VMware vSphere Scalability
Vikas Dhumale
DevOps Engineer at Simple Logic IT Private Limited
It is a scalable solution. Many people who use the product in our company work in the back end processes. Around 20 to 30 people in my company work with VMware vSphere and Kubernetes.
Egor Marachev
IT systems engineer at VeriFone
I would rate the scalability a solid eight out of ten. It is scalable enough for my needs, but there is always room for improvement.
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it_user171321
Sr. System Engineer VMW Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Yes, multiple VM within one vLUN sometime cause random IOslead to performance issue. Although it is fixable, but still, when you are using large vLUN, you need to understand if that vLUN can provide sufficient IOPs for VMs that use that vLUN.
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VMware vSphere
March 2024
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SigfridCecillon
Director at Arsium
It is a scalable solution. Around 20 to 30 customers are using this solution.
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Brian Kirsch
Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College
I have no issues with scalability. As large as we have wanted to go with as many VMs, we have never had an issue pushing its limits.
The majority of the issues are truly integrating it into the Active Directory structures. This doesn't seem to be there yet.
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
VMware vSphere is a very scalable solution. The only thing is if you are to upgrade, i.e. from ESXi 6.0 to 6.7, you might not be able to use your older servers. I believe VMware will not support these after ESXi 7.0.
For newer servers, VMware is scalable. We can always use it at least. The only issue I may have is we may not be able to use our older servers with the newer versions of VMware ESXi.
In-house users number about 110 to 115. We have customers that login into our servers. We have web applications that customers log into from outside.
Around 2000 to 5000 customers use our vSphere installation per day.
We have billing people that are working there with our customers. We have operation people that are in the field that are using various equipment that is connected via wifi to our systems. Then we use the VMware network to carry our own operations and activities.
We have customer service people that attend to customer inquiries, to try to resolve customer issues, but are still logged into the same application. There are various roles from read-only customers that want to pick one information or the other about their product on our sites. They don't actually update anything except they want to transact business with us.
We use vSphere to help the users as well as to manage users that need information regarding a particular product or report. Users generate various reports from our SaaS/PaaS applications.
The staff we currently have are about five in IT. We have the manager, we have infrastructure persons that consist of system and network. We also have a database specialist that manages our applications. Our database specialists also serve as the developers for the application support. We have user support teams. The various support people that we have dedicated for the maintenance of the VMware vSphere deployment is about five in total.
We should still be able to support our users, at least, for the next five years. After five years, we may now be thinking of upgrading the infrastructure. This solution is being used every day, i.e. 24/7/365 days a year.
We believe that there's been increased usage, but we just implemented it last year. From our plan, we know that at least for the next five years we may not upgrade.
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NipunaNakandala
Senior System Engineer at V S Indormation Systems
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Our company's main customers who work with the solution use it in sectors like banking, finance, and government.
My company deals with small, medium, and enterprise-sized customers who use the tool.
Prince Verma
Cloud Infrastructure consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We are a client-based organization. The number of users depends on the clients. There might be 5200 people using the product in our clients’ organizations.
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Endalkachew Admasu
Manager of Computing and Storage at CBO
The solution is scalable. 5 users are using this solution.
I rate the solution’s scalability an 8 out of 10.
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Johan Odendaal
Server Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
From the way we set it up, it is relatively easy to scale as long as you've got the planning in place for where you're going to. We use something called blade technology, and that is relatively easy to scale.
There's a total of ten people that are actually on the solution at any given time.
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Abbasi Poonawala
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's quite scalable. You can keep scaling up the number of VMs you want to create. As I mentioned, we create thousands of VMs, so yes, we can scale easily. That's a capability I would look at from a business goal perspective. Any business leader will want to scale up their hypervisor. vSphere is pretty much the hypervisor.
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Senior Systems Analyst at Manufacturing Organization
We're able to scale with density. I think that's the most important part. The clusters are allowed to go to so many nodes. We don't even touch the number of nodes per cluster. We traditionally have multiple fault zones in the data center, really for a comfort level, not because of a technological level. I know we could push the equipment a little bit harder but we generally like to keep things in a comfort zone that is constantly moving northward. So scalability is limitless and we have not really touched the capabilities yet, but we know the capabilities are there when we are ready to use them.
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Martin Coloumbe
IT Solution Architect at KnowledgeOne
It is easily scalable, and it can be scaled without any impact on the availability of the production environment.
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Zack Baraci
Systems Engeneer at Wurth Australia Pty. Ltd.
VMware vSphere is highly scalable, and I rate it a ten out of ten. My company has 400 users.
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Youssef_Hmani
IT INFRASTRUTURE CONSULTANT at Hyfi Cloud Computing
It offers good scalability. I would rate it eight out of ten. It's a small organization, with one hundred users.
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Sameer Gusain
Technical Lead at Sopra Steria
I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten. We have a huge environment with VMware infrastructure for multiple users.
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Tommy Myo Min Aung
Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling
The scalability of this solution is 10 out of 10.
For this solution, we don't have an end user environment, but for our servers and our whole VM infrastructure, there are around 500 to 1,000 users. I'm not sure if we are going to increase our usage because, nowadays, most organizations are moving to cloud, but we have on-prem solutions in most cases.
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AllanTrambouze
Consultant senior en technologie de l'information at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
vSpshere 7, like the previous version, is easy to scale up and down. vSAN is the same, and Tanzu as well. vSan need less space for is own management and it is integrating some features like a virtual witness node that improve the scalability. Other new functions inside vsan like file sharing is also a great addition for vsan scalability.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
The scalability is great. This solution is highly scalable and compatible with almost all IT hardware on the market.
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Fritz RichardQuiras
Cyber Security Engineer at Trend Micro
The case of scalability of this solution is easy in a hybrid setup so I would rate it nine out of ten.
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Francis KACOU
Head of Service and Storage Infrastructure at GS2E
VMware vSphere is a scalable product. We had about five host servers, we gradually increased to 10, and now we have approximately 40 host servers running long VMware vSphere. It is simple to add a new server to the clusters.
We are a group of four administrators who are working on a solution. However, with VMware vSphere, we place software for the company, such as customers.
When I refer to the company, it's not the outside customers, I am referring to employees in company fields such as HR and accounting. We have 5,000 people working in our company, and they are all using the VMware vSphere software that we provide to them.
It is used on a daily basis because we are constantly confronted with the extension of results such as CPU, RAM, and storage. We use vSphere on a daily basis.
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reviewer1578723
IT Supervisor at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now.
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Mohamed_Ashraf
Senior Product Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Of course VMware vSphere is scalable.
In our 15 member team, all of us work on vSphere. We are all system operation engineers.
Overall, we just require two people for deployment and maintenance.
Of course we'll increase our license in the future. Our business needs to improve every time. So we'll use it extensively.
