VMware vSphere Primary Use Case
Our company uses VMware vSphere Versions 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0. My company is trying to deploy all the VMs on VMware vSphere Version 8 since it has some new features. The old versions of the tool don't support some of the VMs, specifically in the area of vMotion.
This solution has a very comfortable interface for snapshots for my virtual machines. That's very comfortable.
For example, if I want to make templates to create a certain type of virtual machine, I have it in vSphere. Moreover, it includes things like deployment, implementation of different templates, snapshot deleting snapshot, restoring a machine to snapshot or administrative administration things.
View full review »Our primary use case is virtualization. All the clients who want to virtualize can use vSphere to do it.
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Brian Kirsch
Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College
The primary use case is spinning up lab VMs. We can spin up several hundred VMs for students to work with, which could be Windows-based or Linux-based. It's about creating these VMs, then destroying them as soon as they are done. So, there is a lot of creation and destruction. We also spin up VM environments as well. On the vSphere 6.7 product, the optimization is great. The older versions, 6.0 and 6.5 were sluggish. When your spinning and destroying things, it's a big deal to have higher performance.
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
The company I work for is a global company and has many data inflection issues. Quality control decisions are not actually made at the local level. It is made at the headquarter level in Europe.
We have our cloud site solution, our production environment, and our data recovery environment. We use VMware solutions integrated with HP solutions for hardware replication and storage-to-replication facilities. We use vSphere with ESXi 6.0, primarily for VM migration. We have an HP storage replication system in place for our first storage requirements with the VMs. Every other one is managed by VMware vMotion. vSphere and ESXi 6.0 are used to host our application servers, operational applications, and additional HR applications.
For extensions, we have vMotion to manage the virtual machines so that we can watch the network. For all of our backup requirements currently, we use the HP Data Protector.
I deal with the solution in my company to work in the area of data center virtualization.
View full review »We use the solution in servers for digitalization. Our digital products, like mobile and internet banking, run on them.
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Johan Odendaal
Server Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for everything Microsoft-related for the most part. I would say our visualization platform is about 99.5% of all our workload from a Microsoft point of view
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Kim Dijkstra
Technical manager at Koninklijke Bam Groep N.v.
I use VMware vSphere primarily to provide a layer of virtualization between our Cisco hardware and existing software. It ensures high availability and redundancy for our applications, minimizing downtime in case of OS or application failures. Additionally, vSphere simplifies migration when updating hardware and makes it faster to reinstall virtual machines along with applications.
We mainly use this solution to create hosts and convert them to virtual machines. We convert our physical assets into virtualized assets. We need to convert ESXi hosts into VMs.
Our entire operating team has access to vSphere. They can log into vCenter — vSphere's dashboard. We have multiple IDs and roles created. In total, we have more than 600 users. Out of our 600 users, we have around 50 admin users who can administer the entire map.
We definitely plan to continue using this solution.
View full review »The primary use case is for virtualization of the Windows environment for our organization.
It has performed wonderfully. Over the course of the last 10 years, we have implemented vSphere Hypervisor and moved from five percent virtualization up to a current rate of about 85 percent, for our Windows environment.
The mission-critical apps we use it for are for production facilities, as well as optimizers for the machine equipment that is at those production facilities. There are ancillary systems in our corporate data centers that are used for the internal customer-facing apps, to work with the business intelligence piece, which can monitor metrics as well as capacity planning, ordering, and business warehousing. All of these business-critical functions run on vSphere Hypervisor.
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Martin Coloumbe
IT Solution Architect at KnowledgeOne
Currently, our whole infrastructure stack is residing on the VMware hypervisor. Everything we use is running on VMware. We have multi-site vCenter data centers. We have four sites, but they are two separate pairs of sites that provide redundancy. We will shortly also use VMware Site Recovery Manager for the two to four hours disaster recovery strategy.
We are on version 6.5 or 6.7, and we are moving to version 7.0 shortly.
View full review »We have been virtualizing our on-premises data center. We relied heavily on VMware vSphere to manage our servers; all our virtual server loads are hosted on it.
View full review »We use it exclusively for internal purposes within our company, managing our office infrastructure as a private cloud solution.
We use the product for server virtualization.
View full review »Our primary use case of VMware vSphere is virtualization. It doesn't depend on the hardware anymore, so it's easy to migrate and scale.
This solution is deployed on-premise.
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Rangga Kusuma
Head Tim Infrastructure, and IT Security at Lembaga Penjamin SImpanan
Previously, we were using the conventional physical server but we now use the enterprise version of VMware vSphere to virtualize all of our servers. All of the servers in our company are now virtualized servers. In 2016, we do not know that virtualized servers can be monitored, we have implemented monitoring for the virtualized systems and management allowing us to create DR for the solution.
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reviewer1451847
Sr. Systems Engineer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case of this solution is for server consolidation and high availability. We are customers of VMware and I'm a senior systems engineer.
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AllanTrambouze
Consultant senior en technologie de l'information at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use vSphere 7.0.1 for a few reasons. My primary use case is for my lab, as vSphere offers a great versatility to use VDI, containers, distributed Storage, and SDN on the same hardware. I also use vSphere for non-production tasks on Rasberry Pie 4, and it offers a great deal for working with Docker on cheap hardware with a single management interface, vSphere.
My lab is composed of three white-box servers with vSAN, a 10 gig network, a local SAN, and all storage with SSD to deliver fast VM.
I also have vRealize operating to monitor all the VMware components.
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Ricky Santos
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
The entire production and development environments are running on VMware vSphere using the 6.0 and 6.5 versions with twelve-node clustered configurations. Two data centers were deployed to separate the production side virtual machines from those of test and development.
View full review »The focus is more on simulating various PM (Performance Management) products. This involves tasks like identifying bugs or testing new updates.
