyper-V must be installed on a Windows server which has a lot of vulnerabilities and it's not stable as VMware vSphere.
So after I did an overview I thought this solution is the best in the meantime.
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Michael Huset
Senior Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I've been with them for so long, I never looked to much else. I've always been happy with vSphere and seeing what they've done for VMware itself. Intel products weren't really there, and I still don't feel they're there.
I've really enjoyed the Dell partnership because I do Dell on the back-end. The hand-holding between Dell and VMware works relatively well, with their hardware control lists and being sure they stay compatible for long periods of time, without having to spend money on new hardware. You can stay in your swim lane. That partnership is really a key to success.
View full review »We looked at Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer, but VMware has always served us well.
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SenthilKumarGM
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We have compared this solution to Nutanix.
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reviewer939042
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
When we were looking at vSphere, we did look at some of the competitors. Of course, we looked at Microsoft Hyper-V because we're a Microsoft partner as well. However, it lacked a lot of the things that vSphere had.
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Brandon Morris
System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
We did take a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V platform. The city's always had a philosophy of, "Just because we've always used something doesn't mean that that's always going to be the right way to continue to go forward." So we did take a look at the Hyper-V Server 2016 type stuff. But honestly, in my opinion, it's not there yet. VMware was still the superior choice for the hypervisor.
View full review »No. I had started with VMware very early on, and adopted it when it became a viable enterprise product.
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Irad Dukad
IT Manager at ducart
We did not evaluate other options before choosing this product. When I started to use it about 15 years ago, it was the only tool option to work with.
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Leonardo Shewchenko
Information Technology Support Coordinator at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
My clients evaluated Hyper-V because they use a Microsoft environment.
View full review »I haven't really looked at too many other solutions, other than Hyper-V. VMware seems to be way better overall if you compare just those two.
View full review »Capabilities, as we do a bake-off to essentially evaluate options. We look at multiple vendors, and see if they meet X and Y demands, and see who does it best.
I have a list of things that I think I need, but it helps to see what others need and want as well. After seeing their pros and cons, we can reevaluate on what we need in our environment accordingly.
VMWare was the vendor that won last time, nobody wanted Hyper-V. We looked at Hyper-V and VMWare only, and nobody wanted Hyper-V. VMWare delivered far better test results.
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Allan Trambouze
Senior Consultant at Cofomo
I am using many solutions: IBM PowerVM, Hyper-V, Acropolis, and VMware.
VMware is the most natural product on the market at the moment, especially in virtualization. The other products are quite good too. I am not saying you can use them, because you can. They are stable now. However, with VMware, you receive more feature than with the others.
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reviewer924948
Senior Manager Systems/Network, Global Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We evaluated Hyper-V four or five years ago. They weren't as fast to develop technologies or even adopting the technology. There were some tools missing. Also, they were less innovative than VMware. Now, I think Microsoft has caught up a bit. However, it seems that VMware is putting a lot more R&D money into the product. So, we've been happy. We haven't had a need to leave.
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reviewer924351
Director, Windows Server Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
At that time, VMware was an innovator in this technology so it was a question of learning more about what they offered and taking advantage of it.
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I came into the environment where it was already in place. Despite that fact, I have test drove Hyper-V and virtual box to compare and get a feel for which is best. I am a believer in VMWare.
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PatrickBenson
Sr. Architect, Business Continuity at Sayers
I am constantly evaluating many solutions. I also regularly re-evaluate other solutions. The competition is improving, and VMware has done a great job improving as well.
View full review »Another solution in the same sphere is Hyper-V, which is quite good in terms of basic plain virtualization software. However, vSphere offers a scaled-up version.
View full review »We previously evaluated Hyper-V and RHEV.
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Rene Van Den Beden
Chief Architect at RoundTower Technologies
Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V is commonly on the list, and Red Hat KVM is the other one.
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Sean Crawford
Information Systems Analyst at San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
Nobody else was on our short-list. Hyper-V had come up because another IT office in our agency does use Hyper-V, but for mission-critical applications that are powering an operation, my opinion was "vSphere-only" and my manager's opinion matched mine. So there really was no other option, it was just vSphere.
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Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
Sr. Operations Engineer at Kamstrup
When we initially chose vSphere, there weren't any other products, so it was simple to select the direction we were going in.