Benjamin Hlophe
Director Of Technology Operations at Kutleng Engineering Technologies
We tried to plug in more hardware, but the drivers were not seamless. We are using the OEM version for HPE because we are using HPE. It could be because it is yet to work with HPE hardware. HPE hardware works with Mellanox, but it just couldn't take Mellanox. We downloaded the Mellanox drivers from their website, but it just couldn't boot, so we had to roll back.
We have three administrators. The number of users varies over time. We started with 24, and because of COVID, we've reduced the number of people who can work in the office to about five.
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Jason Hong-Turney
Lead IT Systems Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Being that it's reduced our resource footprint, I think its very scalable.
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Stephen Parker
Systems Engineer at BYU Idaho
So far, we haven't had any issues at all with scalability. We've got over 1,500 VMs, about 84 hosts right now, so it's been very scalable for us.
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Kevin Williams
IT Analyst I at Los Rios Community College District
So far, we've really enjoyed the scalability of it. The main thing that we have to accommodate for is licensing, making sure that we have enough license to cover our expansion.
Otherwise, we just throw a few more hard drives into our server array and make sure that we have enough storage.
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Michael Huset
Senior Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I can always go horizontal, vertical is a little problematic sometimes. Horizontally, being able to add storage on the fly - even hot ad-hoc remove, if we do have some higher workloads or the like - we can always scale that without re-booting, with the newer operating systems. So the scalability portion is always on key.
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Datacenter Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We encountered no issues with scalability.
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HemantJoshi2
TEM Practice at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution's scalability is also good because you can scale using your required hardware. At the same time, the VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter combination can allow you to scale up to a decent level. Around 100 users were using the solution in our organization.
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Ajay Dand
Founder Director at Ninesec Integration Pvt. Ltd
The scalability is top-notch. There is nothing to complain about. It scales quite well.
We have about 50 to 60 customers that use the solution.
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SenthilKumarGM
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The architecture has been redefined and the scalability is good. In the previous editions, we had boot failing issues but they have resolved them and introduced a new model of high availability in vSphere for vCenter. Scalable is just a single click and is very easy.
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reviewer939042
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Scalability is really great. Being able to have a customer who decides, maybe a year after they've purchased their hardware, that they need to add another server because maybe they've decided to purchase a new product - being able to scale that system out really helps a lot.
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Brandon Morris
System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
For our environment, the scalability has been great. I've been with the city for about three-and-a-half years. We had about 100 VMs at that time, and now our account is well over 500 and the solution has simply grown to fit that need.
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Tommy-Li
Manager for Middleware at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate the solution a seven out of ten for scalability.
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Michael Ogunlade
Head of enterprise systems at Fidelity Bank Plc
I believe that VMware vSphere is scalable.
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Nitin Pande
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. I have around 200-plus servers with me.
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Luis Arencibia
IT Operations Services Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it.
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Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Not at all. Scalability is one of VMware strengths. Running out of resources has really never been an issue, as it is easy to add new hardware, and/or storage, and expand existing infrastructure.
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Zahid Eshaque
Managing Director at CompTech Network System Ltd
The tool is very scalable.
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Pavol Schreiber
Manager at TCX
We haven't encountered any limitations with vSphere's scalability. At the same time, we usually do not install huge server farms here in the Slovak Republic, so we only use VMware for small installations with a few host servers. I don't think we'll reach the limits of VMware's scalability since we only work with small organizations.
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Michael-Kierum
Principal Consultant at Absolute Precision
The solution is very easy to scale, especially when you are trying to scale resource availability and the management of the solution. You need to have a degree of transparency across all those environments.
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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It's very scalable because you can create a cluster. You can add a cluster and add another server in the nodes or in the cluster which you have created.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The scalability is very good. You can scale down or scale up provided you have the right licensing.
There aren't users on the solution per se. Our IT team is mainly involved with it. That's it. We have three engineers that manage it.
I'm not sure if we will expand this product. It depends on what might happen next as one of the things that we will be embarking on is HCI technology. VMware came into HCI, however, there are multiple vendors such as Dell or HPE. It depends on how everything turns out in terms of the IT strategy. They're not that cheap.
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Irad Dukad
IT Manager at ducart
The scalability depends on the hardware. If your hardware allows you to expand, it shouldn't be an issue.
Every year we increase storage, and therefore we regularly increase usage. However, I am planning to replace our current storage.
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SeniorSyb3f0
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
Scalability has been the goal all along here, to be able to meet in the middle of the scalability, horizontally and vertically. We have over 10,000 users.
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Monitoring Tools Analyst at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
We don’t have many users, and right now, it’s just me who's running this solution. For the VMs, we’ve been able to get requests from my internal customers to just improve on the sizes, and it works very, very well.
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Ahmad Ali
Infrastructure System Engineer at King Saud University
In our organization, we have at least 60,000 users.
It is being used extensively. It is one of the core products in the infrastructure.
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Ali Gursoy
IT Manager at Cobantur
Scalability is very simple. You can improve or expand it as needed. It's not a problem at all if you want to expand it out.
vSphere is for managing an organization's solutions management software. The size is not based on the number of users. Only IT, those responsible for managing the system center, or the hardware, or software of the solutions really have access to the product.
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reviewer1261665
VMware Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
I'm not sure of the exact number of users, however, we do have the solution installed on 4,000 machines.
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Sid Sharma
Lead QA Analyst at Loomis Express
It is simple in terms of scalability. There are no issues.
The whole team uses vSphere to create ThinApps that are used by all of our employees. We have close to 5,000 users. So, we are using it quite extensively.
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Udom In
Information Technology Manager at The Olympia Medical hub
The scalability is good for everything we have been using the solution for. We have three IT users using this solution, if we upgrade our hardware we might increase usage.
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RavindraBhojwani
Logistics and product Manager at a security firm with 11-50 employees
VMware vSphere is a scalable platform.
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Allan Trambouze
Senior Consultant at Cofomo
The scalability is very impressive. As usual, VMware is able to scale out and up all their solutions.
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Daniel Pietrasanta
IT Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It's simple to scale and the upgrades are pretty simple as well. The upgrades were straightforward. We just installed a new HPC and GN and we deployed everything in there.
However, I prefer to erase completely and reinstall, from the top.
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reviewer924948
Senior Manager Systems/Network, Global Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is easy to scale and obtain as much power as we need. It is easy to provision and join it to the cluster. We haven't had any issues or limitations.
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reviewer924351
Director, Windows Server Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future.
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IT Representative at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I think the only limitations with scalability are related to the ESXi host machine itself. If it is not configured with enough horsepower, then it wont be very scalable. However a simple machine with an intel i7 processor, z87 chip-set, Intel nic cards, and 32 gigs of ram has the ability to run multiple servers with ease and speed.
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Stefano Panigada
Specialist SE Manager at Dell EMC
It is scalable. In our country, I believe 50% of the customers are running vSphere virtualization.
