Why you should choose VMware
Pros
- Increase hardware utilization by 50-70%
- Decreased hardware and software capital costs by 40%
- Decreased operating costs by 50-70%
Cons
- VMware SRM Site Recovery Manager is not a great data recovery solution. Many third party products have better features as well as easier management.
- Backup and Recovery tools are much better using third party tools which increases cost and complexity.
- Licensing and renewals can become very difficult to manage the larger your footprint grows.
Return on Investment
- Quicker response to issues through centralized management and alerting have allowed for better response time when issues arise.
- Visibility into your server health as well as application health can be monitored via their vRealize suite. This provides visibility many other product cannot compete with.
- The virtual footprint has lowered power consumption costs and the overall footprint of the data center to a much more environmental friendly solution.