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PrasadMane
System Advisor IT at CRIF India
We looked at a few alternatives and compared them to vSphere.
View full review »We evaluated another solution namely the SCVMM 2012 R2 solution.
View full review »Microsoft Hyper-V is giving them a run for the money as vSphere is more expensive. I’m already on enterprise version of Hyper-V, running both it and vSphere.
View full review »VMware has been the hypervisor of choice for a while, now we are seeing off-premise cloud technology like AWS, Azure and others. VMware is trying to allow you to move workloads on premise and off premise to those kind of technologies.
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Ganesh Sekarbabu
Windows Virtualization Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Five years ago, we planned to move from a physical to virtualization environment. We evaluated a lot of other hypervisors, did some PoCs, etc. We decided on VMware. For the past six to seven years, it's been a big journey.
View full review »We did not evaluate other options.
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reviewer1681332
IT Operations Support at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
Currently, we are starting on study for implementing the software design network, and I am evaluating options because I want to know the latest information about the products.
We are also evaluating NSX to implement it in the future.
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reviewer1266792
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
No, I evaluated just vSphere and Hyper-V.
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Trevor Napier
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Before I started with VMware, I did not have any other vendors on my shortlist.
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Raden Evangelista
Systems Engineerineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Some of our customers use Hyper-V because it is much cheaper (free). I've seen it and it has the features. It does its job if there's a problem to solve for a small company. However, if you're going to grow, I am not totally impressed with it. There's no support. I didn't see any add-on development features in the pipeline.
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Patrick Ringelberg
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No other options were evaluated.
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Thang Le Toan (Victory Lee)
CIO at Robusta Technology & Training
Yes, we did. vSphere 5.5, RHEV 3.3, HyperV 2012R2 and XenServer 6.2 and a comparison table is below. All are scored on a scale of 1-10.
View full review »No other options were evaluated as VMware has been the primary hypervisor since I have been with my company.
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reviewer1496229
Manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
We are looking for opportunities with Nutanix. We are looking at it now.
That said, we did not evaluate any other products before choosing this solution. However, many years back, we did look into Citrix.
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Rob Pease
IT Director at Jewish Family Service
For our initial look into vSphere versus others, we started with Cisco's version of virtualization. It was cool. It was free. But it was a pain. It didn't scale. When I started looking at the software we wanted to run on it, nobody supported it. That made the decision.
View full review »We chose vSphere because of it's ease of use, especially that it's easier than Hyper-V. Deployment would have been more labor intensive, and wouldn’t have saved any more money in the long run.
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Luis Gomez
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We looked at Citrix and we looked at Azure.
View full review »Hyper-V sucks, some of the other stuff isn't good. Cloud solutions are too expensive, if you're actually going to use them. We did a side-by-side comparison of Hyper-V and VMware and VMware was substantially better for performance and usability.
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ITAnalysac7f
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We are currently using VMware and Hyper-V.
Our shortlist consisted of KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware. We went with VMware back then because of its reporting, it was market leader, it has good support, and the price was previously fair.
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John_Jones
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We evaluated Cisco and Dell. We have been moving more towards Cisco's computing. We did evaluate Micro-Tech for switching since they have cheap switches.
View full review »When I first looked into virtualization it was back when VMware released vSphere 4. At that time I was interested in Citrix Xen and MS Hyper-V. I felt at the time VMware was the industry leader and was more mature so I trusted them above all others. I’ve been happy with the choice since, though for cost purposes I am really interested in Microsoft’s Hyper-V solution.
View full review »We evaluated Microsoft Hyper-V, but it seemed unfinished. Management tools are almost non-existent and hosts constantly need to be rebooted to install patches that are purely Windows related and have nothing to do with the virtualization itself.
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reviewer1441107
Owner at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
Proxmox is cost-effective and good. For example, if we have some projects where the hardware is provided by our customers, and we can use any technology we want.
Proxmox, in most cases, is good for creating some development and staging environment. Because it's cost-effective, we can afford to have a solution based on that technology.
In most cases, I know that it's not limiting us in terms of the operating systems we use, and my team is quite happy when using such solutions. But it's not the production solution that we use at the end. It's mostly temporary for a few months, and we are using it because of the cost and because there will be an easy way to deploy. We can start to use it and move our environment between the projects. It's quite easy and quite quick.