As for the workflow, it primarily revolves around working remotely due to the pandemic. Unlike having a physical lab where reconfiguration is feasible, I have taken advantage of VMware solutions, including VMware vSphere and related products. I have adapted them to match the specific configurations.
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Francis KACOU
Head of Service and Storage Infrastructure at GS2E
It is primarily our server virtualization solution. We have approximately 2,000 servers, all of which are running VMware vSphere.
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reviewer1578723
IT Supervisor at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
We use vSphere for production work on defense projects.
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Mohamed_Ashraf
Senior Product Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
VMware vSphere is the basic application for making the virtualization on our environment.
View full review »It is largely for workload virtualization.
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Jason Hong-Turney
Lead IT Systems Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
My primary use case for vSphere 6.7 is that it's used strategically as a management plain for all 2,100 ESXi hosts across our environment.
In terms of mission-critical apps, I couldn't tell you, because I operate the public cloud and we don't really care what our customers use it for.
We do not use VMware Cloud on AWS yet but it is something we are exploring.
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Stephen Parker
Systems Engineer at BYU Idaho
The use case is that we want to upgrade to the new features and functionality of version 6.7.
We run several SQL Servers on there, Active Directory Servers, file servers, web servers; multiple servers running on it.
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Kevin Williams
IT Analyst I at Los Rios Community College District
vSphere allows us to virtualize our campus servers and our student environment. We run vCenter within vSphere, so we have about 300 or 400 student desktop workstations that we run at any given time. We are able to customize our students' experience very quickly, very easily, and are able to make it mobile from different computer labs on campus.
We're also exploring opening it up so students would be able to remote into their VDI workstations from offsite. We're also looking into wrapping everything up with Workspace ONE, so we can virtualize more applications and let them have more of an MDM experience as well.
We're not really virtualizing the apps themselves, yet. We're trying to move towards that. Our mission-critical things rely on our servers that we have virtualized. We have web servers, security servers, database servers that we have virtualized and that makes it easier for us to back up and maintain them. Really, vSphere plays a part in our management.
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Michael Huset
Senior Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our use case is virtualization of hardware infrastructure, for return on investment cases. We have done pretty well with it. I'm really happy with it.
The mission-critical apps we run on them include SQL; there is a lot of file sharing; there are a lot of websites and web servers running on them. There's some big data stuff for big science. We have to be able to digest lots of data and then pull analytics on it at a high-level, and be able to show big data in useful ways.
View full review »VMware vSphere is a very stable solution that can be used to host your virtual services. If you want to host a virtual machine, VMware vSphere is the best tool available on the market.
View full review »We provide basic VMware virtualization platforms basically for private clouds and hybrid clouds.
These are being used in the case of server consolidation for reducing the hardware sprawl and also, for a lot of the monitoring solutions now, so that companies can have their own virtual machines. For that, many of the clients need a virtualization platform. That's where we recommend vSphere.
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SenthilKumarGM
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution for network virtualization.
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reviewer939042
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
My primary use case of VMware vSphere 6.7 is that I manage some 100 clients who are using this product in their day-to-day work. These are businesses that use it. It runs the core of their networks. It runs their business. It is critical for them to be up and running, so vSphere is pretty important for them.
The mission-critical application that we run on vSphere is our main program that we use to actually monitor all of our customers. We have hundreds of customers. Our main application of remote monitoring runs in our vSphere environment. We also run our Exchange, which is critical. That's how we get our alerts about all of our systems that we're managing. We also run our ticketing systems. When a customer will submit a ticket via email we get it. All of that is running on vSphere.
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Brandon Morris
System Administrator at City of Sioux Falls
The primary use case for vSphere is managing and controlling all of our virtual environments from the servers, and the storage resources, to all of the guest virtual machines.
As far as mission-critical apps go, the most important that I see is our computer-aided dispatch software which runs all of the police, fire, and ambulance services for the city. That that is the most important thing that we do, to simply protect lives and protect property.
Other kinds of very critical workloads that we have to have include an enterprise-resource-planning system that most everything goes through. The city also has a lot of geographical information about everything that is in the city. The citizens use that data constantly.
We do not use VMware Cloud on AWS.
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Tommy-Li
Manager for Middleware at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VMware vSphere is the virtual platform for our company, where we host all the virtual machines.
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Michael Ogunlade
Head of enterprise systems at Fidelity Bank Plc
It's used as a private cloud, and currently, we operate the original enterprise infrastructure. For VMware, a majority of the workload is posted on VMware, and it's posted on the HCI solution.
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Luis Arencibia
IT Operations Services Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We use vSphere to monitor our ESX hosts and VMs. We use it on day-to-day basis. vCenter one of the first things employees open when they arrive to our offices. It is a good product. It has an array of things that you perform with it, and we use it all the time.
We are planning to use AWS, but we are not using it yet.
View full review »Our clients use the product for virtualization. Some of our internal divisions also use the product for virtualization.
View full review »We implement all the standard VMware data solutions. Typically, that's vSphere and sometimes DataCore, the other product we like. We use vSphere for the virtualization of data servers, and other common uses.
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Michael-Kierum
Principal Consultant at Absolute Precision
Our primary use case is for integrating data feeds from multiple applications.
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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The primary use case for vSphere is that it can be used to deploy space applications to consolidate environments. You can be in production or in a data center, and you want each application to perform or to run only on a particular server. To create that consolidation and that separation of services, you could deploy vSphere.
Nowadays, servers are very robust. You can have a server of 18 cores and a server of 75 terabytes or 100 terabytes. That's a huge investment for a company, and you cannot just deploy a single application. So, with vSphere it will permit you to deploy the hypervessel on that server and later on add servers little by little that can meet your needs.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The solution is a hypervisor.
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Irad Dukad
IT Manager at ducart
The product is primarily used for my main server for the main business. All the servers are on it.
