# vCenter Server Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

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vCenter Server

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of vCenter Server

Ease of use

4.4

Customer Service

4.4

## Pros and Cons in Reviews

SW

Sam W

EngineerAirlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“High usability, very intuitive interfaces and great support available both community and direct through VMWare.“

January 6, 2025

SV

Stjepan V

IT Platform ManagerInternet, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“There are still some features missing that exist in Flash WEB client; vSAN monitoring is buggy, export of listed events/tasks,inventory is not possible in HTML5 client.“

June 26, 2020

JV

JESUS V

Server AdministratorInformation Technology and Services, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“The most stable software to work with virtual machines“

December 12, 2024

SV

Stjepan V

IT Platform ManagerInternet, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“Sorting of columns in active tasks (in bottom frame) is often jumping/rearranging as task finishes and making it unusable for monitoring.“

June 26, 2020

TA

Turan A

Information Tech.Automotive, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“It enabled multiple HOSTs to be managed from a single point at the same time under a single platform and combined all processes at a single point.“

December 4, 2022

CC

Carlos Hugo Martin C

ConsultorInformation Technology and Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“It allows the management of virtual machines to be more effective, to the point that an automation is reached based on the consumption of the services published in it.“

January 3, 2022

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Jose de Jesus R.  
Gerencia de Área Plataforma Tecnológica  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Use of VCenter, my great experience"

June 5, 2018

5.0

To be able to share with a great audacity the experience of using the software that I use on a daily basis so that I can also get to know the experience of other end users, learn from their experiences, recommendations and experiences within the professional, technical and personal spheres. Widely recommended, the first time I use it I would recommend it 100% to other professionals, who want to share their experience and experience.

Pros

For more than 10 years I have been a VMWare VCenter user, in which I have been able to experience the great benefits of a software that allows to have centralized administration of all the resources of a virtual environment. The creation of teams is considerably simplified, since the allocation of resources is very fast, the management of the configuration of the networks and the storage elements are now easy to use and assign. With the new virtualization technology used by VMWare VCenter, the computing centers have great scalability, the remote management of data centers for disaster reoccupation is very effective. The creation, administration and configuration of Virtual Networks is also one of the best advantages of VCenter, its implementation is quick and easy. The backup of the virtual environment is also easy to perform, in this way the operation of my services will be guaranteed in case of any application or operating system failure, I no longer have to worry. I have used it with different brands of hardware in different companies and it seems to me that the product behaves equally fast and versatile. I feel more secure and confident in every moment, I recommend it tirelessly.

Cons

One of the few advantages that VMWare VCenter has is that it adapts to only medium and large companies for its cost, it is worth using, the hardware to be used must be of great potential in order to make the most of the resources and exploit them for the benefit of the company and thus have 100% utilization. Another disadvantage that it has is having a VCenter cluster, that is having two or more VCenter having access to the same database so that in case of failure it can continue the operation as if it had not roasted anything, for this modality it must be have a clone of the VCenter turned off and turn on in case of error and not recovery of the original VCenter, this generates waste of time for lack of this process is automatic.

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CHMC

Carlos Hugo Martin C.  
Consultor  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Experience with vCenter Server"

January 3, 2022

5.0

Platform management in data centers

Pros

It allows the management of virtual machines to be more effective, to the point that an automation is reached based on the consumption of the services published in it.

Cons

To get the most out of the tools, many of its features are not as accessible, and the latest features require modern infrastructure.

Alternatives considered

[Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization](https://www.capterra.com/p/119860/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Virtualization/)[VirtualBox](https://www.capterra.com/p/169939/VirtualBox/)

Reason for choosing vCenter Server

They do not have as many functionalities as vCenter Server

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Certified Clinical Research Coordinator  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great when it works but upgrade issues are abundant"

November 21, 2018

3.0

Pros

This software is a huge timesaver and communication tool when the connection is working correctly. It makes it very easy to view your virtual desktop wherever you are and have read/write access to your files on the go. This is the only reason people in our company are able to work at home, which is a huge pro.

Cons

There seem to be frequent issues regaining a connection when there is a new version upgrade. The system doesn't seem to always recognize the upgrade and you end up having to delete and re-download the program to establish a connection.

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Chris S.  
Lead System Engineer  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "vSphere is nothing without vCenter"

October 16, 2018

4.0

I have administered and managed hundreds (maybe thousands) of VMs with vCenter. Used the last 3 major versions and they are constantly improving and adding features and increasing the hardware limitations (a VM with 1TB of RAM!!).