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MinaMagdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
The solution is scalable to an unlimited number of hosts.
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Tony Reeves
Network Administrator
Scalability works pretty well. You can start out at a couple of hosts, based on your business needs, your budget. That's probably the base recommendation I would start out at for having some of the DRS and HA failover capabilities. But if your business grows, you can easily add a host and a cluster and expand your capabilities on storage and compute. If you're running vSAN, you can run on the storage side, too.
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Founder Director at Ninesec Integration Pvt. Ltd
The scalability is excellent. I do not see any other solution that comes close to this product.
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DesktopS0c59
Desktop Support Supervisor at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It's highly scalable. We've grown, we've doubled our size, and it has been easily scalable for us: slide in a new host and then attach the host to the vSphere client and then push the profile out. It makes it really easy.
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Ali Yazıcı
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
VMware vSphere is scalable.
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reviewer1158117
Assistant Consultant with 10,001+ employees
The solution can scale and expands well. If a company needs to expand, it can do so.
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MUKUNDKULKARNI
IT Manager at KIRLOSKAR PNEUMATIC CO. LTD.
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Mohamed Fathi
IT Manager at pioneers
The solution is scalable, to add storage is easy.
We have approximately six administrators that use the solution in my organization.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is certainly scalable.
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ForrestWu
Sr. Manager IT at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Scalability is fine. We don't have too many virtual machines because we're moving to the cloud slowly. That's why we don't have an issue with that.
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Igor Schwarz
Presales Engineer at Emet Computing
Scalability has not been a problem. Israel is a small country, so the level of service is less.
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Rene Van Den Beden
Chief Architect at RoundTower Technologies
It scales very well. Now, with vSphere 6.7, it's 128 hosts. Talk about scale with vSphere is now a non-issue. Typically what we do with our customers is deploy vSan clusters, typically 20 to 30 hosts, because that's a natural failure domain. Going beyond that, it really makes no sense, because you want to have separate failure domains.
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Sean Crawford
Information Systems Analyst at San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
Scalability for vSphere 6.7 has been a major enhancement compared to 6.5. That is because of the technical features they've added that allow you to scale further away from your primary data center, such as vMotion over long distance, etc. It's made things better for us.
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Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
Sr. Operations Engineer at Kamstrup
The scalability of vSphere, for my company, is perfect. It easily fits in, but we are way ahead of what is the theoretical limit.
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Infrastr7d14
Infrastructure with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have grown our environment, introduced new hosts, taken old hosts out. We have some 1,500 VMs running inside of all of our environments now and that has been a slow growth. I don't know how long it took us to get there, but we've grown to that level and it's never once given us a problem. From the interface, you see how much CPU utilization and RAM utilization that each one of those hosts is giving you. You can tell ahead of time when you need to start expanding the environment. And with VMotion, you expand the environment and then let DRS have at it and walk away.
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Senior Architect at Art Van Furniture
It's scalable. It's comparable to other similar products.
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Manager - System Engineering and Storage at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
SRM has been a disappointment in its scalability and reliability.
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Virtualization Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Phenomenal. Multiple 32-node clusters and 6.0 can support 64 nodes. Don’t know if we will get that large because it gets unwieldy, and will be hard to vMotion all of that off one host onto another and patch within a reasonable amount of time. It’s so condensed in clusters that it makes it hard to maintain.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Again, it’s simple as popping extra hosts in. Quite easily scalable.
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reviewer1119762
Information Technology Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
You can easily scale the solution as needed. It's great in the sense. There are no issues around scaling.
We have about 35 users at this time.
The solution doesn't use up a lot of space, however, I can't say if we plan to increase usage or not just yet.
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PrasadMane
System Advisor IT at CRIF India
In our organization, we have 600 users.
My previous organization had a population of approximately 35,000 people.
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Gabriele-Pizzigati
Senior Software and Systems Engineer at SAMU.IT
VMware vSphere is a scalable product.
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reviewer1602309
IT Manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
The product is very, very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so without any issues.
Our clients have users that vary anywhere from hundreds to thousands. Quite a few people are on it.
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กฤษฎา รวยเรืองรุ่ง
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
As you can set up various environments, vSphere is very scalable. In the future, we may consider switching from vSphere to Hyper-V.
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Information System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VMware's strategy is a step away from Windows. In the future, they will focus on virtual appliances. The only pain is it's risky to migrate from vCenter Windows to a virtual appliance.
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Chief General Manager at SVC Bank
It goes hand in hand with growth of our business. We've used the enterprise edition and moved from 5.5 to 6.0 with no issues.
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Program Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is great – it allows us to be more resilient and more disaster resay organization. We can move workloads across the organization and keep uptime high.
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Walid Mouamar
Network and Security Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For our business case, the scalability is good enough.
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reviewer1232400
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
All the features of VMware vSphere fit our organization and are compatible.
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Ryan Dave Brigino
Software Engineer at Es'hailSat
The solution is quite scalable. We ordered a solution where the initial number of nodes is just three, however, after the design, it can grow up to 64 nodes.
If it's deployed on a hyper-converged solution, yes, it will be scalable.
Only the system admins use the solution. There are around not more than 10.
We plan to continue to use the solution and to scale it up, as we build out our infrastructure.
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Ganesh Sekarbabu
Windows Virtualization Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Since we have an internal cloud, suddenly people may require 1000 or 2000 VMS in something. We have options to analyze and make sure we have enough scalability.
We have some issues but so far it has been good.
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David Grimes
VP of Product Engineering at Navisite
Scalability on vSphere has always been important for us, because of the scale at which we operate. We had a client, who maxed out under the VMware 5 limit of 32 hosts per cluster. So, it has been great to see the continued improvements in scalability. At the VM level, the limits are no longer practical impediments. Now, at the VMware cluster level, we're also seeing sizes which can operate pretty much any large client environment.
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Senior Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very, very good scalability. Four years ago, we had 300 VMs across 32 hosts, now we have 2000 VMs across 132 hosts.
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System Engineer with 10,001+ employees
No. The ability to expand the capacity of the vSphere environment is one of the core capabilities of the product.
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reviewer1390341
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. In my organization, we have about 2,000 users. Its usage is very extensive. We use it daily.
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Bilal Aslam
Founder & Technology Advisor at EUC Solutions
In the three years that I have been running my consultancy, I've found that VMware is always part of a large project. Most of the time, I have had a good experience with it.
We have done multiple enterprise services projects using this solution. For example, we were working on a Horizon View PoC for a client.
vSphere is scalable; you just have to add to your cluster and it will increase. You can scale up or scale-out, like any other software. Basically, you can add to it as much as you want to.