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Leonardo Shewchenko
Information Technology Support Coordinator at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's the main virtualization solution for our clients.
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SeniorSyb3f0
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
The primary use case is enterprise virtualization for server consolidation, energy conservation, data center space conservation, and overall efficiency and scalability.
The mission-critical apps we use it for are everything from machine-learning to business processing to scientific research and development.
View full review »The most common use case for VMware vSphere is, of course, virtualization, specifically operating system virtualization. We also have containers that are running on them.
View full review »There are two versions of function more popular in our industry. One is the VMware solution, and one is Hyper-V. We choose VMware. We manage the VMware solutions with the vSphere. If you have a VMware solution, we have to use vSphere. However, if we choose Microsoft we have to use Microsoft management tools.
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reviewer1261665
VMware Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for virtualization.
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Sid Sharma
Lead QA Analyst at Loomis Express
We use it to create ThinApps.
View full review »We are using this solution to build the AD database for the server.
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RavindraBhojwani
Logistics and product Manager at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Our clients have a lot that they want to be deployed in an environment. What they normally do is buy two or three boxes, and then it's virtualized. We make the VM sit on those boxes. Within three boxes, they can have at least ten or 20 servers working for them. They have less power, less racking space, less cabling, and all that. That's how we use VMware.
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Allan Trambouze
Senior Consultant at Cofomo
We are an IT consulting company who serves and sells IT services.
I am using the last version to understand the new features. Also, we are using it to improve our code for our VMware clients.
We are also using on VMware cloud on AWS inside POC.
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Daniel Pietrasanta
IT Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We're virtualizing the whole infrastructure of the company. We are only keeping some of the bigger servers as bare metal, but aside from that, everything is being virtualized.
We use vSphere for mission-critical apps including SAP and part of our internal development in C+, for the solution that collects everything for the buyers.
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reviewer924948
Senior Manager Systems/Network, Global Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it to manage multi-site, multi-regional implementations of VMware. We use the security end roles to give different tiers of access from the VM up to the VMware installation. We manage the roles and responsibilities within the security to do this.
We do all the functionality inside vSphere. We use VMotion and DRS to manage some of our licensing issues that we have. With bigger software vendors, like Oracle, we use it to keep licenses and requirements compliant and keep VMs running on specific hardware.
We use it for quite a few daily tasks: cloning and testing out patching. Then, we can perform snapshots through vSphere.
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reviewer924351
Director, Windows Server Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for virtualization of approximately 90 percent of all of our computing. In terms of mission-critical apps, quite honestly we use it for the majority of them on the banking side: our financial apps, loan accounting, loan origination, etc.
View full review »It is a compute virtualization software. It is mainly used to virtualize physical servers and deploy virtual machines on top of virtual servers. So, instead of having one workload per server, you can have multiple workloads.
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MinaMagdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
We deliver this solution to our customers and we partner with the vendor. I'm a senior infrastructure solution specialist.
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PatrickBenson
Sr. Architect, Business Continuity at Sayers
I'm a Solutions Architect. I advise clients on how to leverage VMware products to provide resiliency in the face of disruptive events. VMware's platform is the most robust for running VMs upon, and it also has the most mature technology. Therefore, it is much more reliable and predictable, and those are the key characteristics needed to ensure a successful business continuity solution. Bleeding edge newcomers have yet to prove themselves production worthy compared to VMware's long history of success.
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Tony Reeves
Network Administrator
My primary use case for the product is testing Home Lab. I was involved in the early vSphere 6.7 beta. I wanted to see what the new features were, how it worked. I'm using it currently in my Home Lab for testing lots of the different products as a vSphere-base for vSAN, NSX, running the latest vCenter, etc.
Some of the critical workloads that I'm running in my vSphere environment are Exchange, SQL, various different application servers, and those have to be up and available at all times, and vSphere does that for us. It gives us High Availability, failover, vMotion capability for load balancing. It works great.
View full review »It is primarily for virtualization.
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DesktopS0c59
Desktop Support Supervisor at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Primary use-case would be updating our Gold/Masters for the Horizon environment. It works pretty well. We're still getting used to the HTML5 Client versus the old Flash-based Client.
We use it for all of our servers, we have virtualized everything. The mission-critical things, for a bank like us, are the mainframe - it's the IBM iSeries - and our Saleslogix application. Those would be the two biggest ones, but we use it for all of our databases as well. We're 90 percent VMware, with hundreds of servers.
It's been a pretty smooth transition. We just upgraded to 6.5. Hopefully, we'll be updated to 6.7 soon. But it's been working really well.
View full review »We use VMware vSphere for the virtualization of environments.
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reviewer1158117
Assistant Consultant with 10,001+ employees
It is used for some databases to the application server and any load that you can think about.
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MUKUNDKULKARNI
IT Manager at KIRLOSKAR PNEUMATIC CO. LTD.
VMware vSphere is used for server virtualization. We are using Microsoft Active Directory, file, and Linux servers
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Mohamed Fathi
IT Manager at pioneers
We are using VMware vSphere on all of our servers in all environments.
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Yves-Schatzmann
Senior Information Technology Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution acts as the basis for doing virtualization.
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ForrestWu
Sr. Manager IT at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
We use VMware vSphere for our windows server and other virtual machines.
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Igor Schwarz
Presales Engineer at Emet Computing
We are a solution provider and VMware vSphere is one of the products that I have experience with. This product is used as a virtual IT environment. It hosts applications such as SQL databases.
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Rene Van Den Beden
Chief Architect at RoundTower Technologies
It's running mission-critical and business-critical workloads for our customers, and the experience has been positive.
The mission-critical apps include core banking systems, core healthcare systems, artificial intelligence. And highly transactional workloads are also great fits for vSphere 6.7.
