# Page 4 | vSphere Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 4 - Is vSphere the right Virtualization solution for you? Explore 431 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 (431) [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 # Page 4 - Reviews of vSphere ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 431 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Joe E. Engineer Defense & Space Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMWare vSphere" December 16, 2019 5.0 We are able to host much more software on our servers, and manage them through vSphere. This is a large savings in hardware, and increases our reliability. vSphere makes it easier & cheaper to manage the software (VMs) in our environment. Pros This software is easy to use and has many powerful management features for our small data center. We have been using this for years and it has been stable and reliable without issue. Once you are familiar with it, very powerful actions can be taken with a minimum number of clicks-- a real time-saver! Cons It can take a bit of hunting to find the settings you are looking for-- the software provides many different views so it does take some time to become familiar with the location of what you're looking for. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior System Administrator Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMware vSphere" December 13, 2022 4.0 Can make easy to manage hundreds of vm with tens projects in one console. Pros vSphere is a perfect and complete sw for optimize resources, make cost saving and centralize management for production enviroment in mid-high tier companies.easy to use by console and powerful tool by api Cons sometimes snapshot can create little problems on disks consolidations in backup task, logs are 90% of time useless. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Manager Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best in its class" February 25, 2023 4.0 If you would like to have a real enterprise solution for Your virtualization environment I would definitely recommend this product. Pros The best part is having a full overview on dashboard and being able to monitor and troubleshoot every server easily without a few clicks. Cons I can’t complain about anything since evey part has been created efficiently. Alternatives considered [VirtualBox](https://www.capterra.com/p/169939/VirtualBox/) Review Source Srinath P. System admin Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great cloud platform for all type of users." September 27, 2021 4.0 We have around 2 years of experience in vmware and we like this appication very well. Pros We like many features in Vmware vshpere. HA, fault tolerance and drs are the best features in vmware. Cons We dont like the alerts coming in vmware, as many are false alerts. Review Source SM Swapnil M. Technology Lead Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The very best Windows Server virtualizing tool!" January 22, 2023 5.0 The software is extremely powerful and reliable, just the learning curve is very steep for new comers. Pros A ton of features to install and manage the virtual machines over multiple physical servers through vCentre. Cons More easily accessible and freely available training materials will be beneficial. Everything is heavily priced out of common man's reach. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Beleidsadviseur ICT Utilities Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Flexible virtualization platform lets you consolidate your servers" September 14, 2018 5.0 We have consolidated our old hardware onto new, which means we have a higher density and uptime now. Our physical desktops are also virtual now, enabling our users to work from anywhere. Since everything is integrated, administration has become less time consuming than before. Pros The software is very stable and allows us to consolidate physical servers, while making them more highly available. It can hosts virtual desktops and applications, that can be managed through a single management interface. The compatibility with applications is better than with any other virtualzation platform. Cons Upgrades need to be carefully planned, because the underlying hardware may need a firmware update as well. This means dependencies. Luckily VMware has extensive documentation and compatibility matrices that help you to find out what to update first. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Ingeniero de Implementación y Soporte Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere, a great solution for your data center." January 15, 2019 5.0 Definitely meets expectations, its functions to maintain a monitoring and server virtualization makes it labeled as first class. The administration of our cluster through vSphere greatly enhances our activities, even this solution is always at the forefront of new technologies for virtualization with each of its updates. Pros The support is very outstanding, worthy of highlighting and of first quality. Operates perfectly in our infraestructure, its great control over virtual machines achieves the goal. Easy to use and gives you many additional functions that give you reliability. Cons What conditions the use of this product is its high cost, but it is worth inventing in this powerful virtualizer. Review Source iB ibrahim B. IT System Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Vmware " September 20, 2021 5.0 I have had to work virtualization Vmware for 3 years. it's working well. I can manage all servers in one control. Pros It's a virtualization product. it's most important on the IT infra side. it's cost-effective. Cons Understanding difficult in Upgrading time and migration tome Review Source Randy H. Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMware vSphere - The Best Virtualization Platform in the Industry" April 26, 2022 5.0 vSphere allows for the ability to quickly and efficiently provide any number of virtual machines with a variety of configurations (hardware and/or software). Pros vSphere if the absolute top of the line platform for creating and managing virtual machines. It is full featured, user friendly (once learned), and rock solid. Cons Due to the abundance of features, there is a learning curb and it can take some time to take advantage of all the features offered. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very stable and scalable" February 1, 2019 5.0 This is a great platform that has allowed us to condense datacenters and quickly deploy servers and resources when needed. Pros vSphere is a great platform and allows for a highly available and agile infrastructure environment, which is what I like the most about this. Cons Licensing can be cumbersome and difficult to understand with several options for incorrect license purchases. Review Source Sonu S. Operation Manager Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMware Virtualization tool" October 18, 2019 4.0 It was a good experience, Since installation was simple and a little bit of knowledge one can setup a virtual servers easily. Pros It's light weight OS, Which is very easy to load into the server. It requires very less time to setup. Once the OS is installed it can be used to create many VM's which is very helpful to separate the servers virtually. Cons The licencing is costly. There is no support from VMware team, in order to get things sorted out it takes much time since one has to experiment there own. Reason for choosing vSphere But since it's loading time is more it's not suitable. few applications were not supported on Hyperviser interface. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Cyber Security Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Virtualization | Manage VM ware " November 21, 2018 5.0 V-sphere is a system of combined with VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Replication and vShield Endpoint. It helps to manage the VM resources, cloud computing, remote accessing, and replication and many more features. Pros VMware V-sphere helps to manage VM ware infrastructure. V-sphere has to install on the server pc on the VM. Then have to configure the V-sphere and it can access using V-sphere client from the host pc. Without using V-sphere we can directly access the VMware using the ESXI platform using the IP, but it directly access through the web browser, when we use the V-sphere can access through V-sphere client and it gives many options to manage the VM. Cons Licensing cost is very high, and need a networking knowledge to set up the V-sphere and maintained the system. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Implementation engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Server virtualization software for enterprise deployments" September 16, 2020 4.0 Vsphere in our environment has been setup for virtualizing the servers and desktops for VDI setup using CItrix xenapp and xendesktop which gives us great experience and easily scalable as per the organizational needs. Pros Vmware vsphere is a bare metal server virtualization software which is widely used by enterprises for virtualization of servers, apps and desktops. Vsphere is a top virtualization software in comparison with Microsoft Hyper-v and Citrix Xenserver and is easily scalable providing a clustered environment with high availability. VMFS is the high performance clustered file system offered by Vmware. Vsphere client is management tool using which you can manage the VM infra and is currently made available using HTML5 web client. It gives you high fault tolerance, storage vmotion and DRS for load balancing the virtual servers across the cluster and does not over load the host. Cons Its expensive, hard to be working with web client as it tend to become slow and upgrades are complex . Review Source Ryan G. Assistant Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "vSphere Management " November 29, 2019 5.0 I've been working with vSphere as a student and as a professional for the last year. At my company, we wanted to have less downtime at our office. When we did a backup using our old system, a restore from backup would take many hours. With vSphere, we can restore a backup in minutes. Pros I love how easy it is to find other VMs within the network and manage them all in one location. vSphere has given us the ability to back up our VMs from a central location and it has an easy to use interface for management. Cons I did have some issues in setting up the software initially. When things were configured and enterprise ready, it was easy for us to control all the VMs. The cost is very expensive for small businesses. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior IT Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An excellent virtualization platform " February 5, 2019 4.0 Very positive - when issues have arisen their support team has been able to help very quickly and is is vary rare that the program ever develops issues. Pros Setting up of templates/clones is extremely simple. These tasks can be completed outside of office hours by the simple act of setting up a scheduled task. Settings can be toggled in order to allow for the addition and/or removal of RAM and CPU cores whilst the server remains active, and the addition of hard drive space is invaluable. Cons It is rare that I have actually come across something that has actively caused an issue within vSphere. The closest I can come to a con about the software would be that VMWare failed to corner the hosted server audience - Azure for instance is now a far more viable solution as both the licencing and the hardware can be brought from one company - had VMWare moved into this earlier I do not believe that we would be considering moving our entire infrastructure to Azure. Review Source Scott L. Network Administrator Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMWare vSphere - Managing your Virtual Environment One Click at a Time" April 17, 2019 4.0 VMWare vSphere has improved quite a lot in the last few versions, the latest version I am on right now (7.5) the HTML5 version of the web interface works very well and while it's missing features of the slow, Flash based web interface it can do everything I need day to day and does it quickly and fairly painlessly. Pros I use this software a dozen times a day, and I think my favorite thing is that it's very easy to create snapshots and roll back to them if I break something. We have very little downtime thanks to snapshots. Cons It's very complex to update. I cringe every time a support ticket leads to me having to update the environment. It's just a complex beast, requiring several different updates/files to be installed in a specific sequence, some of which can cause down time. Review Source Chris L. IT Support Engineer Machinery Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "WHAT A DIFFERENCE" November 19, 2019 5.0 I highly recommend this for small IT organizations especially. If you do many different things it is nice to have a majority of it all being down in one spot and can be done quickly and efficiently while being able to accomplish other tasks that you may encounter. Pros To build out a new server takes only a few minutes and it very easy to maintain being a system administrator. vSphere along with the help of vCenter ties all the administrative tasks for the Data Center in one spot so i can upgrade machines or access them via web console to patch or check the activity on them while they are running. Cons The configuration takes some time to get configured and set up. That was somewhat due to the internal configurations of the physical network we were migrating into the virtual environment. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Technician Medical Practice Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good product, poor portal" August 6, 2019 4.0 I've had a 50/50 success rate with support. Sometimes they've been quite helpful and have gone out of their way to follow through. In other cases I've been given simple how-tos and an auto-closed case which leaves me replying to a 'resolved' case for a delayed response. Pros VMWare offers tons of functionality for managing host clusters and virtual machines. You can configure and make changes to servers, add resources as needed, mount drives, and monitor performance. Cons The installed client of VMWare used to be excellent. The VSphere website, however, seems to have compatibility issues and the constant time-outs can be infuriating. Review Source Jesus M. Ingeniero de Soporte Senior Government Administration Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A secure and easy to administer data center" September 3, 2018 5.0 Pros It really is a tool that helps you minimize effort and work; that goes from the FortiConvert that allows you to take a real server and pass it to the virtual system without tedious reinstallations, until its administration and use that are quite intuitive, since it has a clear user interface that facilitates all tasks Cons The costs of this very useful tool are quite high; if we compare it to other software in the same branch of services; this taking into account if you want to have all the services that comprise a virtualized datacenter and with high redundancy. Review Source Chamroeunrith C. IT Manager Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Vmware is best for Data Center" May 16, 2021 5.0 previously we use various product for hypervisor and problem alot, since 2018 we start using vmware it great and we don't waste time with repair the VM anymore. Pros what i like the most from vmware is the features of vmotion migration and cluster when one host fail no need to worry, we can put one to maintenance and repair the fail server during working hour. Cons its very good already since we using it we never have the problem at all related to the vm failures. Reason for choosing vSphere because it the best one and the best support from the local vendor, and rarely fail at all, its around 3 years already. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Tech Support Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great security features..." December 16, 2019 5.0 Overall, I think it is worth it, as far as pricing goes. It is a sturdy, robust product . Pros Excellent security features. We use this to secure all our applications at work, since it's nice to be able to run and manage across the cloud with this. Very fast , good scalability. Also, as a large company, we have tons of critical data we access every day that needs to remain secure. We need something that can handle the workload, and vSphere is wh gets it done for us. Cons I find that it's still not quite as secure as v13 was, but I am hoping they continue working on this. Review Source Josh R. IT Project Manager Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Virtual Server administration made easy" November 2, 2018 5.0 Overall using vSphere is a very positive experience. Once you learn your way around you are going to love your time with this software. Pros vSphere is a fantastic admin tool that allows you to administrate you virtual environment. The features of the tools are powerful and let you do many things from expanding disks to adding cores and RAM to your virtual machines. It is the easiest way to manage complicated Virtual infrastructures. Cons There is a steep learning curve, but once you learn your way around the steps to get things done become verify intuitive and easy to pick up on. Review Source Armando I. Network Manager Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excelente Solución para virtualizacion de Servidores" March 25, 2020 5.0 Desde que utilizamos vSphere los tiempos de desarrollo se acortaron, los backups son continuos y centralizados. La administración es customizable en sectores gracias al panel de usuarios y grupos. La mejor herramienta para Virtualizacion. Pros vSphere hoy dia es nuestro eje en nuestro data center. Nos permite desplegar servidores y administrarlos en minutos. Realizar bakups sencillos y gestionarlos. Cons En ocasiones debido a una mala configuración inicial sobre los recursos puede ser tedioso solucionar los problemas, uno de ellos es el espacio en disco para cada VM o los logs despues de cada snapshot. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer ATSS2 Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Next Level Enterprise IT" March 13, 2019 5.0 We were able to consolidate and virtualize all of our servers; vSphere takes away the daily struggles with hardware and empowers standardizing operating systems across the entire enterprise. Pros VMware vSphere is a superior virtualization platform. Using vSphere, we have been able to virtualize our infrsatructure, produce numberous Proof of Concepts with ease, and testing and deployment has never been easier. The software is very mature, easy to use and intuitive in it's design. Cons The software is expensive for enterprise features. The Hardware Compatibility List is also very limiting. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Active Director Administrator Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A necessary tool for managing your Enterprise VMWare environment easily and quickly. " March 20, 2018 4.0 Pros VMotion feature to move live VMs between physical virtual hosts is so slick. This feature brought virtualized computing to the next level of functionality and availability. High-Availability: vSphere takes the great value of the free ESXI vmware host offerings and makes them enterprise-grade with High-Availability and vMotion (seamlessly ) Web/thick client (end of life for thick client) consoles available for convenient access to manage your vmware environment. They are well-designed and polished. PowerCLI automation is fully unlocked when used with vSphere, a powerful tool for gathering information and taking care of bulk tasks. A must-have skillset for VMware technicians. Cons Pricing: It's not free, this is an enterprise solution that you must pay for, unlike ESXi virtual host software. VSphere thick client management console is end-of-life, has features and UI that I prefer over the web console. Review Source Similar Products Featured