I trust VMware products and I definitely want our installed base to increase. I want to enhance my own knowledge and skillset, as well. As we move forward and expand, I am equipping myself with more cloud knowledge and focusing on new technologies. One new product that I am looking at is Carbon Black. Throughout this, I will continue to promote VMware because they are a vendor that I trust.
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reviewer1681332
IT Operations Support at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
VMware vSphere is a scalable product.
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Domingos Francisco
IT Administrator at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
The solution is easy to scale.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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Karthikeyan Chinnadurai
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We implement this product for medium and large-sized companies. It is easy to scale.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
It is scalable. In my company, we have a lot of end-users, but around 16 users are involved with VMware products. We have different projects, and each project has around 10 users.
Our teams have a specific structure. We have an operational manager. After that, we have different technical teams. I am a Senior Infrastructure Architect, and in my team, there are around eight engineers. Out of these, five engineers are involved with VMware products, and two or three engineers are involved with the network and storage concepts.
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reviewer1266792
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it's very scalable. It's easy to scale.
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Trevor Napier
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I can build out hundreds of hosts, but my environment's not that big. It is not as big as most of the larger companies out there, so I've not hit a bottleneck yet in terms of scalability.
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Robert Cox
Systems Engineer at Vestmark inc
The scalability has been good, as far as the vSphere and vCenter go. We've had to add more hardware, but it's scaled pretty well. We haven't really had any issues with it.
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Raden Evangelista
Systems Engineerineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
It is very scalable. Soon as I switched to a vSphere environment, ESXi, and vCenter, I was able to buy hardware and add it in. I just had to buy another license, since the infrastructure is there. It takes me a short amount of time to add something that benefits everybody.
It scales vertically. In terms of horizonal scaling, it depends on what the requirements are for it.
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Senior Vice President at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Minimal issues encountered.
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Patrick Ringelberg
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
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Thang Le Toan (Victory Lee)
CIO at Robusta Technology & Training
No issues encountered.
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Myo Ko
General Manager at Access Spectrum Company Limited
VMware vSphere is a scalable solution.
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Chris Childerhose
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON
There are no scalability issues other than purchasing additional licensing when adding hosts or scaling up/out.
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Emmanuel Nguyen
System Engineer at Anetys
The solution is scalable.
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SandeepMenon
Manager at SSMS
The scalability is very good. We haven't seen any issues with expanding it if we need to.
There are about 15 to 20 users on the solution at this time.
While we don't have current plans to increase usage, if the business grows, we likely will.
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reviewer1346730
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
The solution should be scalable. However, I've never managed one of the node clusters, so it's hard for me to comment. It's easy from a small cluster to add nodes. How well they behave when you go beyond the 20, 30 nodes, I don't know.
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Stephen Krujelskis
Senior System Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability is great. It's easy to scale.
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Preston Lasebikan
Lead Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
As far as scalability goes for us, I've run it as far as having up to 100 hosts in the cluster and I haven't noticed any degradation. It's been running well.
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Rob Pease
IT Director at Jewish Family Service
The scalability is insane. It's great.
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System Administrator at Maricopa County Community College District
- We had a lot of standalone boxes, and management wanted to go to VMs
- We were able to consolidate all hardware without purchasing anything extra
- Able to carry us through several years when unable to purchase hardware
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reviewer1344021
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is thoroughly a scalable solution. It's easy to expand it if you need to.
There isn't a specific number of users. We are using it for hosting services.
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Neeraj Mehra
Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
It is easy to scale.
We scale with VMware vSphere as well as vSAN.
We have customers with hundreds of servers running on vSphere.
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reviewer1502625
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have more than 60 people using the different platforms. The functions include several web developers and a lot of finance applications which are running on Oracle and on different RDBMS's.
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reviewer1081776
Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scaling is very easy. Just build it, acquire a license from them and add it to vCenter.
We have about 2,000 people in our organization, and everybody has some server on there that they do something with. It may be file services, file servers, or Citrix XenApp servers. Most of our VMware environment is our legacy servers because they still support older operating systems that I can't put on Hyper-V or AHV. For example, we have a couple of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers. VMware is the only hypervisor that I can run those on.
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Muhammad Tanvir Ashraf
Systems and Network Administrator at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC
I cannot make a prediction about the scalability, but I can tell you that we have close to five hundred users at this time. We must keep up with technology so we do plan on expanding the use of this solution.
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Luis Gomez
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It's really simple to scale. Just add another server, add it to the cluster and, bingo bango, you're done.
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delete at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
For us, the scalability is good. We haven't hit any limitations.
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ITAnalysac7f
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It can scale linearly. At some locations though, we are using HPE SimpliVity to scale.
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Tom Pine
Lead Administrator at Comcast
It is easy to add stuff to the product.
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John_Jones
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
The product is very scalable. Since it is a virtualized environment where all the compute rides, it doesn't care about what is riding under it. Therefore, you can expand or shrink it as much as you want.
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VMware(VCP5), VMware Regional Academy Director at a university with 501-1,000 employees
For the college, not only being “vanilla”, we are also not a huge institution so scalability is not an issue.
For our vITA program, we had to find ways to get the most from our available hardware. We initially had old equipment from the college as they increased the use of virtualization. I actually embrace this approach since I have been in the technology field for four decades. I consider it a challenge to get the most from limited resources. If you have ample resources, time and money, you should be able to accomplish most anything technologically. The skill/talent, at least from my point of view, is being able to accomplish this without the abundance of time/money/resources.
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Senior Systems Administrator at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
I’m sure there were issues to contend with originally, but as the product matures it gets easier and easier.
View full review »it_user353388
Managing Director & Head of Technologies at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The vCenter makes scalability pretty easy.
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Sr. Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
It's very scalable. We currently have 10,000+ servers, and 80% virtualized, so scalability has to be there.
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Sukanya Satapanachai
Infrastructure Professional Service Team Lead at G-Able
The solution is scalable.
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Hans-Peter Volk
Head of Professional Services at Axians ICT Austria GmbH
We expand VMware vSphere daily. It's very scalable.
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reviewer1441107
Owner at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
To my knowledge, it's quite scalable and elastic in terms of providing bigger throughputs and managing higher volumes of requests at the end, but our cases currently are not like the biggest.
I think most of the solutions available right now are set up for the infrastructure. The hardware is enough for the performance level we want to have. It's enough, and if we wanted to improve it, there is space for that.
However, I can tell you that this solution was stable in my first project. Between 2010 and 2014, at a different company, the solution provided everything that I needed at that moment. There were no problems with scaling this solution.
However, we had problems with the hardware limits. We reached the limit, but it was quite good with vSphere solutions because even if we reached the point of having no hardware, like memory and computers, we managed to provide stable workloads for our customers. We gained the level of performance we wanted to have.
We were dealing with a complex situation dynamically, and the solution provided us with the tools, and the scalability was not an issue. However, we had problems with the hardware limits.