With different technologies like Grafana, we gain information from infrastructure and application-level from different sources, and we integrate it into a different solution.
However, monitoring information could always be improved. Integrating with the application level could be improved, and monitoring could also be extended to that. Providing us with a more complex and just a one-click solution for seeing everything, how the infrastructure and how integrations are behaving, and the levels of infrastructure and application services would be a nice solution to have.
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SystemAd3999
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We abandoned one vendor and looked at two others but I can't name them. We dealt with one vendor for five years and we bailed as quickly as possible.
View full review »I fell into VMware. I so far like the marriage.
View full review »I’ve always used VMware ever since the beginning, so I’m biased and I think they have a great product. I’ve played with Hyper-V and it’s just way behind in my opinion. Download them and try them all out and see if you like using the tool daily. Research and troubleshoot well.
View full review »Of course we continue to look at the competitors to see what features are coming. In my opinion, it doesn't matter because VMware is still ahead of the competition.
View full review »Nope, it was the best from what we heard.
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reviewer1173861
Global IT Infrastructure Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We reviewed a couple of options and at that point in time, VMware was one of the strongest players. This was especially true because they had a lot of partners and integrators in the region, which quickly led us to choose them. Selecting another solution would be more challenging for us, especially in getting the required support.
I don't think that we're going to expand further or improve upon our current solution. We are now investigating to what extent the public cloud offerings are a better match or solution for our use cases.
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reviewer1447761
Assitant Director - IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're currently in the process of evaluating other options on the market to see if there are open-source options that could work for us or products that scale even better than vSphere.
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Walmik Wankhede
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We compared with Nutanix, IBM, and HPE. We got all the technical details, benefits, and functionality.
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Reviewer3064
Head - Server and Storage at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my previous organization, we used Hyper-V for over eight years.
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Sajag Chaturvedi
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer
When we started with VMware, we also tried Citrix XenServer. We considered them as well as Red Hat's platform.
View full review »vSphere is fantastic but the reason I'm doing research is that I deal with different vendors, they use different technology, they use Red Hat KVM. The other one is using Hyper-V, so that's why I want to do some research. vSphere is the most popular virtualization technology worldwide. Ninety percent of the world uses vSphere.
View full review »We evaluated vMotion, HA, FT, and VDS.
View full review »No other options were looked at.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No but we have compared it to Hyper-V and XenServer as they have come out with new versions. Hyper-V we play close attention to but XenServer we no longer follow.
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When I decided to test the virtualization architectures, I ran tests with several architectures to determine important factors that would affect our business and operations in a positive aspect for growth while still maintaining low ROI. Microsoft and Citrix were the other competitors.
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reviewer1515015
General manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
I am not familiar with the company looking at or evaluating other solutions.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
We have evaluated NSX VMware and VMware vSAN, but we have certain requirements and found vShpere to be more suitable.
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reviewer1362096
Pré-vendas at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Although vSphere is still a very useful option for visualization, some clients are trying alternative DevOps solutions for less critical sites. However, they use vSphere as an option for visualization in production.
View full review »The other options that we considered were Cisco, Dell EMC, and Nutanix.
View full review »We considered Hyper-V, but decided to go with VMware since there are certain applications which run better on VMware.
View full review »All in the market. Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM, PowerVM, etc.
View full review »It was already in place when I came into my position. I believe it was chosen because it's the best on the market. Hyper-V isn't at feature-parity with vSphere.
View full review »We had one Citrix server at the time and I believe we did a very high level evaluation of Xenserver, but VMware was more in line with our virtualization goals.
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reviewer1672974
Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have been researching vSAN and hyper-converged features.
View full review »I looked at native AWS as an option. My preference is Oracle VM versus this solution.
View full review »When we chose VMware, of course we checked other vendors like Microsoft because it's present everywhere; even the open-source KVM. But we decided Microsoft wasn't at an enterprise stage and the open-source one was nice to use but, since there was no support, it wasn't suitable to offer to our customers. We didn't have any doubt choosing VMware.
View full review »Before choosing this product, we compared it with Mic.
View full review »I reviewed Hyper-V, but everybody uses VMware. We really only looked at VMware though as consultants recommended it. I knew I wanted to go there.
