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VMware vSphere
ByVMware vSphereVMware vSphere

VMware vSphere

#33in Infrastructure as a Service
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What is VMware vSphere?

vSphere is the world’s leading server virtualization platform. Run fewer servers and reduce capital and operating costs using VMware vSphere to build a cloud computing infrastructure.

VMware vSphere is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Powerful Server VirtualizationNetwork ServicesEfficient StorageConsistent AutomationHigh AvailabilityRobust Security

VMware vSphere Pros & Cons

Pros of VMware vSphere

  • ✓Strong host isolation
  • ✓Industry leader
  • ✓Great VM management (HA,FT,...)
  • ✓Easy to use
  • ✓Feature rich
  • ✓Great Networking
  • ✓Can be setup on single physical server
  • ✓Free
  • ✓Running in background

Cons of VMware vSphere

  • ✗Price

VMware vSphere Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to VMware vSphere?

VirtualBox

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Proxmox VE

Proxmox VE

It is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, and easily manages high availability clusters and disaster recovery tools with the built-in web management interface.

KVM

KVM

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).

Qemu

Qemu

When used as a machine emulator, it can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. When used as a virtualizer, it achieves near native performance by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. it supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, it can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, 64-bit POWER, S390, 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and MIPS guests.

VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion

It gives Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. It is simple enough for home users and powerful enough for IT professionals, developers and businesses.

Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop for Mac allows you to seamlessly run both Windows and MacOS applications side-by-side with speed, control and confidence.

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VMware vSphere Integrations

Stackato, Ansible, Bitnami, DCHQ, Habitat and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with VMware vSphere. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with VMware vSphere.

Stackato
Stackato
Ansible
Ansible
Bitnami
Bitnami
DCHQ
DCHQ
Habitat
Habitat
BindPlane
BindPlane
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Rancher
Rancher
VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN
Datadog
Datadog
Equinix Metal
Equinix Metal
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Platform9 Managed OpenStack

VMware vSphere Discussions

Discover why developers choose VMware vSphere. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

John Houlder
John Houlder

Feb 26, 2018

Needs adviceonVMware vSphereVMware vSphere

We use VMWare vSphere to allow us to virtualise our environment. This means that we don't have to have as many physical servers to split our infrastructure as we would otherwise. vSphere also enables us to move our virtual machines between different servers as required such as if we need to perform essential maintenance on a host while keeping to our belief of having high availability of all of our services wherever possible. VMware vSphere

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Poogles
Poogles

Feb 14, 2015

Needs adviceonVMware vSphereVMware vSphere

vSphere provides a central management interface for the entire stack. In addition to application level redundancy, VM level redundancy is offered through HA and DRS. VMware vSphere

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