Pros

vCenter puts all the awesome technologies and features together in a manageable environment. vCenter is the first step in clustering resources into no longer seeing individual hardware servers as important. Virtualize compute, storage, and network so as to be one seamless datacenter resource. vCenter is compatible and integrated with so many other products and VMware's powershell library for vCenter is exhasutive.

Cons

Like vSphere, it can get pricey. And as of the most recent release, I don't think that there is a really good high availability solution for the vCenter VM itself so that if it dies, you may be left doing alot of manual work until you can bring it back up.

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Ravi S.  
Manager customer engineering  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best in class resource management software"

May 9, 2022

5.0

Pros

It provides centralized monitoring and resource management for VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure. Important features include: Centralize Administration Multi-hypervisor management Live Migration of VM Live migration of Storage High Availability (HA) Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Fault Tolerance (FT) Centralize Patch Management Can implement automation and API Content library Host Profile

Cons

Nothing as of now. All features desired to manage CPU and storage are seemless.

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Randy H.  
Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "vCenter Server - Rock Solid"

April 26, 2022

5.0

Great!

Pros

VMware vCenter Server is a rock solid platform from which vSphere, Horizon View, etc run and is supremely reliable. Up time is 99.99% and performance is top tier.

Cons

Not a negative, but vCenter Server is a Linux based application, and many are not familiar with Linux which can make support an issue without the right personnel.

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Rajitha W.  
System Support Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Virtualization is the best"

December 3, 2018

5.0

overall this is superb technology and interesting GUI. Using this it is very easy to manage virtual servers and manage network and storage. this is totally easy rather than using more physical servers

Pros

This is one of the best solution for virtualization. It is easy to implement the technology and easy to Manage physical ESXi hosts and virtual machines as well. There are lot of functionalities in this vcenter sever and we can make every virtual machine highly available with zero downtime. User interface is very easy and descriptive as well.

Cons

in network slowness sometimes vcenter will go to hang state. It is the one of main problem.

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Eric L.  
Systems Engineer & Database Support  
Food Production  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The Way to Manage Multiple Hosts"

August 28, 2018

5.0

This software allows me to have multiple servers on very little hardware and have redundancy so my business stays running 24/7. It is part of my enterprise no matter what company I work for.

Pros

This makes it very simple to manage multiple ESXi hosts in one pane of glass. It's fairly easy to use once you understand the basics but has the ability to be very powerful.

Cons

I don't like how the latest management is all web based. Before you can use a stand alone client but now you must access via a web console. It is not as polished as the app.

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Joseph L.  
IT Manager  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Twice the Fun!"

November 22, 2018

5.0

vCenter is a must if you are using ESX for your Hypervisor.

Pros

Great way to manage your entire virtual infrastructure and integration all your favorite IT solutions for a one stop shop. Now you can have redundant vCenters!

Cons

Sizing vCenter to fit your needs is a bit of trial and error. Also, we have had to apply a handful of tweaks and workaround for issue throughout the years.

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Chris L.  
Sr. UNIX Systems Admin  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "I use vCenter to manage a worldwide install base of vSphere servers. "

March 7, 2018

4.0

Pros

Fast, stable, consistent, time-proven software. Well known by existing support staff and potential new hires, very little training needed. Easy to understand UI

Cons

High license costs. I preferred the windows based thick client which is being depreciated in favor of the less capable web client.

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JV

JESUS V.  
Server Administrator  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### " vCenter Server is top between tops"

December 12, 2024

5.0

The most stable and reliable in the market, the best solution to manage the virtual environment

Pros

\-The most stable software to work with virtual machines -The dashboards to manage ESXi hosts and Datastores is very easy -The security patches are deploying very fast to fix issues. -The features like vMotion to move virtual machines in real time is amazing -The dashboard to see the performance to each host is very easy. -We can setup alerts of any element in the dashboard, like virtual machines, datastore, licenses and more.

Cons

\-The cost, since that Broadcom bought VMware the price was increased -The reporting is a weak feature to analyze and see the performance of each virtual machine.

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TF

Taryn F.  
Software Specialist  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "vCenter is"

April 19, 2022

5.0

Overall, with vSphere being our most used virual server software, vCenter is a critical, useful and simple tool for centralized management.

Pros

Excellent central management tool. vCenter simplifies daily tasks, and reduces the complexity of managing multiple virtual servers. Great dashboard.

Cons

vCenter is on the more expensive tool, and running multiple vSphere servers, is almost impossible without the purchase of a vCenter license.

Reason for choosing vCenter Server

Due to the high use of vSphere in the environment, vCenter is the obvious choice.

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Ben L.  
Sr. Systems Engineer  
Media Production  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "vCenter is THE tool to manage your VMware Environment"

November 17, 2016

5.0

If you have more than 2-3 VMware hosts, you NEED vCenter! There is no other tool to manage your virtual environment. And the features you get with vCenter, like Templates, Distributed Switches, etc....