View full review »As I said, I work with more than one virtualization technologies. Beyond VMWare vSphere, I've worked with Microsoft Hyper-V, which is a great virtualization solution too.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We evaluated Hyper-V.
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ITInfras287c
IT Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
At the time, Hyper-V was putting its foot in the water and Citrix was another competitor. But VMware just seemed to be a little more on - I don't want to say on the cutting edge - but they were the leader in the space at the time so we decided to evaluate them. The evaluation went fantastically so we decided to choose them as our vendor.
View full review »We did not evaluate other solutions, it was the only leading product in 2007.
View full review »I tested it myself in my lab. Also, I visited some companies which work with this product to see it in action.
View full review »We considered using Xen/KVM, but we didn’t want to spend much time on the configuration and wanted to start working on the product out of the box.
View full review »We considered Red Hat's KVM offering. The different subscription models (license plus maintenance for VMware vs annual support for Red Hat) would have resulted in more money spent on Red Hat in year six, and every year thereafter.
View full review »No other products were evaluated.
View full review »We looked at Red Hat but the VMware solution worked out better for us.
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Michael Perry
Vice President at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees
Considered Hyper V.
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Not on this occasion but I have assessed other hypervisors.
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We did take a look at Hyper-V, we considered KVM, but it really came down to Hyper-V and VMware and, in the end, because of VMware's market share, it became a no-brainer solution for us. We went that way. Once our management made that decision, I was able to push and show them all the features and the abilities that they were unaware of at the time they made their choice, to really enhance what we were doing.
View full review »No evaluation was done.
View full review »No other options were evaluated.
View full review »Potential vendors have got to provide a benefit which is hopefully not an additional cost. Or, at least be able to make up for that cost somewhere else.
View full review »We evaluate other options, but VMware is centuries ahead other solutions of virtualization. Microsoft Hyper-V is the closest, but not reach the level of VMware. Open Source solutions was not considered at initial instance, they do not apply for a serious project of virtualization.
View full review »We just looked at the different licensing options.
View full review »I have tested other products such as Hyper-V and Zen, but I believe that vSphere is more stable and has many more features available.
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Daniel Aramayo
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.
We evaluated a lot of options like Microsoft Hyper-V and Proxmox, and Red Hat Virtualization
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reviewer1377360
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We contacted Hyper-V but have never used it.
View full review »Yes we looked at Xen server, but we had issues with VM stability. This was over 8 years ago though so obviously that isn't likely the same anymore.
View full review »We have migrated from the previous version without evaluating other products. For our development environment, we are evaluating whether or not to migrate to a product without license costs.
View full review »A quality product is number one, and a strong company is number two, good support. If a company is not going to be around, then I won’t choose to spend millions of dollars on my equipment.
View full review »No other options were evaluated.
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reviewer1363245
CIO at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We also tested Microsoft Hyper-V, but at that time, it was unstable. It was not stable enough to be implemented in our environment. That's why we didn't use it.
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NetworkA3fbb
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
We did not look at anything else. We just looked at VMware.
View full review »We did evaluate other hardware options such as a hyper-converged solution (Nutanix, Simplivity, HP) and better storage options (Nimble, Tegile, etc).
We also evaluated other software options such as Hyper-V.
Our current solution met the needs of our users and the price was very reasonable.
View full review »There were other competitors out there that we've evaluated that just fell short of this implementation because of their feature set or some of their security vulnerability.
View full review »When choosing a vendor we look at
- Support
- Usability
- Cost
You should also talk to someone knowledgeable not just online research – someone who can help cover questions that wouldn’t normally get covered.
View full review »Hyper-V is gaining traction but VMware is currently still the way to go.
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- Hyper-V
Yes, KVM and Xen (both opensource), and although they have no upfront costs, these are countered by very high operative costs.
View full review »No, it was the only well-functioning solution on the market at the time.
View full review »- Hyper-V
- Oracle VM
We evaluated lot of alternatives, both standard infrastructure and HCI infrastructure. Coming from a previous VMware vSphere installation, we choose the same product for continuity.
View full review »Due to the simplicity of vSphere deployment, the ease of management, and the small footprint of its hypervisor, we decided to use it without wasting time on other products.
View full review »We evaluated Microsoft Hyper-V.
