# Page 7 | vSphere Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 7 - 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 7 - Reviews of vSphere ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 151-175 of 431 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer CEO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere paved the way to success" September 16, 2019 4.0 vSphere has enabled us to scale exponentially without a similarly large capital outlay. It has proven to be reliable and consistent. Pros vSphere has robustness with simple ease of use and equally easy deployment with great support and documentation. Cons vSphere tends to have slower i/o and data transfer with often heft price tags. Reason for choosing vSphere Cost and simplicity of deployment. Review Source Domenik H. IT Administrator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Complex and powerful software" April 12, 2019 4.0 Pros vSphere is a powerful tool to manage your virtual machines on a VCenter environment. It has tons of features if you know how to use them. Cons Due to its complexity it needs a lot of learning to use it. Sadly the locally installed client is no longer available and you have to use the web application which is still missing features. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer User Services Administrator Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simple, Efficient Virtualizing" November 2, 2018 5.0 Pros VMware takes the complexity out of virtualization and give users a powerful, easy to use interface to manage everything in one place. Cons While even the free version of VMware vSphere is a powerful tool, once you start getting into multiple hosts for virtualizing, you will be limited in your abilities until you buy a license. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System Administrator Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good management tool for VMs" December 15, 2017 5.0 Pros Much functionality at one place. Often used things are easy to access, but also more advanced functions are available via vSphere, so no need to use console for most of advanced configurations. Cons No backward compatibility. To manage multiple versions of vmware farms, I have to have multiple vSphere clients installed. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System Engineer Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Upgrade vSphere Environment" May 14, 2019 5.0 VMware is top brand in virtualization. I'm working with it from 10 years and my feedback is wonderfull. In last week I upgrade my environment from vSphere 6.0 to vSphere 6.7. No issue, no problem. Everything went good. Pros I like VMware because is the most stable suite for virtual environment. Cons VMware vSphere can support you in reduce time to maintain IT Infrastructure. Review Source David P. Senior Field Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Industry leading virtualisation solution" February 6, 2019 5.0 Pros Newer versions have a much improved interface and the release of new features has got better. This is powerful virtualisation software that scales well across organisations of most any size. Cons For smaller customers it may not represent the best value. It also requires some training and knowledge to implement. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An invaluable tool for managing your server environment " September 18, 2018 5.0 Overall vSphere is a great product to make your server environment efficient. The competition does not compare to the ease of use and features that vSphere has to offer. Pros vSphere allows me to visualize my servers and save on hardware and energy costs. Cons I can't find any real cons with vSphere. It works well and when I have problems support is great. Review Source AS Arpan S. Technical Support Consultant Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere makes managing virtual infrastructure so easy!" July 30, 2018 5.0 Pros \- Simple and easy to use interface - Very powerful. Comes equipped with tons of features - Entire virtual infrastructure ranging from configuring and deploying VMs can be done quickly (depending on the skill level) within minutes. - New HTML5 interface can be used to manage VMs from cell phones. Cons \- Contains so many features that it can be quite intimating even for an inexperienced professional to keep up with the latest releases. VMWare does provides ample of KBs and forums to address this, but many a times, answer is not readily available or it is very difficult to find from docs. This process can be very confusing. - Very expensive - Licensing model can be hard to understand. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Security Engineer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "It is the most talented platform for virtualization environments." May 19, 2019 5.0 It is the most widely used virtualization platform in the world. We use this product in our own institution. Failover Cluster license is available. We are also replicating to the other DRC environment. Virtualization solution in terms of flexibility, redundancy, integration compatibility, quality management and performance in terms of features that make admin happy. Pros The most widely used virtualization platform. Therefore, it is the virtualization platform with the most integration support. The fact that we can successfully integrate all other products is very satisfying. Cons Installation of the product and user experience in the administrative sense is more difficult than other platforms. It would be better to facilitate this sense. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System Analyst/Programmer Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMWare vSphere Review" January 22, 2019 4.0 Overall experience has been great. Able to create, pause, delete, and keep an eye on servers. Easy to manage any problems, check storage, and make sure the servers are running without a problem. Pros Able to keep an eye on all Servers and VM Stations with ease of use and no problems. Cons VMWare vSphere could use a GUI update and make it more user friendly. Review Source AK Austin K. Help Desk Technician Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A Great Option for Managing Your VMs" December 19, 2018 5.0 I've been using VMware Vsphere for over 6 months and before that I didn't have a lot of exposure to Virtualization. It's a really great and necessary feature for any partially IT-based company these days and Vsphere manages to make it simple enough for most users while providing enough features to make it a worthwhile venture to invest in. Vsphere is a great tool for beginners and advanced users alike. I've set up and managed multiple VMs by now and have used multiple platforms to do it (the only other comparable option being Oracle's VirtualBox), and by far Vsphere would be my go to platform. It allows for an easy interface to manage your VMs resources, allows for taking VM snapshots (in case you kerflunkle your VM), allows you to directly interface with the VM through a console, and so much more. When the licensing police come knocking, though, it's a bit of a task to gather all of the required documentation for their audit, so be ready for that. Other than that Vsphere is a great option if you're looking to use a virtualization platform. Pros Easy to use, supports multiple VMs, able to manage VM resources easily Cons Licensing can be a bit tricky, although it's not much of a problem if your needs don't change a whole lot. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "virtual infrastructure" February 18, 2019 5.0 Pros Currently running esxi as a hypervisor. and manage the host via vpshere and let me tell you that managing these host couldn't be easier specially when upgrading, downgrading the VMs Cons in order for you to centrally manage all ur hosts, you will need Vcenter which is additional but totally worth it. Review Source ZK Zach K. Director Computer Networking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best in class enterprise virtualization software" June 11, 2020 4.0 If you want the best VM software and you have the budget, choose vSphere. Pros The best reason to choose VMware is for its industry leading performance and stability. There are workloads that have been running for decades on VMware. This is the most performant, stable, and secure virtualization software on the market. The management software has come a long ways, with vCenter and vRealize suites becoming much more useable. We also leverage the GPU slicing feature which is unique to VMware due to the Nvidia partnership. Support is also top-notch with high response SLA. Cons The biggest con is cost, VMware simply costs A LOT. They tend to throw everything (compute, storage, networking, management) in a large bundle with an enormous per-CPU cost. If you have a constrained budget, it will be a challenge to make everything fit. Also the vendor lock-in is very strong. Even though you can move VMware workloads to public cloud, they are still running on VMware infrastructure in the public cloud datacenter. So workloads aren't really portable. Review Source Sergio A. Project Manager Industrial Automation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best virtual machine tools" June 1, 2018 5.0 Complete set of tools for virtualization Pros Useful tool for server and virtual machines administration. Allow virtualization of the most used OS. Complete set of virtualization tools. Cons I just find one cons of this software, the price. Is a very expensive product, one of the more expensive in the market. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Consultor Senior en Telecomunicaciones Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Is the Best Hypervisor in the Market!" May 3, 2018 5.0 IT Hardware Efficiency Pros Really its the most robust software in my experience, in 10 year using and adminstrating this product am opened few support cases with few crashes. Cons The support can be better, the time for the first response sometimes is slow, and the election support in locale languaje. Review Source IB Ian B. Prevent Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Virtualization" January 29, 2024 4.0 It has been a great and reliable experience using vSphere Vmware. Pros It is easy to setup and maintain virtual machines with vSphere. Cons It has hardware failures that need to be addressed to keep hosts running. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CIO Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere" December 3, 2021 4.0 Pros Easy to use and integrates well with vCenter. Cons It comes with heavy cost burdens and those add up Review Source Ali Y. Service Manager Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "it is the best virtulization platform" April 15, 2019 5.0 Our most virtual servers on it, and we can use about 50 virtual servers with a physical server. Pros Stable and easy to use. Also, I like mostly host or Storage vmotion without interruption Cons ESXi hosts mostly stable but sometimes it can get pink screen like Windows blue screen. And rarely we can't find root cause. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Backbone Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Makes Virtualization easy " March 1, 2020 4.0 I am using this from last few years, Its a good virtualization tool but a bit pricey. Pros 1 -Easy virtual machine Management. 2 -Its user friendly. 3 -Easy to access to from any external network. Cons 1 -Sometime it acts slow. 2 -Expensive to get all the required function. 3 -Not much training material available. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Cloud Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Best On Premise virtualisation platform" September 30, 2019 5.0 An awesome platform to host all our internal servers. Pros This is by far the best on Premise host Virtualisation software on the market. Cons The licensing cost is rather high, apart from that the latest version seems very stable. Reason for choosing vSphere This is by far the best on-premise host virtualisation software !! Review Source Chris L. Sr. UNIX Systems Admin Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "We are an exclusive VMware vSphere shop running about 10,000 VMs" March 7, 2018 4.0 Pros vSphere is the industry gold standard. Fast, reliable, bulletproof software Easy to administer with both standard UNIX tools and API scripting integrations. Cons High license cost. Competition is catching up to feature parity. Error logging format is terrible and hard to parse. Review Source AR Angelo R. Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vsphere - Un prodotto eccezzionale" March 30, 2023 5.0 Pros Facile installazione, configurazione e gestione Cons Nulla, รจ davvero un software completo e fondamentale per la virtualizzazione Review Source BM Brandon M. System Administrator Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The defacto standard for a virtualization platform. All other virtualization solutions look to it." April 2, 2018 5.0 We trust this platform to run 97% of our servers. Pros VMWare's vSphere platform is very mature, and supports ties to all aspects of the computing landscape. VMWare continuously innovates with new features and functionalities. This is the most stable and well supported route for on premise hosting. Cons Tier 1 support is terrible. I've had two support cases where my first contact didn't even know what the product was (vCenter Server Support Assistant) Suffer through till higher tiers and they will fix your issue, but if it isn't down expect it to take a minimum of days. Cost for addons such as NSX, SRM, vSAN can be very steep. Licensing can easily outcost your hardware. Review Source JM Jeffrey M. Software Security Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Virtualized environments in a click of a button" September 22, 2018 5.0 Pros Although the company i work for has moved away from using vmware, I will review as part of vSphere as i still use personal version for my VMs. vSphere has two amazing uses namely,spinning up duplicate test environments for students writing on site tests with monitoring. vSphere is also amazing for test environments for our applications to be deployed to before releasing via build servers to a production environment. Software uses minimal memory apart from values set per environment on each PC. load and performance testing seems to kill environments though. Cons If not configured correctly, virtual environments created may hang for a long time . Needs fine-tuning before any deployment to be used for tests to replicate live environments. This takes a lot of resource time . Have sometimes found that Windows hypervisor sometimes requires re-enablement after multiple restarts without starting up vSphere suite. This was found to happen if hypervisor was started during the install process. Review Source Vipin G. Co-founder Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMware vSphere for Virtual Server deployment" October 18, 2021 5.0 Our overall experience with VMware vSphere is good. We have configured & deployed our secure applications over it & managing it with nodes points. Pros We are using VMware vSphere for virtual server deployment & secure application deployment. We have configured network nodes & hosts according to our infrastructure requirements & also managing it with esxi hosts. It also provides us real-time monitoring solution with secure patch updates & advance configuration of servers. VMware vSphere is also provides database management & resource pool management. Cons We are using VMware vSphere from last few years & the only issue we found with it during the Virtual machine migration services. Review Source Similar Products Featured