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Sean Crawford
Information Systems Analyst at San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
The primary use case for the product is, we use it as our core infrastructure to power all of our servers as well as any kind of application that runs tolling for the region.
For mission-critical applications that we use this for, it's mostly for proprietary applications that were specifically built to run tolling. So all of our tolling applications run on vSphere 6.7.
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Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
Sr. Operations Engineer at Kamstrup
The main use case of this product and its performance is server virtualization, and the performance is pretty good compared to what we were used to with the previous version. The previous version for us was version 6.0.
There are built-in security features, TPM and encryption, which are something we're going to use at a later stage. Right now, we are waiting for a hardware refresh to be able to support a TPM version too. But it's something I'm really looking forward to.
The mission-critical apps and workloads running on vSphere are just about everything. Our municipality covers everything from cradle to grave. We are running a retirement home, nursing home, schools. The most important are the healthcare applications.
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Infrastr7d14
Infrastructure with 5,001-10,000 employees
We run, easily, 98 percent of our servers out of vSphere. We pretty much have nothing physical anymore.
In terms of mission-critical apps, our entire ERP environment is all virtualized, outside of the rack. Everything in our organization, our student database records, employee records, all of our management stuff, is in VMware.
View full review »vSphere is managing virtual machines in VMware infrastructure, ESXi, and it has performed very well. It's actually an excellent product.
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reviewer1119762
Information Technology Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for the analytics we can get.
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PrasadMane
System Advisor IT at CRIF India
In the organization where I have worked for the past nine years, there are multiple virtualization platforms. Virtualization software includes Microsoft Hypervisor, Red Hat KVM, Oracle virtual machine, and Oracle virtual cloud.
vSphere is optimized for a specific type of virtualization.
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Gabriele-Pizzigati
Senior Software and Systems Engineer at SAMU.IT
We are an IT company and VMware partners.
VMware vSphere is used for virtualization in all situations and for all businesses.
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reviewer1602309
IT Manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the product as a server. Most of the work we do for our clients.
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กฤษฎา รวยเรืองรุ่ง
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We are just beginning on vSphere. In the next two and three years, I would like to explore the virtualized automation.
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Walid Mouamar
Network and Security Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use vSphere for virtualization in the IT center. It's the solution we use for publishing our server which supports up to 1,000 users currently. With vSphere, stability comes easily; it's nothing like physical hardware.
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reviewer1232400
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I use VMware solutions every day. We use VMware 6.7. We are unable to update because of hardware compatibility concerns.
Our day-to-day operation is building virtual machine applications.
View full review »We are primarily using the solution as our virtualization platform.
We procure some licenses for vSphere Standard and we are using it to replicate to VM so that we can have at least that level of redundancy. On the upcoming project for VxRail, we'll be using it for a hyper-converged platform, where you can have high availability and failover capability in real-time.
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Ganesh Sekarbabu
Windows Virtualization Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have three different types of environments: internal cloud, managed hosting, and VDA. We use VMware vSphere as the main product to accomplish this.
VMware is now the main backbone in our company.
We are not using VMware cloud on AWS. We are in PoC mode. We may use it in another six months to a year.
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David Grimes
VP of Product Engineering at Navisite
Our primary use case for vSphere is not a primary use case, because we actually offer a pretty wide breadth of services. Our key use cases revolve around hosted private cloud, as well as being the underpinning virtualization platform for our multi-tenant vCloud Director based cloud.
We don't use VMware cloud on AWS.
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reviewer1390341
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
I use it for my infrastructure, and we can also use it for our simulation environment and training. We can use VMware in a simulation environment to test the environment we need.
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Bilal Aslam
Founder & Technology Advisor at EUC Solutions
The primary reason our customers use vSphere is to consolidate their workloads and realize the other benefits that virtualization provides. For example, they create HA or VM-level HA to facilitate DR.
Essentially, our clients use vSphere for all of the reasons that people use a virtualization layer.
I am a virtualization technician, doing software technology consulting for virtualization and VDI.
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reviewer1681332
IT Operations Support at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
We use VMware vSphere on our main computer systems and we are using the Center Configuration Manager from VMware for the solution as well as vCenter for replication.
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Domingos Francisco
IT Administrator at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We have implemented VMware vSphere a lot which is used for Server Virtualization. It has reduced the number of equipment that we need to use in the data centers servers, such as HP, IBM, Dell, and many others. We can use this solution for many use cases, even storage.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
This solution is used as a virtual and a clustered environment. We provide a minimum of two central storage server clusters and the maximum we have is for approximately four server clusters.
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Karthikeyan Chinnadurai
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We are using vSphere as a multi-tenant platform. We are hosting VMs for a few of our customers.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
We are using VMware vSphere and virtualization infrastructure for IT functions in my company. It is also used in other companies or industries, such as automobile factories, energy and gas factories, and State Universities.
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reviewer1266792
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use VMware vSphere for virtualization and to deliver VDI.
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Trevor Napier
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use it as systems administrative management tool. I use VMware vSphere, vCenter, and vSphere ESXi.
We do not use VMWare cloud on AWS.
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Robert Cox
Systems Engineer at Vestmark inc
We use vSphere for our production and DR infrastructure. We have all our critical machines on there: domain controllers, monitoring systems, ticketing systems, financial systems, billing systems, Test and Dev environments. For the most part, as far as vSphere is concerned, it's performed pretty awesomely. Sometimes the hardware doesn't work as well.
Once we got VMware vCenter, once we got all that setup - did a PoC, proved that it worked - we did a big push. I led the project to move our entire internal infrastructure from physical to virtual.
We haven't worked with VM Encryption or support for TPM and VBS.
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Ayodeji Ariyo
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case is to virtualize our physical environment and to decentralize management of the systems themselves. It has been performing very well. We use it for everything.