View full review »Five years ago I used vSphere in a small data center that needed to go virtual. vSphere was more mature than other solutions, and I did a lot of test devs with it and it proved its stability.
View full review »This was the only solution we looked at.
View full review »We've looked at Hyper-V, Citrix, Openstack, but we continue to use vSphere, because it’s a market leader – it’s a stable company, not going anywhere.
25% of the server costs are now going to VMware; it's expensive. The stability of the company is always important to look at though.
View full review »To be honest, I didn’t try Microsoft, or Citrix, so it's difficult to compare, but I'm used to it and it works – works great.
View full review »Just VMware, my previous job we used it, and it was great. I’ve been a customer for a long time now. I just want something to work, and I know VMware does.
View full review »We tested Hyper-V, and it was awful.
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Yes, XenServer and Hyper-V are often evaluated by customers.
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Yan BENOIST
Entrepreneur at WindiS
I didn't really evaluate any other solutions. I haven't even really looked at Hyper-V, although my clients sometimes ask about it.
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Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
Virtualbox, Xen Server and KVM
View full review »We evaluated the Oracle VM solution.
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Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
The products we looked at prior to this one were Hyper-V and RHEV.
View full review »No other options were looked at.
View full review »Before choosing we didn't evaluate any other options. It was planned to use the VMware as the first queue and the MS Hyper-V as the second one. The reason is in the migration plan of the servers - in the second phase it would be the MS SQL server's, so the MS Hyper-V is more suitable.
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Barna Kosa
IT Services Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
When comparing this solution with the others, it is very similar or a bit better.
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Costinel Tunsoiu
Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are looking for other solutions, specifically for Hyper-V and domain controllers.
View full review »I had used it before at a former company two years ago, so decided to use it at my current employer, so I didn’t take the company through an evaluation process.
View full review »Go ahead and buy it. I always go with VMware.
View full review »We do an evaluation every few years. We've looked at Microsoft, and ORACLE. I look for continuity, as I need a solution that will be also be available for me in two years etc. I also look at peer reviews, and think that they are very important.
View full review »We looked at Microsoft, and we looked at the viability of the product, technical support, and ease of use. VMware was chosen because of its ease of use, and the product itself.
View full review »No as we've been using before any other virtualization software was popular.
View full review »We did not evaluate other options.
View full review »We evaluated Xenserver.
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reviewer1468668
Executive Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have evaluated other hypervisors and based on my experience, I find that vSphere is top-rated.
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reviewer887736
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
About two years ago I tried XenServer, but it stopped because I tried to use Veeam's software which wasn't compatible with XenServer. So I chose VMware.
View full review »vCenter is the only way to manage vSphere. If we speak about enterprise virtualization infrastructure, there are no special preferences.
View full review »As I previously mentioned, we evaluated Hyper-V and Xenserver, but we decided to stay with VMware as a result of the features offered.
View full review »We did an evaluation of Microsoft Hyper-V, and it's not there compared to VMware. It's where VMware was five years ago.
View full review »We tested Hyper-V - but this was back in 2009. It was very basic then.
View full review »We didn't evaluate other options.
View full review »No other options were evaluated.
View full review »We did a trial run of Hyper-V. We didn't switch, but Microsoft is very aggressive and tried to leverage the licenses that we had already bought. We also looked at Citrix.
View full review »Yes, did a comparison between Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare. In the end, VMWare won the battle of evaluation.
View full review »I also evaluated the Microsoft solution.
View full review »We didn't consider any other vendors because all the other vendors didn't have the great support and the great features that you can expect from VMware.
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- Citrix
We looked at a couple others and VMware was just better because of vMotion, its ease of management, and the interface.
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Yes, Xen and Cloudera.
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No, we never evaluated any other options.
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My customers also looked at Hyper-V and XenServer.
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virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- OracleVM
- Citrix Xen
- Proxmox
- Hyper-V
No other options were evaluated.
View full review »I always look at the technical support, product availability, and product stability when selecting a new product. We just looked into vSphere though as there’s nothing else like it.
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Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Yes. Hyper-V, Xen.
View full review »We also looked at Microsoft Hyper-V v2.
View full review »I would highlight compatibility with hosts, ease of use, consistency, reliability – all things that are better than Hyper-V.
View full review »No other options were looked at.
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