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Blake Grover
System Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I assume it scales really well. We tested it on a few VMs at the beginning and we've rolled it out to a lot of hosts and everything has been working great.
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SystemAd3999
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It's a scalable solution. We went from 200 test devices to 11,000 devices in three weeks, without any issues.
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NetworkAa4a7
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
As long as you got the ESXi hosts with the resources necessary, scalability isn't a big problem. We don't really lock down a lot of our clients which are still within our organization. We don't really limit the resources. If it becomes an issue we'll look at that, but for the most part, it hasn't been a problem. If we look like we're getting a little tight on resources, then we look at getting and setting up a new ESXi host.
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Works at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
Not yet. As long as i have the infrastructure, the system works like magic. I can add hardware and servers as i want.
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Systems Administrator at CityServiceValcon
There have been some scalability issues. The Essentials Plus licensing is very restrictive and has no upgrade paths to other licensing models.
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Senior System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
No experience of scaling.
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Server Manager at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has scaled for us and the workload that we have that runs on it.
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Stevenson University Systems Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
No, however, I have seen scalability issues with each of VMware's direct competitors.
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IS Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
Not yet, we just switched over.
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JeanSpiteri
Infrastructure Engineer at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
VMware vSphere is scalable.
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reviewer1173861
Global IT Infrastructure Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Absolutely, vSphere is scalable. We have approximately 4,500 users connecting to this system and we increase our usage by approximately 10% per year.
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reviewer929742
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product can scale. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
We have two people using the solution at this time.
We have basically updated the hard disk size of VMware servers so that to accommodate the data of the existing clients. I can't say if we will scale beyond this.
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Kobus Almon
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt
The solution is easy to scale.
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Rajesh Mehta
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is quite good. You can scale it horizontally and vertically if you need to. It's quite flexible in that sense. A company that needs to expand it shouldn't run into any issues.
The solution can have ten to 15 nodes.
Currently, we use the solution quite extensively in our organization. We do plan to continue to increase the usage of the product in the future.
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reviewer1447761
Assitant Director - IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution can scale. If a company needs to expand it out, they can do so with relative ease.
There are four or five users that work directly with the solution, however, we have it deployed to many departments, so it's used quite a bit in the company. We have about 10-20 servers that are running on the machines.
Right now, we're happy with it, however, we may move to a different product that is even more scalable in the future, That's yet to be decided.
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Walmik Wankhede
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
The product is expandable, as per requirements.
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Reviewer3064
Head - Server and Storage at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its highly scalable, we have never had to make radical changes to the design to make it more, or to put in more capacity. So, as we are growing we have been adding the servers into the existing pool without even worrying about a need for redesign. As we grow, we find that our company is more dependent upon this product.
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Sajag Chaturvedi
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer
We are using it on a big scale. vSphere is one of the biggest product of VMware, and we have around five vCenters with around 80 hosts.
Scalability is one of the best things about vSphere. You don't need to change your design if you have a new demand for workloads or if a new product is coming in. Thus, the scalability feature is awesome.
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CIO9dd5
CIO at a library with 201-500 employees
We're not a very big shop, so it's not really appropriate for me to answer this question.
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System Developer/Engineer at Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)
Scalability depends on the infrastructure. The software can handle a heavy load.
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System Support Engineer at TMN
We have had scalability issues; we have backup plans if ESXi crashes.
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Principal Architect at Rackspace
In a global environment with all six data centers, we have so many hosts and VMs, that we work very closely with VMware to help push their maximums, and really push the envelope of how many VMs we can fit in a vCenter, and how many hosts we can fit in a vCenter to really help drive those maximums even higher for VMware.
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Senior Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very scalable, eventually do run into licensing costs, but the platform itself is scalable, almost infinitely. The business around it limits scalability.
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Analista de Suporte Sênior Especializado at TIVIT
The scalability of vSphere is amazing. No other virtualization manufacturer can even come close to the limits of vSphere's standards.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Again, VMware has been very good with staying ahead of the curve. As the demand grew for virtualization from businesses , VMware increased functionality to cope with growth at the hardware level. The ability to "scale out" or "scale up" physically on the host with zero downtime is very easy or scaling up on the guest is very easy with minimal downtime.
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Tomas Sajauka
Systems Engineer-Consultant at Blue Bridge Bond, UAB
VMware vSphere is scalable.
I am in Lithuania and we have approximately 100 customers. Most companies use some kind of virtualization. It can be VMware or Citrix, or something else. Our clients mostly use VMware vSphere.
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reviewer1478514
Database Administrator at a government with 1-10 employees
VMware vSphere is scalable.
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Huy Le Quang
Cloud Professional Architect at FPT Software
In terms of scalability and stability, vSphere is excellent. We lack volume when we need to bundle a considerable number of physical machines to facilitate virtualization. There are a lot of competitors like Nutanix or others, but VMware is the number one solution for me.
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reviewer1126809
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
The product is scalable. You can increase the number of servers. You can increase the number of computer resources, storage, CPU, memory. It's up to you how huge you want your clusters to be.
This is an enterprise solution. It is not used by users. It is an enterprise technology solution. Therefore, we won't be adding more users.
Almost all the engineers in the organization are using the solution. I would say maybe 15 engineers are actively using it.
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reviewer1515015
General manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
You can scale the solution very well if you need to. It's not a problem at all.
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reviewer1406361
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VMware vSphere can be scalable. We can scale it as much as we want, but it could be more scalable.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
It's a scalable product. We have 300 to 500 users in our organization.
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Sergei Terekhin
Head of System Architecture Department at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good on the product. It's pretty simple to scale up or down.
We have about 4,000 users that interact with it within the company.
We do plan to increase usage in the future if we need to.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at Computech Associates
It is a scalable product. Very few people are using this product because of less awareness in our area. We are based in a small town in India where we don't have IT and IT companies. IT is a part of the production process. There are very few people who are using this service.
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reviewer1362096
Pré-vendas at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
It is very scalable as it is the visualization benchmark.
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Network Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory.
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This is one of the strongest points in vSphere. I've had no problems with scalability. Although it is dependant on the underlying hardware infrastructure and its scalability/growth/space/etc.
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Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It scales without issues.
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Server Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I started in a very small environment with two hosts with 20 VM's and now we have 25 hosts spread across data centers and branch offices and much bigger clusters. The scalability is definitely there.
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IT - Server Administration with 501-1,000 employees
No. The original deployment consisted of virtualizing 32 machines. We now have over 100 VM’s.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We kind of just started off large, and kept getting larger.
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reviewer1672974
Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a scalable solution. We don't have any issues with the scalability of VMware vSphere.
We have 5,000 users in our organization.
Before we consider increasing the usage, we have to consolidate Windows Datacenter by applying an HCI infrastructure.
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reviewer1522935
Operation Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good. If a company would like to expand, it can do so.
In our organization, ten to 15 people are using the solution.
