VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi

810 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VMware ESXi	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.	N/A

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VMware ESXi

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VMware ESXi
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	VMware ESXi
Considered Both Products	VMware by Broadcom David Riberdy Enterprise Data Management Supervisor in Information Technology at Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware ESXi Neither of these two products have really been a 100% replacement for VMware ESXi but they are getting closer and closer and with the new licensing agreements that VMware is trying to push out, could start eating at the lower hanging fruit. VMware ESXi still has some nicer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi VMware stacks really well compared to competitors as it has a good reputation in the markets, and clients trust the virtual machines in regard to their data. It also provides better reliability and performance as compared to the competitors, which makes it a clear choice for … Incentivized Helpful? Brendon Brown eComerce Director in Information Technology at Island City Media (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware ESXi ESXi continues to lead the pack in compatibility, simplicity, reliability, support, everything. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hein Systems Engineer in Information Technology at CIH (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi I think it is better than Hyper-V. The gap has possibly narrowed, but it is a more robust product. Time will tell if that stays the same after being acquired. Incentivized Helpful? Richard Potts Network & Systems Administrator in Information Technology at College Foundation, Inc. (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi While running through a proof of concept with Hyper-V and VMware ESXi, I found VMware ESXi to be much easier to deploy, administer, and work with overall. Both products are good but I personally found ESXi to be more intuitive to use and the deployment options were also more … Incentivized Helpful? Satchidananda Rout Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Orange Business Services (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose VMware ESXi VMware ESXI is straight forward dependable hypervisor, with some users experience consistent server uptime even during hardware failure and other setbacks. It requires few hardware resources, making a minimal impact on its host machine. Deploying new servers with VMware ESXI is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi ESXi continues to improve the platform whereas Hyper-V has stayed pretty stagnant over the years. Incentivized Helpful? James Jakimowicz Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Synergy Fiber (Computer Networking, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi At the time we did our comparison we found that VMware scaled much better than Hyper-V, lighter weight, and much more reliable. My recommendation if Hyper-V is needed for anything such as Windows containers, is to use nested virtualization and installing Windows Hyper-V within … Incentivized Helpful? Luke Kuhlow Network Administrator in Information Technology at First National Bank and Trust (Banking, 201-500 employees) Chose VMware ESXi VMware ESXi excels in comparison to Microsoft's offering due to integration with Linux, its bare metal approach and its ability to function off of a thinner hypervisor. It allows for better integration with application appliances in my opinion due to its non-Microsoft nature. … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli System Administrator in Information Technology at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware ESXi While Hyper-V also can work very well and can have licensing benefits, it does rely on Windows in order to run. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can add another layer of potential failure and might not be running on as low of a level as ESXi does. The footprint for H… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi It's hard to beat Hyper-V when it comes to ESXi. Although Hyper-V costs nothing to use, it does require a Windows license that permits you to operate at least two virtual machines (VMs) on the Hyper-V server. I found that VMware ESXi consumes fewer resources than any other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi VMware stacks up well to just about every product on the market and will keep your business running with high availability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi VMware ESXi is a lot more robust and resilient than MS Hyper-V. However, Hyper-V is more convenient and economical because it comes with Windows Server. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi The vSphere management interface is going to be web-based and you access that through a web browser by browsing to the IO address of the VMware ESXi host itself and then from there you'll be prompted for a login screen. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi Price: same (both free). Management: VMware ESXi has a much better management interface. Performance: Same. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Funk IT Director in Information Technology at Clark County Juvenile Court (Government Administration, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi As long as you're using Nutanix AOS on Nutanix hardware and are paying their software support fees, AOS is a valid competitor to VMware and can save money due to not needing a license and having their server management system built into the base host management system. If you … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Sen System Administrator in Information Technology at CNM LLP (Accounting, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi Compared to VirtualBox, VMware ESXi feels a lot more enterprise-grade when comparing the two. As ESXi is a VMware product we knew the level of quality and support we would receive from the vendor. VirtualBox is an open-source platform for virtualization and we liked the fact … Incentivized Helpful? Terry Schultz IT Consultant in Information Technology at Makiska Media (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware ESXi VMware ESXi stacks up nicely against Hyper-V. VMware ESXi is a smaller footprint, the one thing Hyper-V has is cost it is free with the purchase of a windows license that allows you to run at least two windows VM's within the Hyper-V server. But VMware ESXi is still the leader … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi Hyper-V utilizes more resources compared to ESXi and it gets affected when it is used to scale up and installation on Microsoft windows is easy however it does not stand to the ease of access of ESXi, a user of ESXi would find it difficult to migrate to another application. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi VMware has been the #1 vendor for virtualization for 10 years, is used in top incorporations, supports almost every software around there, and runs smoothly with every hardware vendor. The con is the price, it's the most expensive solution. Incentivized Helpful? Arvind Kumar Senior Consultant - VMware & Infrastructure in Information Technology at Versetal Information Systems (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose VMware ESXi Easy to manage, standard licenses and bundle licenses are customizable, provides a much more stable infrastructure. Cost-effective, Comes with special features like HA, DRS, FT. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi Much more reliable and well-integrated than competitors, with a solid central management console. Citrix is having good performance but requires a specific kernel to leverage, HyperV is good only for windows OS. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi The main issue I found with Hyper-V is that it has to run on top of Microsoft Windows. This obviously uses a considerable amount of resources, even without "Desktop mode". With ESXi running on a linux based OS, this allows the maximisation of the available resources and a much … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

VMware ESXi

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of VMware ESXi
Feature	VMware ESXi 8.2 128 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	8.0116 Ratings
Management console	9.0128 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	8.0112 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.0116 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.0117 Ratings

User Ratings
	VMware ESXi
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (129 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (55 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	5.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (2 ratings)