Why developers like VMware vSphere

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 Virtualization Platform category of a tech stack.

Who uses VMware vSphere?

Companies

55 companies use VMware vSphere in their tech stacks, including CircleCI, MIT, and Ansible Development Stack.

Developers

22 developers use VMware vSphere.

VMware vSphere Integrations

Ansible, Datadog, Rancher, StackStorm, and Habitat are some of the popular tools that integrate with VMware vSphere. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with VMware vSphere.

Why developers like VMware vSphere?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use VMware vSphere

Top Reasons

Strong host isolation

Industry leader

Great VM management (HA,FT,...)

Easy to use

Great Networking

Feature rich

Running in background

Can be setup on single physical server

Free

VMware vSphere Reviews

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose VMware vSphere in their tech stack.

Poogles

4 years ago | 1 upvotes · 184 views

The Independent

VMware 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

John Houlder

at StreamJar · a year ago | 1 upvotes · 178 views

ShadowICT

VMware 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

VMware vSphere's features

Powerful Server Virtualization
Network Services
Efficient Storage
Consistent Automation
High Availability
Robust Security

VMware vSphere Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to VMware vSphere?

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.

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).

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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