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Easy to setup clusters, good reporting and features, nice options for upgrading and alerting. Been a good product for years.
Customer support almost non existent, tried getting in contact many times but to no avail. Really unstable, would be doing work and the system would crash.
We have been using VMware vCenter for over 5 years and find that it is a great central source to manage all of your hosts. This is a fairly easy to use product with great upside.
Vmware Vcenter presents some very difficult to identify errors.
The best part about vCenter is the ease of use in managing large environments. The design is very straightforward and it includes wizards to help even beginners quickly manage their environment.
Sometimes we have presented conflicts of the ports with other present applications. Requires more technical knowledge.
The creation, administration and configuration of Virtual Networks is also one of the best advantages of VCenter, its implementation is quick and easy.
VMware might face connectivity problem while using the same network that of physical machine to the virtual environment.
Their customer service is also outstanding. I had to reach out for an issue and I received a reply and a recommended course of action the very same day, just a few hours later.
I lost a lot of time troubleshooting a converted VM that had more than one hard disk configured.
Parallels is overall very good software for running virtual machines on your Mac. Emulation is top notch and the feature set is pretty powerful and flexible.
Caused some settings to be lost or changed for scanner and other peripherals.
I love the integrated view... being able to launch a Windows program from the System Dock on the Mac is wonderful. Instead of having to switch windows or spaces.
I tried hard to think of a con, but am coming up blank.
The ability to have the Windows OS right on your Mac laptop just like any other app on your laptop and to have multiple versions of the OS. It is truly like having another laptop with you.
It got laggy sometimes and crashed for no reason (as mac user you dont get that a lot with apple software.
Chris: My name is Chris, I'm a lead system engineer at a higher education institution, and I give vCenter Server a five out of five rating. Before arriving at vCenter Server I have used and evaluated products like Hyper-V, Oracle VM, and KVM, and they do not have the same feature parody that vCenter Server has, so we have moved away from software like those in favor of vCenter Server. We chose vCenter Server over some of the other software titles because of their feature set. They're best in class in virtualization management, things like snapshotting options, V motion, storage V motion, and it gets us into a larger ecosystem with other VMware software titles that allow you to do a lot more management. But vCenter Server is kind of that platform that you got to build on, and it has the features that we need, and does them the best. The integration and onboarding of vCenter Server was I would say one of the most user-friendly. It is not a whole lot to get started, they make the implementation of vCenter and connectivity with your vSphere hosts straightforward, the installation process is pretty straightforward, and to make it so that others can help manage VMs in vCenter Server, not only is the user interface really friendly and easy to use, but it has API integrations where you can then plug in outside third party software to help you manage and do things like backups and replication. You can use their APIs to write your own code, if that's something your group wants to do. And yeah, just the accessibility of the software, programmatically or in a user-friendly way, is a really straightforward process to get started and implemented. If you were thinking about implementing vCenter Server, my recommendation is to look at the features that you get with vCenter Server. You will notice that they simply have best in class features. Look at how the different methods of implementing things like data stores, data store clusters, the features for dynamic resource scheduling, and their networking features that allow you to do a lot of creative things that will fit your environment. And my recommendation is just compare that with other vendors and see how they do it, and I think you'll notice that vCenter just gives you that flexibility, and their product is able to actually do what they say it will do, and they will give you, at least I believe they'll give you a pretty lengthy trial, if you just want to implement it in your environment, see it, use it and work with it, and I think going that route, you'll see right away the benefits of how they do virtualization management over some of the competitors. So that would be my recommendation.
Joe: Hi, my name is Joe. I am an independent music producer and I give Parallels Remote Desktop a five out of five. And for more reviews like this, just click below. I used an awful lot of products, including Splashtop, and actually even tried the Windows Remote Desktop and Remote PC. All of them were a bit more wonky than Parallels, and Parallels won me over. I chose Parallels because it worked very seamlessly. In the music industry, there are two conflicting worlds, which are Mac and PC, and it really helps to work together. And it feels to me when I'm working with a colleague, that we're literally working on the same computer together. The setup of Parallels was just really simple. I downloaded it, paid for it, and I was up and running. It was great. If you work in a dual world like Mac and PC, like I do, I can't think of a better software than Parallels. It just makes your life really simple.
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