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Themba Sibiya
Senior Distributed Platform Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
This solution is scalable.
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Rommie Kaputin
IT TECHNICAL/ SERVER ADMINISTRATOR at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability in my experience is good.
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reviewer1016370
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The version that I have is not very scalable, although overall, the product is. I bought a limited version. We do not plan to increase our usage within the next year. There may be, later on.
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VP Cloud Business at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have not scaled it very high. I have only used it in small implementations. I only have a total of 190 people using the solution.
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Cloud Solutions Architect at Clouditalia Telecomunicazioni
vSphere is much more simple to scale than before, thanks to vCSA instead of the monolithic installation on VMware.
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Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We encountered no issues with scalability.
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System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at METRO SYSTEMS Romania
There have been no issues with scalability.
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Engineer with 51-200 employees
None at all, we can add hosts on the fly, we’ve expanded our SAN array from 1 to 3 shelfs without issue.
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VP, Infrastructure Management and Security Services at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We can dynamically scale within hours to meet our business demand, which use to take months.
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Manager of Technical Support at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
We’re growing only because we’re realizing that we need to switch from physical to virtuals, plus we are launching a few new products causing for new products. Now we’re going from two to three hosts. They’ve been great so far.
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Systems Support Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
No, this solution is prepared to expand or decrease as necessary.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
This solution is scalable - it can go up to 64 nodes on the cluster in terms of storage.
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Hani Ismail
Scrum Master - Digital Marketing at Vodafone
This solution is scalable.
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reviewer807690
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
VMware vSphere is scalable.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a scalable solution.
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Maan Othman
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
It's a scalable solution. We have between 10 and 20 users.
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reviewer1407546
Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We've never tried to scale the solution. I can't speak to how easy or difficult it is to expand it out if a company needs to.
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Fernando Tamariz
Information Technology Specialist at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
All of our servers and products run using vSphere. It is easy to scale.
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Arshad-Hussain
Director at OPEOPL LISTEN TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
The solution may be scalable. However, we haven't personally attempted to scale anything due to our general lack of funds and the expansiveness of the product. Therefore, I can't really speak to scalability so much.
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Josh Abercrombie
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It's scalable.
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Bobby Shirley
Desktop Support Specialist at Bank Independent
It is scalable.
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ITInfras287c
IT Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is also fantastic. We're able to add resources so that we can grow our clusters and provide more resources to our organization and to our business units. We're able to grow our application sets when required.
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IT Infrastructure Team Lead / Project Lead IT at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The software has been scalable, most of it depends on the physcial server's capacity.
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Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We have not encountered any scalability issues.
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Solution lifecycle manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
It's scaled sufficiently for us.
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IS Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We have not had any issues with scalability. We have seen significant performance improvements over time allowing us to increase our consolidation ratios.
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Operations Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
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Systems Services Representative at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Very scalable, and we can serve a wide range of clients with budgets ranging from $20 million to $20 billion.
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Principal Systems Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
Its been working out great for us.
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Michael Perry
Vice President at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees
None
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Senior Manager of Network at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Never encountered any scalability issues with this product. It is truly enterprise.
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reviewer1752153
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
I haven't had a chance to do any scalability exercises, just some tests, but not on real-time or on real production. Probably later I will get a chance to test scalability.
There are about 10 or 15 people using it directly in the environments and between 500 and 600 people that are enabled with the VMware.
We require just another engineer and myself for the deployment of VMware.
We probably will not increase the licensing for the VMware, but we will increase the load on the installation that is being handled by VMware.
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reviewer968889
Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VMware vSphere is scalable.
I have approximately 1,000 users using this solution.
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reviewer1596237
IT & Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very scalable. Its usage depends on each customer. We have small, medium, and large customers.
As a company, we are not a big consumer of VMware solutions. We do VMware deployments in other companies. We sell it to other companies, and we have a partnership with VMware.
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reviewer1553184
Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution scales well. It expands easily. If a company wants to expand, it can do so with ease. It's not a problem.
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Muljo Witono
CEO and Owner at PT Solusindo Total Teknikatama
The scalability needs improvement.
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C7843E
Technical Support at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is very scalable. We like that it is very functional and it has ability to access hyper-conversions. There is a capacity to grow the environment by adding the same type of equipment, and that really interests us.
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Customer Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Scalability is awesome because, for us, we do a lot of pods. We create pods and nodes and small clusters to do some of our R&D products. The ability to bring them up very quickly, very easily, without adding lots and lots of additional hardware, and without taking excessive amounts of time, and then tear them down, but just shove them on the back burner in case we ever need to come back to it - that for us is one of the biggest features that we could ever have.
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SystemsAe086
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We have a pretty static environment but, for our needs, it has been very good.
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Solutions Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
One of the issues that I've always had with the scalability of VMware, and maybe this is another area of improvement, has been the fact that a lot of customers will buy a small environment, the very minimum. They'll buy two hosts even though we recommend a three-host minimum. When they do finally but more hosts, the processors have changed and they have to dumb down the newer processors using EVC. I'd, therefore, like to see VMware come up with a better way of handling newer hosts. I think that that would really allow more scalability.
Now, obviously a lot of people are moving to the cloud and scalability is a moot point, especially for smaller businesses. I have a customer for whom we're moving their environment into the cloud, and they'll be completely in the cloud next year with vCloud. This would eliminate the need to purchase additional hardware that may be incompatible because of processors. That also affects the scalability of vSphere.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
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Manager of Corporate Systems at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very easy to grow out and scale.
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Sr. IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Can add multiple ESXi hosts and expand from there. We started with a minimum three node cluster with HP as backbone for storage for blueprint. We were able to move from a 1GBPS network 10 GBPS. We have now gotten up to 30-40 total nodes between all sites, but the main datacenter has 15-20 nodes.
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IT Administrator and Sr. VMware Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
None.
VMware vSphere is a solution that offers excellent resources optimization and utilization. The solution himself improves the data center management and resources utilization is many ways.
We can't think our data center without virtualization.
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VMware Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
ESXi allows us to grow dynamically and with minimum downtime.
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Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
No, I did not have any issues because it all depends on how the environment was configured.
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Fredrik Hallgarde
Consulting Manager at Real Time Services AB
It's absolutely scalable. We have 130 users who are using this solution. All of the company is using it.
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reviewer1702059
self-employed
The scalability of VMware vSphere has been very good for what we use it for.
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reviewer1437084
Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very scalable.
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reviewer1390431
Head Of Network & Technical Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I have found the solution scalable.
We have approximately 500 people using the solution in my organization.
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Daniel Aramayo
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.
It is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1377360
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a scalable solution. We have approximately 5,000 users, with 150 in the IT team and there are 10 in the admin team.
it_user389040
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's been very much scalable. When we started using it, we only virtualized a handful of servers. We've since expanded it to virtualize about 90% of our infrastructure at this point.
