# vSphere Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is vSphere the right Virtualization solution for you? Explore 433 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/reviews --- vSphere 4.7 (433) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of vSphere Ease of use 4.4 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews CQ Connor Q Team LeadMedia Production, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “A solid industry standard platform that provides reliable virtualisation at scale. As the industry leader it excels at consolidating workloads, VM availability and providing excellent host and VM control for live/production environments.“ April 15, 2026 Sumit S Director Academic Analytics and FeedbacksEducation Management, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “some of the common pain points or challenges associated with vSphere are cost, complex pricing model and steep learning curve“ January 13, 2025 HN Harshad N Technical Support expertInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It provides high-security features in managing VMs by giving access control based on users and roles.“ February 3, 2025 RB René B AdministratorAutomotive, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Now when you have to get a new licence the price is doubled or trippled.“ June 6, 2025 Sumit S Director Academic Analytics and FeedbacksEducation Management, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “vSphere is a robust virtualization platform offered by VMware, and there are several standout aspects about it that users often appreciate.“ January 13, 2025 Owen M Technical Consulting EngineerComputer Software, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The new pricing and licensing scheme makes it difficult to use this product.“ August 7, 2024 Sumit S Director Academic Analytics and FeedbacksEducation Management, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “Some of the features I find most notable about vSphere are Enterprise-Grade Virtualization and vMotion“ January 13, 2025 CR Cameron R Information TechnologyFinancial Services, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “As Broadcom purchased vSphere things have been changing and making things more difficult.“ October 14, 2024 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 433 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use sagar J. System Administrator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Vmware Vsphere " April 24, 2021 4.0 It's cost-effective - pay as use concept if no need stop your services and get free from billings Space Effective - physical to virtual conversation helps you to save your infra space which is not possible in case of physical deployment Why Vsphere - it a product of a leading virtualization vendor. Pros Vsphere - Vcenter is the platform where you can create configure and customize the virtual machines as per the customer requirement Vsphere allows you to synchronize with multiple host/nodes, which helps you run the features of high availability smart server deployment. Vsphere has various products which help every smaller multinational organization to manage their cloud infrastructures. Vpshere allows you the features which highly recommended and essential to smoothly run any organization. Vsphere is the product of Vmware and the vendor is running in the top list of virtualization providers Features of Vsphere High Availability - Providing the high SLA Distributor resource scheduler - smart deployment of servers Distributor power management - save you cost Fault Tolerance - Zero downtime Wow that you rarely get with any other virtualization platform. Cons Vsphere should be licensed purchased it's not allowed you to run the infra after 30 days of trial. There are various packages available for their products, so small-level organizations are supposed to run all features they have to pay the cost of the required product. Should require stronger connectivity to access your Vsphere smoothly. Alternatives considered [AWS CloudFormation](https://www.capterra.com/p/205397/CloudFormation/)[Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) Reason for choosing vSphere 1.Its and leader and long-running organization of virtualization 2.Provided the back end which is useful for smooth transactions of your servers and infrastructure. 3.Updated product with the current requirement Switched from [AWS CloudFormation](https://www.capterra.com/p/205397/CloudFormation/)[Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) 1.For performance enhancement 2.For running additional and high ended features. 3.For customer satisfaction. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Hr manager and technical assistant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Reliable Virtualization Software: vSphere " December 26, 2024 4.0 I love using vSphere because vSphere is widely regarded as one of the most robust and feature-rich virtualization platforms on the market. It excels in creating and managing virtualized environments, offering high performance, scalability, and reliability so my overall experience is 8.5 out of 10. Pros vSphere is a virtualization software which is well for its reliability. The most important feature that I love most about this service is that it allows multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server, ensuring hardware resources are fully utilized also it include features like Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) automatically allocate resources based on workload demands. Cons I don't face any big issue on using vSphere but I fell it's expensive licensing and subscription costs as well as UI portion can be improved more Switched from [ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.capterra.com/p/251336/ManageEngine-OpManager/) from my personal opinion it's reliability and our company's decision as well. Review Source CQ Connor Q. Team Lead Media Production Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Gold Standard; - At least until clients are completely priced out" April 15, 2026 3.0 Vsphere overall remains in my opinion the industry leader in enterprise virtualisation, and absolutely still sets the standard that others are mesaured against. Weighed heavily against that though is the crushing price model that have forced the majority of smaller and medium sized businesses (and even some larger