VMware vSphere Foundation Reviews

I mostly use VMware vSphere Foundation in environments migrating from physical to virtualized infrastructures. The second use case is when refactoring the application stack to transition toward a cloud-native architecture, which entails redesigning or re-architecting how the application stack comes together, occasionally combining virtual machines with containerized capabilities.

The intuitive management interface of VMware vSphere Foundation has improved over the years, especially in the last couple of versions, which I find satisfactory. Previously, it was quite clunky, but it has gotten better.

Overall, I am generally happy with VMware's customer support; they are responsive and I have no reason to complain. Whenever I've needed assistance, I've managed to reach the right people, even when it involved them going back to their research or technical advisory teams for answers, consistently finding solutions, workarounds, or permanent fixes within a reasonable timeframe.

My main use case for VMware vSphere Foundation is virtualization, which is very useful for consolidating all the physical machines.

I really appreciate VMotion and HA as useful features.

VMware vSphere Foundation has a powerful tool whereby we can implement HA (high availability) for each node, and we can VMotion the virtual machine to another host. High availability enables us to reduce downtime.

We save substantial money from using VMware vSphere Foundation because previously, we needed to provision all new applications with new physical servers, such as app servers, DB servers, and license servers. Now we can virtualize everything into one box.

We mostly use VMware vSphere Foundation for data center, enterprise-level data centers. We use it for data center virtualization.

VMware vSphere ensures high resilience in the data center. A failure of one of the hosts does not result in failure in services or the entire infrastructure. The workload will move to the adjacent load and continue operating. It consolidates our physical servers, giving us a lower physical server footprint and manages our infrastructure efficiently. These features are beneficial.

I work for a data center as a system administrator. I oversee production and analyze systems. We host our workloads on VMware and virtualized infrastructure.

The features are easy to manage, and the user experience is excellent. Each version of vSphere offers a range of features, from basic hypervisors to vCenter, which are easy to manage. It is more reliable than others. VMware has the largest portfolio, and I appreciate how they manage virtual infrastructure. The virtual stack of vCenter, its distributed resources system, high availability engines, and the ability to move VM workloads from one host to another are outstanding. No other vendor provides such features to the extent VMware does.

I am currently using vSphere Foundation to manage multiple standalone servers and our cluster environment. It provides me with good manageability from a virtualization perspective.

I find the manageability and interface of vSphere Foundation to be very good, more understandable, and futuristic compared to open-source alternatives. It provides me with a lot of features that I am comfortable using for virtualization. I manage multiple servers with ease, which is a significant benefit for my organization's virtualization needs.

I have been selling to companies through distribution channels, reaching out to government entities like in Sao Paulo for solutions such as backup systems where the base of that backup solution was VMware. I am not sure about the final use, however, these have been the main solutions I have sold recently.

One valuable feature of vSphere is the possibility to distribute file systems in a hyperconvergent foundation. This allows virtualization and the establishment of a private cloud, serving as a first step to the public cloud. VMware provides the tools needed to move environments between private and public clouds seamlessly.

I use vSphere Foundation for virtualization. I handle multiple VMs and have been involved in deploying it for various industries, including banking, FMCG, and telecoms. I work as a service provider, offering support and administration of the solution.

vSphere Foundation is valuable due to its scalability, reliability, and ease of management. It allows multiple VMs in one server, making it cost-effective. Its high availability and the convenience of management are significant benefits for my customers.