About 95 percent of our environment is virtualized at this point. Even our ERP environment, which is AIX, runs on vSphere, ESXi is the host. We have implemented SRM for failing-over and having high availability and disaster recovery in our other data centers.
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Raden Evangelista
Systems Engineerineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Our primary use case is for labs, development workloads, and engineering. I use it for our processing development on our product. Our company does printing technologies for gaming, particularly for gaming casinos in the gaming industry.
It's working great.
We are looking at going to VMware Cloud on AWS. I'm familiar with the SDDC software solutions, but cost always comes in to play. I would like to find out more, as it sounds a lot cheaper now. We already use Azure for our deployment packages. Right now, it is just FTP, but we could use somewhere to actually manage the infrastructure ourselves. It is much easier to manage it than relying on customer infrastructure to do the hosting for us. We are mostly on-premise, but we are looking to move to the cloud since there are more opportunities there. It should help us gain more customers and expand the market share for our company.
View full review »vSphere 6.5 is the primary virtualization technology in use at our firm and supports the entire organization infrastructure.
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SandeepMenon
Manager at SSMS
The solution is primarily used for management. It offers easier control at multiple branches.
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reviewer1346730
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
We use it mainly to host virtual machines. We have the standard version, so we do VMotion. Sometimes it's easier when you need to do some maintenance on a whole server to be able to move the virtual machine from one host to another, so there is no downtime for the users. For virtual machine management, it's more fluent to dynamically set the resources on the servers, for example, if we need to increase the storage volume on a virtual machine or increase the RAM or adjust the CPU cores. It's easier to handle this on vSphere or any other hypervisor than on bare metal.
View full review »SK
Stephen Krujelskis
Senior System Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Primary use case: data center virtualization. It's performing well. We're really happy with vSphere as a virtualization platform.
In terms of the built-in security features, we use none of them. I really couldn't tell you much at all about that.
Mission-critical apps would be our student information system - that one is running on PeopleSoft - student portals, also PeopleSoft. Those are the mission-critical ones that we're running on VMware. There's other stuff that is critical, but I wouldn't say that it's mission-critical.
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Preston Lasebikan
Lead Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our main use case for this is that it's the foundation of our company. What our company, MacStadium, does is provide virtual environments for customers to do iOS development on Apple hardware. And the foundation for that, for creating the private cloud, is vSphere.
In terms of mission-critical apps, it's utilized mainly for iOS development. So customers will use the API for vCenter to automate things. They can do CICD, where they can spin up and spin down virtual machines, rapidly, and provide them to their internal groups or to their customers to do iOS development.
It has actually been performing a lot better than you'd think for an initial release. It's very smooth and I've been pretty impressed with it so far.
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Rob Pease
IT Director at Jewish Family Service
The primary use case is to save us a lot of money. Really, the primary use case is to be flexible, to be scalable, to be agile, as the company changes. As a non-profit, we really change often. New programs come in every day. vSphere gives us the ability to be flexible The mission-critical apps we use it for include Exchange, SQL, Active Directory, document management systems. We use it for everything.
While we haven't seen a performance boost for these apps, they're flexible. That's really what it's about. I'm still learning how to make it boost performance.
We haven't used any of the built-in security features.
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reviewer1344021
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is server virtualization software. VMware is totally for virtualization.
View full review »AS
reviewer357684
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
A typical use case for vSphere would be general virtualization, primarily, where we're deploying either Linux or Windows-based workloads. We do have a lot of design-ready nodes we use for some of our clients. We also use Tanzu, from an application development container, microservices type of solution as well.
View full review »VMware vSphere is primarily used for server virtualization and automation.
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reviewer1502625
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a private cloud and it's on a standalone Bare Metal system. On the private cloud environment we provide virtualized computers for different users.
View full review »CB
reviewer1081776
Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use vSphere for general server virtualization. I am not doing anything spectacular with it.
View full review »CK
Charlie Karam
Chief Technology Officer at Motor City Stamping Inc
Using this solution, we have virtualized 90% of servers used by a tier-one automotive supplier.
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Marcus Hall
Senior Automation Specialist at Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco
We use this solution for hardware consolidation and improved infrastructure resiliency.
MA
Muhammad Tanvir Ashraf
Systems and Network Administrator at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC at Gulf Precast Concrete Co. LLC
Our primary use case is controlling our virtual machines, as well as our host machines.
View full review »LG
Luis Gomez
Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We use it to manage our VM servers, everything we have. We're about 98 percent virtualized and we're using VMware vSphere and it works great. It performs great.
In terms of mission-critical apps, we mainly host a lot of our accountants, so we have a lot of accounting software. It's really mission-critical to where we have to have these apps running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With vSphere, we're able to use VMotion, HA, and Fault Tolerance to keep our apps up and running for them.
We don't use VM Encryption or support for TPM or VBS. We don't yet use VMware Cloud on AWS but we're looking forward to it.
Use case is to manage virtuals; spin them up, bring them down, create them, and a little maintenance on them. It performs okay for me.
We do DRS for load-balancing. We're looking at doing Microsoft SQL virtual on it, probably without clustering; replacing physical clusters with it; and job scheduling; all probably in Q1.
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ITAnalysac7f
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It's a virtualization service.
The product is performing well. We are quite satisfied with it.
We are looking into using VMware on AWS in the future.
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Tom Pine
Lead Administrator at Comcast
We use it for call centers and providing server applications.
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John_Jones
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We use it for about 90 percent of our corporate network.
We have a separate vSphere for an ISP that we run on a private and public cloud, because we are an anti-cloud company.
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Sukanya Satapanachai
Infrastructure Professional Service Team Lead at G-Able
We have a partnership with VMware and I'm the professional service team lead.
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Hans-Peter Volk
Head of Professional Services at Axians ICT Austria GmbH
Our deployments were formerly on-prem, but we have the role of a cloud provider. We have a distributed solution in our data center and several international cloud providers.
