What do you like most about VMware vSphere?

The initial setup is very easy and takes half an hour to complete.

The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance.

The solution saves cost.

It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud.

The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily.

It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well.

The emphasis isn't specifically on a particular feature, but rather on the ease of use. For instance, when building a test lab or setting up an entire environment from scratch, VMware products are notably more user-friendly compared to alternatives like Nutanix. I've had prior experience with Nutanix.

From my personal perspective, I found it easier to adapt to using VMware than when I started using Dynamics. This ease of use is a strong point. It's largely about how straightforward it is to navigate through VMware's user interface. In contrast, with Nutanix, there's a need to delve into smaller configurations and navigate vendor-specific settings. VMware, on the other hand, offers a more accessible management page. This difference primarily centres around usability and the overall user-friendliness of the interface.

I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable.

Has many good features, and is stable and reliable.

VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines.

VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop.

Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team.

We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent.

In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby.

This solution is very stable.
It's scalable and simple to set up.

The scalability is good.

The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines.

It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it.

The product is very easy to install.

The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it.

Reduces downtime.

The solution is scalable.

VMware vSphere has very good applications and services.

The interface is good.

The latest innovation always comes from VMware.

The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions.

The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage.

The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable.

Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem.

It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable.

The stability of the solution is excellent.

Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable.

It is a very stable solution. It performs well for our requirements. It has been running for a long time, so we are very knowledgeable about this solution.

It is a very well-supported solution, and it is very flexible. The expansion of its functionality is dynamic.

I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy.

I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful.

It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve.

The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere.

It is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible.

The solution is very straightforward to implement.

Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite.

The solution can scale well.

Technical support is very good. They are very helpful.

It is easy to use.

It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better.

vRealize Operations Manager is the most valuable feature, but it is not embedded in vSphere; it is a part of vSphere. It is used for forecasting and checking the consumption of CPU, memory, and other resources. It has the capability to do the forecast based on the history and give advice on consumption.

VMware vSphere is easy to use and easy to implement. Its learning curve is not sharp. Any engineer with little or medium knowledge of hypervisors and virtualizations can implement vSphere with a few clicks.

Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable.

Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage.

The documentation is very good.

The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it.

I don't see any challenges in using this product.

I like the standard features.

Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts.

The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site.

Virtualised automation is a useful feature.

Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it.

I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market.

The provisioning setup of VMs is good.

I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable.

The performance is efficient.

Very reliable with a great community.

VMware SRM is one of the site recovery solution help us to recovery the failed VM on DR site with the help of storage adapter 

The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature.

The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible.

Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market.

Provides good backup to our servers.

The solution allows for very good virtualization.

The solution has high availability.

VMware is good for virtualization.

The most valuable features are stability and support.

It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware.

VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass.

The initial setup is easy.

The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper.

The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion.

It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way.

It is very easy to use and very stable.

The product offers good stability.

The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function.

An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers.

VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution.

Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good.

The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime.

The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution.

It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures.

The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages.

The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance.

The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance.

We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources.

The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments.

It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery).

Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages.

The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM.

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.

It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily.

It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security.

We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents.

Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature.

It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine.

The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels.

The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature.

It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors.

You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product.

Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot.

The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user.

Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload.

Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface.

In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues.

One of the most valuable features that vSphere has is its HA and DRS protection, where it can simply make sure that all the machines are always where they need to be and how they need to be taken care of. We have a lot of servers and services for emergency services for police, fire, and the like. We have the ability to use DRS as Anti-Affinity Rules to make sure that those redundant server pairs always stay away from each other. But then, if anything would happen to one of them, we have HA to be able to come up and bring it right up and going again.

The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton.

For me, the most valuable feature would be the EVC, but EVC has been changed to be per-VM which makes it possible for us to migrate the VMs to cloud and not take into account what hardware they're running on. Also, a big improvement from the previous version is that I'm now able to schedule backup for the VCSA. That is, in my opinion, a huge improvement. The last thing that I think is really great is, I'm not able to boot the OS and not the entire server. That's going to save me a lot of time.

The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous.

vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance.

We have seen a tremendous performance boost. From when we started this VMware engagement in 2016 until now, we have seen around a 70 percent performance boost. This is a good number.

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.

The most valuable features for me are a very easily scalable infrastructure. I can have a couple of hosts to do basic workloads. I can have a lot of hosts to do a lot of workloads. vSAN integrates my storage so I don't need an external storage SAN. I love having everything integrated in the same UI. The new HTML5 interface doesn't require any plugins anymore and it's super-fast.

The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us.

As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down.

It provides a new environment in an expedient manner.

The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7.

It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs.

The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource.

Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics.

We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors.

What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them.

Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space.

Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour.

VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly.

We don't have any downtime because it was built right.

The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good.

The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode.

With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier.

We find the solution simple and efficient to manage.

Some of the most valuable features are: the ability to Snapshot so that when we do updates we have a layer of protection for simplified rollback; the replication that we can leverage for data center failures and data center downtime; the ease of migrating workloads from physical device to physical device for maintenance that we have to do on physical servers.

We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back.

One of the things I like with the web client, versus the thick client, is that we're able to access all the vCenters that we manage. With the thick client, you have to log in to one vCenter at a time.

The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload.

The most valuable features for us are DRS, VMotion, and, of course, some of the analytics that we were able to define to quantify our workloads and tell us how we are able to make our data center more efficient.

It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized.

Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong.

We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines.

We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier.

We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing.

The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need.

It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution.

We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running.