enterprise corporations) into choosing less mature solutions and competitors; so much so that it almost completely removes Vsphere and it's associated suite from the runnings, if not immediately then at least long enough for administrators to figure out a plan to migrate away. As a result these competitors are receiving more funding and seem to be catching up much faster than previous years (Hyper-V, Nutanix, Openshift, etc) Pros A solid industry standard platform that provides reliable virtualisation at scale. As the industry leader it excels at consolidating workloads, VM availability and providing excellent host and VM control for live/production environments. Features like vMotion, HA and DRS and critical and non-negotiable for maintaining resources without disruption and providing a seemless experience for end users and hosted applications. keeping downtime minimal and providing reliable infrastructure management and uptime helps VMWare and Vsphere sit comfortably at the head of the table, especially when discussing on-premise (non cloud) virtualisation options. Cons The biggest issue with Vsphere, by far, is the remodelling of their pricing and licensing structure. Since Broadcom purchased the vendor, they have narrowed their desired client-base to a fraction of their existing market, meaning that many small and medium enterprises are left in a very difficult situation, having to choose between switching to less mature technologies, or choosing to maintain their current stack at significantly hiked price margins. The recent shift away from perpetual licensing and towards core-based subscriptions has created a much more volatile and inflexible cost case for the vast majority of customers, and the constant restructuring of varying editions and packages makes it much more confusing when navigating renewals and the associated uncertainties. Review Source BP Brittany P. Desktop Support Teechnician Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "vSphere is a Virtuosic and Verbose Virtualization Vessel." March 15, 2025 5.0 vSphere is a robust solution for virtualization offering features such as vMotion for live migration of virtual machines, although costly, ease of use and scalability are just a few reasons why vSphere is worth the price. Pros vSphere is an established platform and has a strong track record in virtualization and cloud computing. Cons Licensing and implementation can be on the more expensive side for smaller businesses. Review Source SMT Soe Moe T. System Engineer Infrastructure Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent Virtualization Platform" May 11, 2025 4.0 Pros As a System Engineer, Vmware Virtualization is very excellent platform. We don't need to spend the a lot of physical server. The most I like about vSphere features are: 1. High Availability and DRS 2. Live Migration with vMotion 3. very simple and easy to use other than virtualization 4. A lot of Knowledge Base and strong community 5. Vmware Site Recovery Manager 6. VM Host Affinity Rules Cons I don't have much about vSphere. But now We can't download the vmware and vcenter path file in Broadcom portal. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Engineering IT Food & Beverages Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great virtualisation tool" January 22, 2025 5.0 Pros I use VmWare vSphere for infrastructure virtualisation in the Cloud Cons Hardware restrictions for installing vSphere ESXI Switched from [Proxmox VE](https://www.capterra.com/p/210797/Proxmox-VE/) vSphere is much more stable and professional Review Source IM Ilario M. ICT Infrastructure Manager Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "de facto the Hypervisor virtualization solution" March 22, 2025 5.0 vSphere is the most known, stable and used hypervisor OS; we use it in every site for both general purpose server infrastructures and VDI solutions. Pros Stability, options, features, wide knowledge base on 3rd party partner Cons after acquisition by Broadcom, price too high Review Source jV jesus V. Server Administrator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMware is the best solution to virtualization" November 28, 2024 5.0 VMware is the very stable and very easy to management, really the price is expensive but the features and services are the best option in the market of virtualization. Pros \-VMotion service to migrate virtual machines in real time is amazing. -The stability of the system working with clusters is the best option the in the market. -A lot compatibility with physical storages -Amazing management to discover datastores created in the physical storages. -The security updates to fix vulnerabilities are published very quick. -The dashboard to management our clusters is very easy to see and very light to load a lot of data in the dashboards. -The upgrades improve the VMware environment with new capabilities in storages and new OS published. Cons \-Since January 2025 the prices increased in a 600% in the licenses, in others subsidiaries the prices increased around 1000%. -Now the prices are very expensive. Review Source AK Alex K. Systems Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best product in server virtualization " March 8, 2025 5.0 Pros The product is still the best out there for on premise server virtualization for many reasons. Cons It's not the cheapest in the market. Recently there have been some QA related bugs but appears to have improved with the Broadcom acquisition. Review Source HN Harshad N. Technical Support expert Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Managing Virtual Machines." February 3, 2025 5.0 Managing VMs for large environments and taking care of high availability configurations is easy with Vsphere. Environment is very much secure and vmotion helps in easy migration of environment. It is very stable product. Pros 1\. It provides high-security features in managing VMs by giving access control based on users and roles. 2. It provides quick migration support. 