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Gerson
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Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
January 2018
Control Control Control
Built on VMware technology. Built-in, out-of-the-box compliance toolkits developed by VMware's Center.
Pros
vCenter Configuration Manager was born, raised and integrated with vSphere. For that reason delivers impressive capabilities that support hardening the VMware Infrastructure. The family of products that vCenter Configuration Manager support are VMware ESX, ESXi, vCenter, vCloud Director and VMware vCloud Networking and Security. Patchin VM templates and offline VMs is also possible using this product. vCenter Configuration Manager supports configuration management across virtual and physical servers and more.. across VMware Infrastructure and across multiple OS including Windows, Linux and Windows.
Cons
nothing bad, if you want the best compatibility with VMware products, this is it. There are other HyperVisor platforms out there, however, this software is native for VMWare, that counts.
Michael
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
March 2018
Excellent Configuration Tools, with standard VMWare Quality!
Total control over my vSphere Server. Easy to use, excellent support, no complaints about any vmware product.
Pros
vCenter Configuration Manager is, like all VMWare products, very user friendly. Gives you superb control over vSphere. In short just an excellent product.
Cons
I can't really say very many bad things about VMware products except that because the products are made to be almost out of the box ready to use, you might need to do some investigating if a particular feature does not work, but if that is the case it is almost always a simple fix or easy to change setting.
Peter
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Information Services
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
February 2019
Powerful and easy to use
Pros
Very useful for managing large numbers of virtual machines on multiple ESXI hosts. Vcenter is surprisingly easy to use for such a powerful piece of software, it's interface is well designed and user friendly.
Cons
The only small con I have found is that the documentation available online is sometimes slightly lacking in some specific areas, but it's mostly good
Blake
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
July 2018
Used in home lab and enterprise environment.
Pros
Using this as the central management for my Vsphere host and the clustering and migration tools work incredibly well.
Cons
Once and a while the web gui can hang up and be slow. And with the new reals of 6.7 they have changed a lot os srtting around so it's a big change to re lean all of it
Anonymous
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
October 2018
VMWare experience in my company
in general terms it is a very useful tool to virtualize most of the services we use in our company.
Pros
what I liked most about VMWare is the ease when it comes to managing and creating virtual machines
Cons
What I like the least is the slowness in some processes and the consumption of resources.

Andrea
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Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
February 2018
A really easy and professionals tool for manage for parts of a virtual environment.
Pros
Easy manage of physical and virtual environment; you can move virtual machine easily from a physical host to another and will be easy lan maintenance because VmWare update will advise about type of update, if will need reboot of Vm of host ...
Cons
I think that is really complete, what could be great is have a monitoring tool internally, a tool like Nagios for example.
Richard
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Paper & Forest Products
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
November 2018
It just works!!
Pros
VMware has always just worked for our business with no issues.
Cons
Really can't think of any cons at this time.

Marc
Verified reviewer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
July 2019
VMware integrated network monitoring
Pros
Works well with vSphere, helps with monitor all vSphere related items.
Cons
Setup complexity and cost, there are some cheaper/easier products out there.
Alejandro
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered
October 2021
Necesarry if you need to built a cloud
We are satisficed because with vRA we could implement an excellent private cloud in the company and we reduced the times that before take to setup a server and be more agile at the demand of the business
Pros
Ones you have ready the templates and the designs of the workflow help you a lot to be more efference and respond quit to the demand of the business or the internal customers. Other pro, is that you can find a lot information in the VMware website or in other websites to get refence of how do templates or compare best practices
Cons
In the beginning is complicate design the workflows specially with the interactions in the workflow so the best is design well with the help of the VMware engineers and pay for some hours to help you in the implementations
Anonymous
Company size: 11-50 employees
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
October 2018
Secure configurations with vCenter Configuration Manager
This tool has given me added value to my experience as a professional within the company, it has been possible to improve the execution of virtualization that allows me to centrally manage multiple servers and virtual machines.
Pros
It stores the configuration data configurations of different systems, security and assets of each one independently, besides this it creates a centralized database of information, in this way you can optimize the processes in the company.
Cons
The maximum number of vCenter servers that can interconnect with each other.
Anonymous
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2018
Easily Allowed Me To Setup Configurations for Multiple Systems Simultaneously
Pros
Easy to use. vCenter Config Manager allows you to easily create configuration profiles for deployments of virtual machines. Due to its simplicity it allows me to create multiple machines quickly without the need to touch each machine individually to configure.
Cons
At first glance it can be kind of intimidating; you may have to reference some KB articles depending on the type machines that you are wanting to eventually deploy.
Rebecca
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2018
A great tool
I do not have anything bad to say about it. It is, in my opinion, the best compatibility you can find for VMware products. Overall I haven't had any poor experiences.
Pros
This gives you the ability to easily configure and move your virtual machines. It has a nice interface and it's not overly complicated.
Chris
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Media Production
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
February 2020
Bring insight to your infrastructure
Having one view into our infrstructure was very important.
Pros
I love the fact that I can now see the data about each and every one of the pieces of compute that I am in charge of, add to the fact that SaltStack is an event engine, and this product is a powerful tool for successful automation
Cons
It's a bit complicated to get set up, but that was easily overcome.
Anthony
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
May 2017
Awesome product
Drastically reduces time to deploy.
Pros
Super easy to use and integrates seemlessly into existing infrastructure. Cuts time for configuration drastically.