We use VMware vSphere for most of our business processes, including HR.
View full review »SL
Stanley Lee
Principal Engineer at ST Engineering Limited
We deploy this solution for our clients, from small to large enterprise. We are resellers and I'm the company's principal engineer.
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reviewer1441107
Owner at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
Firstly, we use it to provide an infrastructure for a development environment. Secondly, we use it to provide services to end-users. A kind of clustered services, where underneath, there are plenty of virtual machines. Thirdly, these solutions were chosen because of the easy way of providing backups and zero downtime between accidents and issues.
View full review »BG
Blake Grover
System Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use vSphere to manage VMs, route our infrastructure, changing settings, remote desktopping, and providing services for the university.
In terms of mission-critical apps, we use it for our Student Information System (SIS) to manage all student records and financial aid for all students on campus, along with databases and other web servers on campus.
View full review »CH
SystemAd3999
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for VMware AirWatch/Workspace ONE: managing mobile devices.
View full review »GW
NetworkAa4a7
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use vSphere to manage the various vCenters that my group is responsible for. We use it for the main controllers. We have VMs that that manage access to buildings. Until there's a problem you don't realize, necessarily, how many key systems have been virtualized. If we shut everything down, then maybe people would realize how virtualization has really changed things.
We don't do anything active with the built-in security features, such as VM Encryption and support for TPM and VBS.
View full review »JS
JeanSpiteri
Infrastructure Engineer at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines. For example, I can run up to 10 computers, virtual servers on one physical server.
We have at least 10 people using this solution in our organization.
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Donald Lesotlho
IT Support Officer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
We are using VMware vSphere to manage the virtual environment. We use it for visibility and for managing the host.
View full review »RK
reviewer1173861
Global IT Infrastructure Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use vSphere to host all of our business applications, as well as our in-house developed applications. We also use it for the software components that support our IT team.
View full review »UF
reviewer929742
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for real-time backups. It can create new VMs.
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Kobus Almon
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt
While we work with the latest version, we also support customers when it comes to backing up their older versions, meaning we work with a variety of different ones.
Many of our customers have their core infrastructure on vSphere platforms. They make use of the solution for their virtual environments when it comes to their educational and healthcare institutions.
View full review »AS
reviewer1642854
Sr. Virtualization Engineer at a government with 51-200 employees
I use VMware vSphere as a regular VM for different workloads and different configurations.
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Rajesh Mehta
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have a variety of customers with different use cases. Many can't go to a public cloud, and so we give the option of a private cloud. If they can go to a public cloud, may use a hyperscaler such as AWS or Azure on their applications.
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reviewer1447761
Assitant Director - IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm always sort of working with the servers, therefore, whenever there is a requirement for a different kind of server, I deal with it. For example, one of my departments asked me to provide one server where they can store some files. Instead of getting a full physical server, we created some virtual machines on vSphere and gave it to the department so they could store their data there. That is one where we are using the server. Sometimes we buy software from outside, and there are specific requirements on hardware - for example, X amount much of RAM is required, Y amount of CPU is required, etc., so we try to use the vSphere to create the virtual machines for that.
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Walmik Wankhede
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
- Implemented private cloud.
- Created different OS VMs
- Implemented backup policies.
- Implemented network solutions.
Due to clustering, if any VM or server goes down, then within a moment it can be back. Even if a node goes down, then automatically all the VMs shift to another node. That is thr beauty of the product. It supports different platforms: Windows, Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, and many more.
View full review »TC
Tim Crabtree
Internship Student at NA
Server virtualization.
View full review »AB
Reviewer3064
Head - Server and Storage at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
My primary use case for this solution is the DRS feature of the solution.
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Sajag Chaturvedi
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer
Our main use case for the product is we want to do virtualization. We want to save costs on the physical hardware because we were running some big workloads on the physical hardware that we migrated over to VMware. In terms of the retail applications which we are running on the physical hardware, we have now virtualized them.
View full review »MW
CIO9dd5
CIO at a library with 201-500 employees
We had almost 100 servers and we wanted to consolidate them and also make them movable, especially when we have to upgrade hardware. It also allowed us to create more testing environments, because we tended to buy new iron every time. We also want users to be able to “own” servers themselves, so that we would build them for them, hand them over and say, "Have fun".
View full review »A lot of people use the VMware vSphere solutions because most operations are virtualized. Small and mid-range companies are using VMware vSphere for all their infrastructure virtualizing applications, this is what the solution is mainly used for.
View full review »EC
reviewer1478514
Database Administrator at a government with 1-10 employees
We're using VMware vSphere for our server services. We're using it primarily for hosting services. As an example, our mail server: Zimbra Mail is hosted on that virtual environment. Our web server, our DNS server, and all our public servers are also hosted in that environment.
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FelixDiaz
Freelance, Automation Project Administration, DCS, I&E at Centennial Cayman Corp Chile S.A
vSphere is for virtualizing some real computers, and then they can be used as hot spares. Sometimes you need to complement some functions or perform some work on them.
View full review »LH
Huy Le Quang
Cloud Professional Architect at FPT Software
We need virtualization for our company, or sometimes our customers leverage virtualization solutions instead of using physical machines.
View full review »JM
reviewer1126809
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
We use the solution for the virtualization of the environment. We've converted more than 90% of our environment from physical to virtual.
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reviewer1515015
General manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the product for server virtualization. We have multiple VMs for different environments for our business needs.
View full review »AV
reviewer1406361
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use VMware vSphere for virtualization, especially server virtualization.
View full review »SK
SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
We use this solution for hosting servers and some applications.
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Sergei Terekhin
Head of System Architecture Department at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is typically used in different ways. For example, for different servers, we use a different version on the same physical servers. It's for consolidation on one hardware server. It's also used for redundancy, for fail order, for high availability, for the assistance of the system et cetera. It can also be used for a virtual classroom.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at Computech Associates
We are a service provider, and we give services to our customers. Whenever we provide the solution, we give the latest version available at that time.