Pros

As a virtualization Engineer, I've been a big fan of vCenter as you cannot manage your vCenter environment without it.

Cons

The vSphere Web Client for vCenter 5.5 and 6.0 is slow.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Network Administrator  
Restaurants  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "VMWare is an amazing product for your business"

April 1, 2019

5.0

We love VMWare here and they also have an excellent support team.

Pros

With VMWare VirtualCenter we manage almost 300 virtual servers with ease.

Cons

I liked their old software installed GUI prior to them forcing us to use their new web interface. It's fine it's just not as quick to use as the old software was in my opinion.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Technical Consultant  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Single pane of glass to manage your virtual environment"

May 30, 2018

5.0

Pros

Perform vmotion or storage vmotion to easily relocate virutal machines. Also like the HA and DRS features build in to VCenter

Cons

not all features being available in the vsphere web client and the vsphere client is a bit of a con for me.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
sr systems engineer  
Government Administration  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Vcentre server reduces the pain of logging "

January 5, 2021

5.0

really good and

Pros

Vcentre servers developed a lot these days multiple vcentres can be accomidated in a single vcentre .reducimg system admins to login

Cons

licensing cost if you are enterprise it will be cheap

Reason for choosing vCenter Server

hyperV

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SH

Sameh H.  
Information Tecnology professinal  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Good reporting and features, Easy to setup Servers, Easy to monitring any clusters."

November 29, 2022

5.0

It is an amazing app, It's useful for any one in this career.

Pros

it helps me to do any virtualization server, Easy to work on it.

Cons

It a good app to handle any client or any issue, Overall I like all features

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Awesome software."

March 25, 2018

5.0

learnt Linux OS.

Pros

A beginner can easily work/learn any kind of operating sysytem using this software without installing the OS on the base machine.

Cons

I have used atrail version of this software and bought a full version of this software, which clearly shows that i didn't find any difficulties in this software.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior Systems Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Hands down, the most open and feature rich hypervisor management tool in existence."

February 6, 2018

5.0

Ease of deploying additional hardware agnostic virtual machines.

Pros

vCenter is easily deployed, does not require an OS license, and takes very little resources to manage a datacenter.

Cons

The current implementation of VMRC (VMware Remote Console) has many bugs that sometimes make it difficult to work on the console of a virtual machine.

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RT

Rik T.  
Server Manager  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "VMWare vCenter"

November 19, 2018

4.0

We use VMWare for our virtual server environment.

Pros

I like the centralized control of our virtual environment and the ability to shift systems from host to host without any noticeable lag.

Cons

Moving to the web interface only in 6.5 and 6.7 has been a pain to find the things I use the most.

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oY

orhangazi Y.  
System Architect  
Banking  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Management Center for your Datacenter"

April 2, 2019

5.0

I can manage my all virtual environment, with lots of capabilities.

Pros

I can use vcenter from anywhere I can connect to my network, from any browser.

Cons

Flash version is a bit slower than the html, but after 6.7 full support for html version is presented.

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AD

Aykan D.  
Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "SDDC"

March 26, 2019

4.0

Pros

The Vmware Products its not only standalone software, if you think SDDC concept, you are right way..

Cons

if you want to VMWare products you need more money.

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Gerson M.  
IT Consultant  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Client Satisfaction warrantied "

January 16, 2018

5.0

Pros

Pros: - Native integration with VMware platforms. - Centralized control - Easy to install and easy to use - Multilingual, just set your preferred language, I highly recommend English - Data Backup... I can go on and on.. This software is a Must!!!

Cons

Nothing bad to say about this product. Maybe that adding more complexity not always is accepted ad good. I don't say is not good...

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Tejas G.  
Associate Security Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Best and easy to use tool for creating virtual environment machines"

October 2, 2018

4.0

I found this tool is friendlier than other virtual environment tools.

Pros

Using VMware, user can install any operating system onto the virtual environment such as windows, Linux etc. and could use the same adapters/driver of the physical machine. This tool runs very well on windows operating system which could be used for various purposes such as testing etc.

Cons

VMware might face connectivity problem while using the same network that of physical machine to the virtual environment

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RG

Ryan G.  
Advanced Clinical Applications and Analytics Coordinator  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great for managing the VR servers when you can't RDP"

June 14, 2018

4.0

Pros

The console feature when you're having issues with a PC--the ease in which you can view system resources for each individual virtual server

Cons

It's a bit of a learning curve if you aren't a network guy to figure out how the server farms work and where things really lie on the actual infrastructure.

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