VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere

290 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VMware vSphere	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	An enterprise workload platform, vSphere is used to improve the performance for a data center. It is used to boost operational efficiency, supercharge workload performance, and accelerate innovation.	$995 per year

Pricing

VMware vSphere

Standard: $995.00
per year
Enterprise: $3,995.00
per year

Pricing Offerings
VMware vSphere
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	VMware vSphere
Considered Both Products	VMware by Broadcom Virender Kundu CM(MS&IT) in Information Technology at ACD-HAL (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose VMware vSphere VMware vSphere is leader in virtualization segment and ease of use and manageability is very easy and integrated with more vendors in ecosystem like Redhat openshift, VMware vSphere is directly integrated whereas for Nutanix you require third party tools. VMware vSphere is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere Hyperv is great for limited vm build out, low cost companies, and limited in size organizations. Microsoft has a great product but its just not a robust and scalable as vsphere is. Citrix's platform is great for simple virtualization needs and for special 3D graphics … Incentivized Helpful? Steve Athanas Associate CIO in Information Technology at UMass Lowell (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSphere vSphere is superior to any other on-premises hypervisor that I've personally used or heard about. vSphere is the de facto industry standard, receives substantially more partner support and investment, and benefits from a significantly longer maturation period than other … Incentivized Helpful? Md Tanjil Islam Bappi Senior Manager in Information Technology at Omega Exim limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware vSphere vSphere provides more control over the Virtualization environment. It allows users to have great management User Interface with lots of dynamic features. VM creation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere We could not migrate to AOS then due to limitation by SAP supportability. A few months after going live, there was a whitepaper saying that AHV will now support it. We continued to use vSphere. It has given us what we need to be agile and extremely efficient with our hardware … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere I have never used another product like vSphere. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer in Information Technology at Azusa Pacific University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSphere vSphere simply is best-in-class for its features and functionality. It does guest OS management, thin provisioning, deployment, management, networking, vMotion, and automation better than all the rest. vSphere is always the first to implement new and advanced features and push … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Zef Data Admin in Information Technology at Zef Enterprises, LLC (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware vSphere We came from VirtualBox where every user had their own VMs and was responsible for managing them. Turns out that's not a great solution when people leave or when disaster strikes. Further, the performance was abysmal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere We have tried a few other virtualization platforms, and even though you do pay for the support, it's worth it for the extra you get. Datastore migration, host migration affinity rules are all tools we use that others don't seem to have. And if they do, they don't work as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere There's no comparison, VMWare is the market leader. It's pricey, but its feature set is years ahead of the competition. In particular, the ability to manage a large fleet of servers across multiple sites through a single pane of glass is great! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere We have a very small environment of Xenserver. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere We opted for vSphere because of our IaaS/PaaS provider. Being one of the pioneers in server virtualization, VMware have proven to be quite reliable and robust, and thus widely adopted by virtualization service providers including ours. Also, the price is noticeably lower using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere Requires specific set of hardware where VMware works on everything Incentivized Helpful? Alessandro Spada It Director in Information Technology at South Glens Falls CSD (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSphere We started testing our virtual infrastructure back 9 years ago we test XenServer but it was too complicated for us. When we tested vSphere from Vmware, It just worked, all we had to do was click. At the time, we were looking to have a virtualized video security server and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere No other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere I have only used Hyper-V on a workstation. Not to the same standard as VMware. From what I have seen, VMware vSphere console has a whole lot more features but I cannot fully tell you that one is better than the other. Incentivized Helpful? Jewemars Christian Riano System Administrator in Information Technology at UnionBank of the Philippines (Banking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSphere I researched on the web and upon stumbling on millions and millions of articles, found that vSphere is a technology that was leading in the magic quadrant at that time. The technology was able to cater to the business needs and requirements for its vision and goals. The … Incentivized Helpful? Akos Krommer, CISA, ACDA Solution Specialist (Data Analytics) in Information Technology at Revival Europe Ltd. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware vSphere In terms of security, VMware has made important security enhancements, which now provides the same security features and level as Hyper-V. In terms of scalability, VMware improved scalability, which supports up to 64 hosts in the cluster now and it can now accommodate more than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere vSphere is much easier to use for a larger enterprise and also is easier to set up than Hyper-V. XenServer is simply not popular so while not a bad choice it is not the best because so little will be available for it. I cannot speak to the latest versions of Citrix since I … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Haberkern Network Engineer Supervisor in Information Technology at City of Santa Maria (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees) Chose VMware vSphere vSphere is superior to Hyper-V. I have had several issues in Hyper-V that I have not experienced in vSphere. vSphere just works. It costs more money, but it works. I am curious to see the outcome of the Microsoft licensing model as they try to take on VMWare with Hyper-V. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere It is the best for the value and the main other option is Hyper V. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hartwig Security Analyst in Information Technology at WatchPoint Data (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware vSphere vSphere is more robust than VirtualBox and is widely used so VSphere is the product of choice to avoid compatibility issues. Incentivized Helpful? Hans Huang Systems Administrator in Information Technology at OMIC (Insurance, 11-50 employees) Chose VMware vSphere vSphere has a lot more feature sets than Hyper-V but at a much higher cost of entry versus MS Hyper-V. I have not been able to play with Hyper-V as much as I would have liked, but the setup and ongoing maintenance seems to be easier in vSphere than with Hyper-V Incentivized Helpful? Jon Shurtliff Vice President of Information Technology in Information Technology at 3form (Plastics, 501-1000 employees) Chose VMware vSphere VSphere is Heads and shoulders above the rest! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSphere vSphere has more functionality than workstation pro and Hyper-V from Microsoft. It is expensive but for a good reason, the amount of control you have with vSphere is amazing. VMware is constantly adding new features and keeps their software up to date. Hyper-V is great but with … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

VMware vSphere

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of VMware vSphere
Feature	VMware vSphere 7.2 67 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	7.062 Ratings
Management console	7.067 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	6.060 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.065 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.062 Ratings

User Ratings
	VMware vSphere
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.0 (7 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (11 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (25 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	8.4 (5 ratings)
Professional Services	9.7 (3 ratings)