View full review »it_user365892
Project Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Only with big VMs -- over 64 GB of RAM or with disks over 2 TB -- are there scalability issues.
View full review »it_user320934
Principal Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very scalable.
View full review »it_user271026
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »SB
reviewer1347297
Engineering Manager, R&D at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good.
Mostly everyone in our company is using this solution including the technical team and managers, approximately 400 people.
View full review »VH
reviewer1363245
CIO at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its scalability seems to be straightforward. Obviously, you have to check if you have the correct license. Otherwise, you will have to change the license. Licensing can sometimes stop you from growing.
We currently don't have any plans to increase its usage.
View full review »JS
NetworkA3fbb
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
It's very scalable. You can add different components to it. Moving into the future, as we do different things, we'll be able to stay with VMware.
View full review »it_user683454
DPSA III at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
We didn't have any real issues with scalability. Anytime we need more storage or computing power it is relatively easy to just add another drive or physical server to the clusters.
View full review »FB
Firoze Bhorat
Senior Environments Engineer - Virtualised Environments at Derivco with 501-1,000 employees
We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »it_user385854
Principal System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have had no issues with scalability for the product. If you go above and beyond most of my needs, in terms of items like the configuration maximums, for the most part I never come close, so they're continually evolving the product so that it will be able to support things that are not even realistic at this point in time. It's very forward-looking.
View full review »it_user321048
Sr. IT Technical Engineer & Solutions Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my impressions of some of the capabilities and scalability of the vSphere products, it allows you to, without having to invest in a large hardware portfolio, it gives you the opportunity to scale on the fly through consolidation efforts.
View full review »it_user321036
Network/Systems Administrator at Tidewell Hospice
I think it’s great. It’s been able to grow even as we care for more and more patients.
View full review »it_user321525
Senior Systems Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's highly scalable. We needed to add HP hardware, and an HR cluster to accommodate recent growth, and it was just as simple as adding to the cluster, so highly scalable.
View full review »it_user297123
Operations Support Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5 is the biggest issue.
it_user280956
Virtualization and Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user209226
System Administrator at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user183474
Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Monitor your RAM usage closely and you will be fine.
View full review »PM
reviewer1739175
VMware PSO Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It is easily possible to scale the solution and upgrade depending on which products we are using on-premise. We can have a path to scale, to upgrade, to do everything.
View full review »LO
Luca Olivotto
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
it_user332952
Researcher and Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
No, not with dedicated servers. Yes with ephemeral servers- hundreds of PCs that we like to use as ESXi hosts at night for executing virtual machines focused on computing simulations.
View full review »it_user420003
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability with these kind of nodes is fantastic, because you can scale out with any resource you want.
- Storage space (each server has 24 hard disk slots).
- RAM can be upgraded to 1.5TB for each node.
The only problem is that it’s not possible to scale on CPU. So if you want to scale on CPU, you have to buy 3 CPUs in one shot (with numbers of core), or buy another node. We know HCI work in this way.
View full review »it_user414402
Technical Director at ADMI France
We have had no issues scaling is to our needs.
View full review »it_user321048
Sr. IT Technical Engineer & Solutions Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It grows beyond belief. In my situation, because Im always dealing with corporate, I have shown that virtual machines can scale to whatever we have asked it to do. If we need to scale we can, and the hardware just needs to be ordered, and setup.
View full review »it_user320124
System Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We’ve only scaled a little bit. We’re not super large, but it definitenly is somewhat easy to scale up. The hardest part is the physical connectivity to disparate networks, which VMware can’t really control.
View full review »it_user321261
Sr. Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very scalable, and you can add more as needs dictate. It depends on the ratio and goals for consolidation, so you can scale as you need.
View full review »it_user280818
Systems Engineer at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
VMware helps scaling with VMware vSphere is just easy by adding more ESXi hosts to an existing cluster, and then vSphere DRS will does the work for you like monitoring resources and spreading VMs to balance workloads on all the hosts between that cluster.
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OscarMunoz
Jefatura del Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información at SERGEAR SAC
I have found VMware vSphere to be scalable.
We have approximately 25 users in my company using this solution. All the employees are using the solution.
View full review »MS
Mohab Samy
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
It's a very scalable solution. Every release includes scalability.
We have 200 to 300 customers who are using it and we have plans to increase our usage.
View full review »VC
reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is scalable. You can use a cluster with 216 nodes. I believe it can be scaled much more.
We use vSphere to create virtual machines and give them to our customers. Most of the applications are on it, so we have around 8,000 to 10,000 users on five different clusters. In terms of our plans to use this product in the future, we are currently thinking about whether to continue using this solution or not.
View full review »SM
ITProfes763a
IT Professional with 5,001-10,000 employees
From my point of view, it scales really well; in terms of storage, I don't know.
View full review »it_user383799
VI Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
There were no scalability issues as such. However, it depends on the license that you buy.
View full review »it_user385836
Virtualization Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Probably VMware should consider of lifting the maximum number of VM's per vCenter which is 15000 now(10000 powered ON and 5k powered off). The number has been consistent from a long time.
Also, VMware should raise the number when it comes to SRM/vREP.
View full review »it_user321669
Sr. Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very scalable and easy to deploy.
View full review »it_user331992
Senior System Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We’ve needed to scale and have had no problems in deploying nodes into clusters and getting their profiles. It’s very simple.
View full review »it_user333873
Director of IT at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user320466
Network/Systems Administrator at South Plains Electric Co-Op
We started with maybe 10, we’re up to 80, and it’s been very easy to add them all on.
View full review »it_user320667
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Very scalable, I don’t think we’ve hit a limit. Were running 2000 virtual machines on 50 hosts and that’s one data center, and we haven’t nearly hit our ceiling.
View full review »it_user321078
IT Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Really high.
View full review »it_user320298
Technology Services Manager at Oden
We have scaled, from about one server to three now. Its very easy to just scale up.
View full review »it_user275226
IT Director with 501-1,000 employees
The stability is perfect, as long as you can afford it.
View full review »PatrickCiPaaS
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at SnapLogic
it_user88791
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
None, if you have the resources you can easily scale out (or up)/down depending on your scalability requirements. Autodeploy, host profiles and customizations are a great help here. Further vCOPS will give you valuable capacity management options.
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Yan BENOIST
Entrepreneur at WindiS
In terms of scalability, I haven't really had the opportunity to address this as my customers are not very big companies and we have relatively small data centers.
SM
Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
Depends on your budget
View full review »it_user321198
Cloud Automation and Integration Focal at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's got excellent scalability. There are no applications that can’t be virtualized now.
View full review »it_user685386
Technical Education Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We did not have any scalability issues.
View full review »RR
Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution has scaled well.
View full review »it_user418209
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »it_user334191
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user321318
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
You can go as big as you want
View full review »it_user321009
Network Analyst at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It’s fairly scalable, as we have over 2000 people, 120 branches across different provinces, and it can support our environment.