3. Managing VMs and features like load balancing . hardware recovery is simple. Cons 1\. Setting cost is too much high. 2. Product is difficult and learning curve is too extensive. Review Source UZ Uriel Z. Sr Systems Engineer Security and Investigations Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Using vSphere virtualization on your company" December 12, 2024 4.0 I have been working with vsphere for around 8 years now, and I can say, it has been a really good experience, I even got my vsphere 7 certification, it is a really good virtualization product, that offers you HA, and a really high resilience, it is useful for all type of size environments. Pros Having several VMS using vmware technology to take advantage of less physical hardware Cons The new licensing model implemented by Broadcom Review Source CR Cameron R. Information Technology Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Virtual Machine Management for On Prem or Datacenter enviornments." October 14, 2024 5.0 Great until Broadcom purchased it otherwise still works as expected. Pros The ease of use regarding Virtual Machine management, setup, and customization. Cons As Broadcom purchased vSphere things have been changing and making things more difficult. Review Source Onur P. Co-Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "vSphere Review" August 11, 2024 5.0 My overall experience with vSphere is impressive. Pros We really liked the ease of installation and integration on virtualization processes of vSphere. Cons Customer support processes can be enhanced and reaching time to support can be reduced. Review Source Kevin M. IT Consultant/Lecturer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best virtualizing solution" July 28, 2020 5.0 Vmware’s vSphere is one of those products that you despite its cost you will never feel like you made a bad investment buying. It gives me so many options when it comes to remote management of all the software I have running within the local ecosystem. What was really impressive was how we were able to demo newer enterprise software within a control environment giving us a perspective that we would have never had given the old software that was present. With the recent Corvid outbreak, we were actually able to implement VPNs and grant remote access without having to invest in new hardware. Pros Stability and scaling were very important to me when choosing a solution to my problems. One of my clients had an old ERP software connected to an equally old version of SQL server. Pressed to upgrade and incorporate newer cloud base services I had to find something that could be used in the interim but could be shaped slowly to match our needs. I chose vSphere and it worked out very well. Having something that remote workers could access, that was stable and secure meant we able to weather the storm. The ESXi is easy to access as it is web based. Now I run all our servers on VMWare with an integrated remote cloud service for backup. Just the ability to preserve data stored in the vintage ERP alone was worth the cost. Cons While the ESXi is easy to access its can be confusing at first. Its hard to focus on what you need to see as the interface is very cluttered. Also, Hardware requirements and licensing can be taxing. While it was critical to protect our data no matter the cost the costing and implementation still felt a bit excessive. There is also huge learning curve when it comes to using some of vSphere’s functions When incorporating it into your on-site datacenter you will definitely need to train your staff or hire an expert cloud technician to monitor and manage your cloud services. Reason for choosing vSphere VMWare is considered the industry standard for Virtualization and clud services. Review Source Przemek P. Lead, Infrastructure Specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Manage big virtual environment!" November 2, 2023 5.0 I enjoy using vSphere every day to connect to my virtual environment. This makes my job easier when testing application security because I can run tests on multiple machines and in multiple configurations at the same time. Pros I really like the reliability of vSphere. It's hard for me to remember situations when I had a problem connecting to the virtual environment or when it was unstable. Working with virtual machines and their configuration is very simple. Restoring machines to their initial state or reconfiguring them takes little time and you can focus on their effective use. Cons If I were to change something in vSphere it would be the User Interface UI. Unfortunately, tab navigation and menus are not well designed and require some getting used to. Better interface planning could improve productivity and user satisfaction. Review Source JSB Jagat Singh B. Technical Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere" August 23, 2022 5.0 Easy to use and very helpful to create a virtual machine if you have a template and it will be ready within 5 minutes. It reduces the network and disk I/O failure. Pros With the help of vSphere VMware ESXi, we can create and run virtual machines immediately. We don't need to take care of dedicated physical hardware and maintain it by itself. Cons I didn't face any issues yet with the vSphere ESXi component. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Systems Engineer Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere" December 16, 2021 5.0 We went virtual in 2007 using vSphere and have never looked back. vSphere is the backbone of our datacenter environments and has allowed us to provide resources for application owners as well as integrate with products like VMWare Site Recovery Manager, so we can protect our data across multiple datacenters. It is a fantastic product. Pros When managed via vCenter, distributing virtual machines amongst distributed resources is about the most powerful aspect of this product. It allows administrators to maximize value from hardware purchases and create internal redundancies and high availability. Cons vSphere 7 introduced a new strategy in the use of the host boot disk to the point that certain types of boot disks were burning out and causing host servers to crash. VMWare now forcing customers to buy new hardware for existing hosts in order to avoid downtime. Review Source MW Matt W. AM Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMWare vSphere" May 28, 2024 5.0 Pros It is a simple solution for managing VMs. Cons Upgrading the software could be a little easier. Review Source VC Vincenzo C. Mr. Professional Training & Coaching Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "It has no comparison" November 13, 2023 4.0 Pros I believe that today there is no similar system in terms of reliability and stability with a series of incredible additional services. Virtualizing today means Vmware!! Cons I can't find any topic where I didn't like Vmware. Reason for choosing vSphere There are no serious alternative products to Vmware today. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Support Newspapers Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere is software tah i use for VM Server" May 19, 2023 5.0 With vSphere i can control mw VM Server anytime with faster and easier Pros The most i like form vSphere is the software is fast and easy to use Cons There is nothing yet about vSphere that i least like Review Source Belmin K. ICT Specialist & Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The absolute BEST software for virtualization" June 12, 2023 5.0 It's my favorite software in terms of virtualization.The deployments become easy as soon as you make some experience.The software stability is awesome, it's easy to manage, the dashboard is intuitive, it integrates perfectly with Veeam for the backup part and it has a lot of useful knowledge base threads in case you need support. Pros Amazing overall stability, a lot of docs available, good knowledge base, loads of good integrations, easy to manage and super intuitive dashboard. Cons The deployment might be difficult for newbies. Review Source Mahendra G. Office Clerk Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My Efficient Virtual Space " April 15, 2021 5.0 Here is very great and thankful experience using Vmware Vsphere , My lot of work are going to Smooth and Well organised My client issues solved by my team very amazingly and fast i think it’s very best and effective software for business and company so definitely i recommend this over any other software Pros VSphere is best and most efficient platform for manging virtual machine we can easily share the physically stored machine in the data centre to our client through the Vsphere , we can access and quickly resolve the issues of client using vsphere More well oraganizly Cons It’s most costly software but it provides lot of features but if you want to give suppose 20000 vms so you need to get the packages according your criteria, because each of version contains various no of vm’s such like vsphere 6.0 contain 10000 to 20000 , vsphere 7.0 contain 20000 to 30000 such like that so we need to pay accordingly our requirement so i think the price can differ and anyone can afford it for small businesses Review Source IM Ihab M. IT Infrastructure Head Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Virtualization = VMware" September 30, 2020 4.0 We no longer have to worry about buying new physical servers. We have 2 HPE blades chassis and 2 HPE Synergy across 4 location. VM migration between data centers is very helpful. hardware is being utilized at almost 85% and overall cost is certainly reduced. Pros I have been using VMware for almost 12 years, day to day operations had never been so easy. easy implementation and administration. we converted 95% of our server to virtual machines. My favorites features are online migration, high availability and DRS . Cons I didn't and still don't like the web interface, the old Windows application prior to version 5.5 was perfect and very effective. now with the new flash based interface is dissapointing. there is another HTML5 version but it lacks some features. i am hoping that they come up with a new version these days knowing that Flash plugins will no be longer supported. Reason for choosing vSphere There was nothing to compare at the beginning. Hyper V lacked most of the features and it was really poor. i can't say that now because I didn't have the chance to try the latest Hyper V but I was told that it got much better. However, I am not willing to change. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Tech Lead, Strategic Alliances and Business Development Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Extremely expensive but still worth it for legacy applications" March 9, 2019 5.0 vSphere revolutionized the datacenter and is still running strong after almost 30 years. Without it we might still be stuck in the stone ages without virtualization or cloud! Pros vSphere has been around for a while and is trusted for it's stability and reliability. If your applications are not built to fail, if you treat yours apps like pets vs cattle, you probably want to pay for VMware vSphere. Depending on your use case, vSphere may be the only game in town. For instance, if you want to do some complicated GPU sharding, only VMware has worked with Nvidia to offer this. Certainly feature wise, this is the most robust hypervisor on the market. They also have a large ecosystem, community, and excellent support. Cons The pricing is quite high and they try to justify this by including more and more management software, SDN, SDS in the overall vCloud offering. However it's still quite expensive and difficult to rationalize in smaller companies with challenging budgets. On the flip side, they have so many offerings now and have create a variety of total solutions which can fit any number of use cases. Review Source Parag P. MES Integration Lead / Business Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Virtualization taken to the next level" November 18, 2018 4.0 My overall experience of VMware vSphere is great, It is the most secure, efficinet and stable virtulization software in the market. Pros VMware vSphere is one of the best secure and efficient virtualization software. I found following Pros for the VMware vSphere. 1. Configure and create VMs with ease. 2. You can easily clone existing VM and create a mirror VM is no time. 3. Very intuitive Web and local vSphere client. 4. Always attentive support team. 5. Easily monitor the status of your VMs. Overall best in class virtualization software and way ahead of its competition. Cons Found very minimal issues with VMware vSphere. 1. The web client is slow and can be improved. 2. A user must have virtualization knowledge to use this software. 3. For the free version, the physical CPU core limit should be increased from 2 physical cores to at least 8 physical cores. 4. Bit overpriced. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Virtualization](https://www.capterra.com/virtualization-software/)[Virtual Private Server](https://www.capterra.com/virtual-private-server-software/)[Machine Learning](https://www.capterra.com/machine-learning-software/) ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.