VMware vSphere Other Solutions Considered

it_user171321 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Engineer VMW Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees
BK
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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BS
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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Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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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RK
Head Tim Infrastructure, and IT Security at Lembaga Penjamin SImpanan

I have evaluated Nutanix.

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AT
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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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.

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MA
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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MH
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.

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it_user366615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We looked at Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer, but VMware has always served us well.

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SK
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We have compared this solution to Nutanix.

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CB
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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BM
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. 

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it_user194427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No. I had started with VMware very early on, and adopted it when it became a viable enterprise product.

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ID
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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LS
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.

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Ryan Dave Brigino - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Es'hailSat

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.

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it_user320091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Tools Analyst at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

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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AT
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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PG
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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CW
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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it_user127791 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Representative at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
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. View full review »
PB
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.

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Ajay Dand - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder Director at Ninesec Integration Pvt. Ltd

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. 

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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

We previously evaluated Hyper-V and RHEV.

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RV
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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SC
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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MJ
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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PM
System Advisor IT at CRIF India

We looked at a few alternatives and compared them to vSphere.

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it_user541089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated another solution namely the SCVMM 2012 R2 solution.

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it_user331866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief General Manager at SVC Bank

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.

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it_user320484 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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GS
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. 

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it_user281958 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 10,001+ employees

We did not evaluate other options.

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GF
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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AP
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No, I evaluated just vSphere and Hyper-V.

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TN
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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RE
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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PR
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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VL
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.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

No other options were evaluated as VMware has been the primary hypervisor since I have been with my company.

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SM
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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RP
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.

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it_user321357 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Maricopa County Community College District

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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LG
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We looked at Citrix and we looked at Azure.

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delete - PeerSpot reviewer
delete at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

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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CT
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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JJ
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.

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it_user379716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user353388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director & Head of Technologies at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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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SG
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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CH
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.

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it_user515508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

I fell into VMware. I so far like the marriage.

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it_user320235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user386772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Manager at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user320199 - PeerSpot reviewer
IS Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

Nope, it was the best from what we heard.

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RK
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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VA
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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WW
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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AB
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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SC
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.

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it_user882975 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Developer/Engineer at Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)

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.

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it_user547797 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Support Engineer at TMN

We evaluated vMotion, HA, FT, and VDS.

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it_user300507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineering Associate Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were looked at.

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BB
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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it_user77823 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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. View full review »
SP
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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SK
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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JL
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.

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it_user855678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure Infrastructure Architect at Wireless Car

The other options that we considered were Cisco, Dell EMC, and Nutanix. 

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it_user802905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We considered Hyper-V, but decided to go with VMware since there are certain applications which run better on VMware. 

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it_user373449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

All in the market. Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM, PowerVM, etc.

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it_user297714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user11286 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT - Server Administration with 501-1,000 employees

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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FG
Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been researching vSAN and hyper-converged features.

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it_user834129 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Cloud Business at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I looked at native AWS as an option. My preference is Oracle VM versus this solution. 

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it_user265812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at Clouditalia Telecomunicazioni

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.

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it_user367830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Before choosing this product, we compared it with Mic.

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it_user320238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Technical Support at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user292629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Support Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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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AO
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Hyper-V.

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TM
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.

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it_user694665 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Team Lead / Project Lead IT at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not evaluate other solutions, it was the only leading product in 2007.

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it_user419235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I tested it myself in my lab. Also, I visited some companies which work with this product to see it in action.

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it_user366684 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution lifecycle manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user332808 - PeerSpot reviewer
IS Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user313893 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No other products were evaluated.

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it_user313830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Systems Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

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

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MP
Vice President at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees

Considered Hyper V.

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it_user71133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Network at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Not on this occasion but I have assessed other hypervisors. View full review »
it_user938985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user312804 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Analyst at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No evaluation was done.

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it_user315288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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it_user321018 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Corporate Systems at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user237264 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator and Sr. VMware Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user293886 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We just looked at the different licensing options.

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it_user281973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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DA
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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MC
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We contacted Hyper-V but have never used it.

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it_user389040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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.

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it_user365892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user320934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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VH
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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JS
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees

We did not look at anything else. We just looked at VMware.

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it_user683454 - PeerSpot reviewer
DPSA III at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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it_user321048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Technical Engineer & Solutions Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user321036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network/Systems Administrator at Tidewell Hospice

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.

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it_user297123 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Support Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Hyper-V is gaining traction but VMware is currently still the way to go.

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it_user280956 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization and Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Citrix
  • Hyper-V
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it_user209226 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees

Yes, KVM and Xen (both opensource), and although they have no upfront costs, these are countered by very high operative costs.

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it_user183474 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, it was the only well-functioning solution on the market at the time.

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it_user332952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Researcher and Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Hyper-V
  • Oracle VM
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it_user420003 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user280818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user383799 - PeerSpot reviewer
VI Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Microsoft Hyper-V.

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it_user321669 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user333873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

This was the only solution we looked at.

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it_user320667 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user321078 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user320298 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Services Manager at Oden

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.

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it_user275226 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director with 501-1,000 employees

We tested Hyper-V, and it was awful.

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PatrickCiPaaS - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at SnapLogic
it_user88791 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Yes, XenServer and Hyper-V are often evaluated by customers. View full review »
YB
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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SM
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa

Virtualbox, Xen Server and KVM

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it_user685386 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Education Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We evaluated the Oracle VM solution.

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RR
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.

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it_user334191 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No other options were looked at.

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it_user167028 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administartor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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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BK
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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CT
Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are looking for other solutions, specifically for Hyper-V and domain controllers.

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it_user321375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at Mountville Mills

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.

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it_user250251 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

Go ahead and buy it. I always go with VMware.

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it_user320919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Leader - Server Technologies & Storage at a government with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user320928 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user300504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Vice President at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

No as we've been using before any other virtualization software was popular.

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it_user279879 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not evaluate other options.

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it_user132501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated Xenserver.

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ZB
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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SJ
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.

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it_user499017 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead System Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

vCenter is the only way to manage vSphere. If we speak about enterprise virtualization infrastructure, there are no special preferences.

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it_user363441 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deployment Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

As I previously mentioned, we evaluated Hyper-V and Xenserver, but we decided to stay with VMware as a result of the features offered.

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it_user320640 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did an evaluation of Microsoft Hyper-V, and it's not there compared to VMware. It's where VMware was five years ago.

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it_user282900 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

We tested Hyper-V - but this was back in 2009. It was very basic then.

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it_user363687 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software QA Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We didn't evaluate other options.

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it_user333861 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Architect - Enterprise Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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it_user300498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user215685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional IT at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, did a comparison between Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare. In the end, VMWare won the battle of evaluation.  

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it_user862539 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastracture Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

I also evaluated the Microsoft solution.

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it_user335937 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead - IT at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

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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it_user334206 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Microsoft
  • Citrix
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it_user321069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

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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it_user131937 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Yes, Xen and Cloudera. View full review »
it_user128259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
No, we never evaluated any other options. View full review »
it_user365877 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

My customers also looked at Hyper-V and XenServer.

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DL
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • OracleVM
  • Citrix Xen
  • Proxmox
  • Hyper-V
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it_user313041 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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it_user320268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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RR
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes. Hyper-V, Xen.

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it_user320502 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asst. manager System Operations with 1,001-5,000 employees

We also looked at Microsoft Hyper-V v2.

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it_user320607 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would highlight compatibility with hosts, ease of use, consistency, reliability – all things that are better than Hyper-V.

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it_user367833 - PeerSpot reviewer
ITC Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

No other options were looked at.

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it_user357519 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

No other products were considered.

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