View full review »it_user321261
Sr. Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very scalable and increasingly so because of what they’re doing with applicances. There's no trade-off between maximums of Windows and appliances.
View full review »it_user167028
System Administartor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No. If you would plan an infrastructure from the beginning, you would not encounter any issues.
View full review »BK
Barna Kosa
IT Services Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This solution can scale to extremely large environments, it is very scalable.
We are a company of 35 people and we are using this solution. We have a lot of customers that we are providing consulting and support for VMware.
View full review »CT
Costinel Tunsoiu
Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's a scalable solution. We have three people in our organization who are using this solution.
View full review »MM
reviewer274092
Vice President with 1-10 employees
The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels. We currently have 2000 users. This requires four engineers to run the deployment and maintenance of the solution.
View full review »it_user284274
Technical Director - IT Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
That's one of the great things about vSphere -- its scalability.
View full review »it_user321375
Director, Information Technology at Mountville Mills
Use it very little, but can scale much more. Only have five or six blades, with 10-12 hosts, and 140 VMs.
View full review »it_user250251
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees
It's easy to scale.
View full review »it_user274569
CEO with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »NW
reviewer1487706
Head of Technical at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's a scalable solution.
View full review »MW
ITManageb049
IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees
Scalability is great.
View full review »it_user367836
IT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We hardly ever have issues with scalability.
View full review »it_user320919
Group Leader - Server Technologies & Storage at a government with 501-1,000 employees
It's perfect.
View full review »it_user320928
CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Easy to scale – able to scale out as we need.
View full review »it_user320598
vSphere Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I would go with unknown at this point – we're kind of small, at best were medium sized, so we're not sure what our scaling needs will be. It is not close to the maximum.
View full review »it_user316464
Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
There's no concern of scalability, and it gets better with each version. The only issue was with the FT portion, but with 6.0 no concern because it’s capable.
View full review »it_user279879
Programmer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Haven't yet needed to scale.
View full review »it_user132501
Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
With the right amount of resources, additional host and servers can be added within minutes.
View full review »ZB
reviewer1468668
Executive Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This is a scalable product. Our entire business and virtual machines run on vSphere, and our customers do, as well.
View full review »RT
reviewer1351206
Directeur Production, Infrastructure et Architecture IT at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. We have 100 users, and we plan to increase the usage.
View full review »SJ
reviewer887736
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
The scalability is also very good.
View full review »it_user499017
Lead System Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are no scalability issues.
View full review »it_user363441
Deployment Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I did not encounter any issues with scalability. This is much better now.
View full review »it_user332244
System Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
It scales well.
View full review »it_user331854
Senior Systems Administor at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
It's infinitely scalable, if you have the money.
View full review »it_user321165
Network Engineer 4 at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It's fantastic, able to go as big as you want to go, so long as the backend and databases to support are big enough.
View full review »it_user320640
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It's infinitely scalable.
View full review »OscarMunoz
Jefatura del Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información at SERGEAR SAC
We currently have 25 employees using this solution with another 20 users who work remotely.
We have two people managing vSphere.
NB
reviewer1445340
Director Global Security at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
This is definitely a scalable product and it is used in a virtualized environment.
View full review »CR
Carlos Rodriguez
Pre-sales engineer
It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily.
View full review »PC
WindowsSbd99
Windows Systems Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't had any scalability issues yet. I don't foresee us having that issue. We're small enough that, if there is a case where it wouldn't scale, it's not going to be discovered by us.
View full review »it_user282900
Infrastructure Engineer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees
I did not encounter any scalability issues for the VMs.
View full review »it_user363687
Senior Software QA Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Scaling it is not an issue.
View full review »it_user333861
Sr. Architect - Enterprise Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are only slight issues.
View full review »it_user321645
Technical leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Using vCenter and AVS, we can create easily, and transparently, a VMM (virtual machine manager) domains. In general, we can scale easily.
View full review »it_user321366
Vice President, Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very scalable, we have three core data centers and six to seven virtual data centers, and whenever possible, we consider VMs as first choice (can’t disclose numbers).
View full review »it_user321339
Sr. Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
There's no issues with it.
View full review »it_user321339
Sr. Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We add one or two VMs every six months, and the only issue was with Sharepoint 2013 that required dedicated memory.
View full review »it_user300498
Senior IT Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
This products works quite well with scaling.
View full review »it_user161850
Assistant Design Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalable to any level.
View full review »JC
reviewer1738062
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I am satisfied with the scalability of VMware vSphere.
We have approximately 20 people using this solution.
View full review »SY
reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
It is a scalable solution.
We have 150 customers in our organization.
At this time we do not have any plans to increase our usage.
View full review »it_user862539
Infrastracture Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
It is very easy to go up with servers and licensing.
View full review »it_user375447
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We've been able to scale out at deployment time to match our predicted future needs.
View full review »it_user335937
Technical Lead - IT at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Scalability, you can just add hosts to the vSphere solution for whatever you need.
View full review »it_user334515
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
It's extremely scalable. Our limitations are our own creativity. The key is understanding the business need. If you understand that, scalability is only limited by forecasting. You must know your own products.
View full review »it_user321069
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Easy – very easy, expecially with Nutanix. It takes longer to get the hardware than to deploy it.
View full review »it_user285072
Technical lead - Infrastructure Consulting / Transformation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user131937
Works at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
vCenter comes with strict licensing which is not only expensive but also not realistic.
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it_user128259
Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We had plenty of room to increase our environment so there is no problem with it.
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virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Not yet, but I haven’t gone full scale yet with VM in the 10K area.
View full review »it_user280935
IT Systems Administrator at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
No, but I guess cost is the main obstacle.
View full review »it_user98646
Virtualization Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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reviewer1379943
Product Management & Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VMware vSphere is very scalable.
View full review »DN
reviewer935562
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
it_user313041
IT Systems Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user339246
VMware Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user320268
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Not much experience, so I wouldn’t know.
View full review »it_user321027
Systems Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's extremely scalable. The ease of being able to add a new server or host in, and get it compatible with what's going on gives us a lot more functionality to get that host up and running.
View full review »RR
Engineer353
VMware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
I haven't seen any issues with scalability.
View full review »DL
virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability of the solution is excellent.
View full review »it_user320502
Asst. manager System Operations with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »it_user411975
Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I did not encounter any issues with scalability.
View full review »it_user320607
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think it's really good, it's good for our size and for our future growth. Our company has around 12,000 users.
View full review »it_user367833
ITC Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We haven't had any issues with scalability.
View full review »it_user357519
Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »ES
reviewer1333554
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very scalable. It is great in terms of scalability. We have 50 to 60 users in our organization.
View full review »AU
ReviewerU8183
Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
I would rate the scalabilty as an eight out of ten.
View full review »Buyer's Guide
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