View full review »JL
reviewer1362096
Pré-vendas at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Most use cases are here in Brazil. The company is moving to vSphere after exchanging from a legacy platform. Most of our clients have not previously considered digitalization. Now, they look up KVM solutions for DevOps, the Zain app, and Zain desktops for desktop visualization. For some clients, these alternatives may seem more enticing. We did a vSphere implementation for a customer in the last 12 months. I think it was version 6.5.3. We used it for a retail company. We also cater to small to medium-sized companies in the US market. I estimate about a hundred people use vSphere.
View full review »JP
Jason Place
Systems Security Administrator at Twin River Casino
Standard commercial environment.
View full review »I primarily use vSphere for management. It is very fast, responsive, and easy to use.
View full review »FG
reviewer1672974
Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for Datacenter consolidation and it is the infrastructure of our servers.
View full review »MO
reviewer1522935
Operation Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for our virtual environment.
View full review »RK
Rommie Kaputin
IT TECHNICAL/ SERVER ADMINISTRATOR at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it to host our business-critical applications and servers on-premise.
View full review »SW
reviewer1016370
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It's virtualization software. We are using it to virtualize virtual machines.
View full review »DC
David Chief
Works
Our primary use case for this solution is High Availability Industrial Control Operator Interfaces, and Historian & Regulatory Compliance Data.
View full review »The primary use case is documentation.
View full review »Our main use case of vSphere is as the lower layer of a cloud service provider. It's the basis for offering our services through vCloud Director to our customers.
View full review »SK
Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
My primary use case is to consolidate the number of physical servers required. We created our motion machines out of it, and it acts as very easy management for backup and security.
View full review »HI
Hani Ismail
Scrum Master - Digital Marketing at Vodafone
The primary use case for vSphere depends on the center. This solution can be implemented both on-premises and on the cloud.
View full review »CM
reviewer807690
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Except for the Oracle Database, our environment is run on VMware vSphere. We also use this solution for connection tests.
View full review »AS
Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
We use vSphere to create virtual machines, connect them with centralized storage, and manage the vSphere servers. Many of our customers use vSphere. It's famous in Egypt.
View full review »MA
Maan Othman
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
We are resellers of VMware products. We sell both VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN.
This solution is used for infrastructure virtualization. It is deployed to get the most benefits of our hardware or for the user's hardware.
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reviewer1407546
Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The product is primarily used as a way to consolidate systems and leverage hardware resources more efficiently.
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Fernando Tamariz
Information Technology Specialist at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using vSphere to virtualize our workloads.
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Arshad-Hussain
Director at OPEOPL LISTEN TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
We primarily use VMware vSphere just for hosting purposes. We are data center. We create virtual machines and give them to our clients. We deal mostly in gaming.
View full review »JA
Josh Abercrombie
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The primary use cases for the solution are all of our production and DTQ.
We're not using any of the built-in security features.
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Bobby Shirley
Desktop Support Specialist at Bank Independent
We use vSphere to manage our virtual servers. We have about 50 spread across our main company as well as another company that we own. We use them to manage the applications which are attached to different tasks.
View full review »TM
ITInfras287c
IT Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use vSphere to virtualize or server workloads. We use the solution for all our mission-critical applications. We're an airline so our main application servers for running the airline are all virtualized on vSphere.
We don't utilize the built-in security features such as VM Encryption and support for TPM and VBS.
View full review »FP
reviewer1752153
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use VMware vSphere for virtualization.
We use it mostly on-premise, but for the last year on cloud.
View full review »MC
reviewer968889
Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use VMware vSphere to deploy servers.
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reviewer1596237
IT & Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use it for the virtualization of server infrastructure.
View full review »Our primary use case is to implement a high availability server environment.
View full review »OY
Orhangazi Yıldırım
System Architect at KT Bank
We are virtualizing our x86 server infrastructure with VMware vSphere. It consolidates our environment dramatically. Our virtualization ratio is over 92%.
View full review »MC
C7843E
Technical Support at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are using the VMware vSphere product to virtualize our servers and we are very succesful. We are very satisfied.
View full review »We are in the IT manufacturing industry. This solution has performed wonderfully. We do research and development into how our products can be best used in a vCenter/vSphere environment.
Mission-critical applications we use it for include vSan, HA, DRS. They're all very, very important to us.
View full review »JL
SystemsAe086
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case for us was to virtualize a small data center of about 30 guests. We use it for our Active Directory and Exchange servers. The solution has worked well.
We're not yet using VMware Cloud on AWS or vSphere's built-in security features.
View full review »We're using it to run all kinds of workloads.
View full review »UB
reviewer1702059
self-employed
We are using VMware vSphere for our internal management systems. Additionally, we are running the Acronis backup solution, which is partly running on vSphere.
View full review »FW
reviewer1611207
Information Technology Manager & Chief Information Officer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
We use it to create virtual machines and things like that.
View full review »FK
reviewer1390431
Head Of Network & Technical Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We are using this solution for a lot of proposes, such as in production environments.
View full review »DA
Daniel Aramayo
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.
It's a VDI and also for virtualized machines. We use it for digitized databases.
View full review »MC
reviewer1377360
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for virtualization and management.
View full review »PE
ReviewerP859
Head of Technological Architecture at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We virtualize our infrastructure with this solution.
View full review »I have been a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) since 2008 and did several projects for server consolidation on-premise and migration to vSphere-based cloud. Currently, I am working on project to build a private cloud on-premise with Cisco FlexPod (Multipod environment stretched over two datacenters). The Cisco FlexPod includes Cisco UCS (computing), Cisco ACI (networking), VMware vSphere (virtualization), and NetApp (storage).
View full review »SB
reviewer1347297
Engineering Manager, R&D at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use VMware vSphere in order to get access to the data center worldwide.
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reviewer1363245
CIO at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Basically, our operation cluster is hiding under vSphere.
View full review »JS
NetworkA3fbb
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
We use it to virtualize our server infrastructure.
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reviewer1739175
VMware PSO Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case for the solution right now is for a project regarding Telecom Italia. We are working with the telecom. It is mostly regarding the private cloud. The main reason for having all of these products and solutions altogether is to reach the cloud director and to have the private cloud for Telecom Italia.
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Luca Olivotto
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We are resellers and consultants who provide solutions for our clients.
They manage the virtual machines, such as CPU usage, or memory usage, or disk space.
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sedson52
Lead System Engineer at MITRE Corporation
Our primary use case is infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
View full review »SK
Sree Kumar
Infrastructure Manager at Petrolink
We use this solution for production workloads.
View full review »We use VMware vSphere for many things in our business, such as ERP software, file sharing, and back office. Additionally, we use it for many types of servers, such as database and file servers.
View full review »MS
Mohab Samy
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
We use this solution for financial full disclosure, end-user computing, and for private cloud.
View full review »TC
reviewer1109874
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has many uses, such as consolidation, VDI workloads, and server virtualization.
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reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have co-located our servers in different data centers, and these co-located servers are in a cluster. For storage, we are using vSAN, and for compute, we are using vSphere 6.7. We will be upgrading to version 7 in due course.
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Huy Le Quang
Cloud Professional Architect at FPT Software
- Cloud computing service (IaaS)
- Private/hybrid cloud
- Virtualization infrastructure
- Virtualization desktop infrastructure.
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Hazem Mohamed
Deputy Manager IT at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is a powerful solution which enables us to take a snapshot and clone any virtual machine. It is also a centralized platform for hypervisoring that speeds up the migration between the nodes.
View full review »JM
Justin Melton
Engineering Manager at Turnkey Cyber Solutions
- Enterprise Infrastructure.
- We are distributed across the nation and are primarily all remote employees. I was able to build our private cloud with the tool.
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ITProfes763a
IT Professional with 5,001-10,000 employees
I'm building a VDI center and a second-tier user. In terms of mission-critical apps, we use it for our executive pool of users to secure their everyday work. Sometimes we use it for distance education programs as well.
It has been performing pretty well.
View full review »Virtualization of servers: Use of the solution to reduce the space usage in the data center. Also, for hyper-convergence, you can virtualize the storage.
View full review »MU
reviewer2263155
Lead Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We use VMware vSphere to deploy and manage VMs.
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Yan BENOIST
Entrepreneur at WindiS
The solution is primarily used to house VMs, virtual machines.
View full review »SM
Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
I have used VMware products at five different software companies, and it was mainly used for the following functions: development environments, QA systems, internal infrastructures like wikis or ticketing.
View full review »BK
Barna Kosa
IT Services Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use the solution mainly for testing our internal systems. We are providing support and solution for clients and we have to test the solutions.
View full review »CT
Costinel Tunsoiu
Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have Hyper-V on a physical machine and another virtual machine. We are using this because of iSCSI, and we are using VMware for performance and production.
View full review »MM
reviewer274092
Vice President with 1-10 employees
We primarily use this solution for replication purposes we have, and to back up information in HR (High Resolution) mode.
View full review »JL
Jose Vladimir Leon Higueras
Virtualization Solutions Specialist at datec
My primary use case is defense hyper combat fan solutions.
View full review »NW
reviewer1487706
Head of Technical at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use vSphere primarily for data center solutions. We migrated most of the physical workloads to a virtual environment. Even physical data center migrations were made possible because of VMware workloads. We had replication workloads using such technology for DR purposes. I've also deployed a Nutanix cluster with the VMware Hypervisor.
MW
ITManageb049
IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees
The primary use is to manage all of our virtual machines/servers and the ESX host. It is performing well.
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reviewer1468668
Executive Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have been using ESXi hypervisors with vCenter. We use it for both private and public clouds.
View full review »RT
reviewer1351206
Directeur Production, Infrastructure et Architecture IT at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use VMware vSphere to run all my applications in a private cloud. I had all the applications in the standalone mode. I migrated them to the cloud.
View full review »SJ
reviewer887736
Professional ICT at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
I have the whole server park in VMware and I have about 14 VDI desktops for Windows 7. I'm not happy with the performance. It's slow. Maybe it's the graphics, because I don't have a graphics card in this server.
View full review »We are a construction business and this solution enables us to securely operate our technology. We are customers of VMware vSphere and I'm the company's head of IT.
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reviewer1445340
Director Global Security at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is server virtualization and it brings stability to our workloads.
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Carlos Rodriguez
Pre-sales engineer
We use this product as a solution for backups and security.
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WindowsSbd99
Windows Systems Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's how we manage our server infrastructure virtually.
View full review »JC
reviewer1738062
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
VMware vSphere is used for virtualization.
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reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
VMware vSphere is capable of a wide range of tasks, including file sharing, database management, email, active directory, and much more.
View full review »We have a lot of different machines running on this solution.
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reviewer1379943
Product Management & Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VMware vSphere is deployed in our data centers. We provide services to our customers by allowing them to use our infrastructure. We have lots of customers from different sectors, such as financial, educational, and retail.
View full review »DN
reviewer935562
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We are using the latest version.
We use it for virtual machines. It is a platform which can be used to provide infrastructure for virtualization.
DL
virtuali332868
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use most of the VMware products primarily in server virtualization.
View full review »ES
reviewer1333554
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use it in the data centers of our customers for server consolidation and new deployments.
View full review »AU
ReviewerU8183
Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
We started using this just for virtualization, but now we have gone into creating private cloud features for our customers.
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VMware vSphere
March 2024
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