VMware ESXi Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about VMware ESXi is its stability, performance, and efficient resource utilization. It enables multiple virtual machines to run reliably on a single physical server, helping optimize infrastructure costs and simplify management. Its strong virtualization capabilities, high availability features, and seamless integration with the VMware ecosystem make it an excellent platform for enterprise workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the main drawbacks of VMware ESXi is that advanced features often require additional VMware products and licensing, which can increase overall costs. It can also have a learning curve for new administrators, and troubleshooting complex virtualization issues may require specialized expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about VMware ESXi is its rock-solid stability and highly efficient bare-metal architecture. It runs directly on the hardware with minimal overhead, allowing us to maximize CPU and memory resources across our infrastructure. Features like advanced memory overcommitment and vMotion make workload balancing seamless. The performance is incredibly consistent, and the ability to spin up new production or test environments in minutes has dramatically accelerated our deployment workflows. It is the industry standard for virtual machine isolation, security, and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The recent Broadcom acquisition and licensing shifts have made it much more expensive and difficult to manage from a budget perspective. Additionally, the Hardware Compatibility Guide is exceptionally strict, meaning older but perfectly functional hardware often gets dropped from updates. Standalone hosts without a vCenter server feel heavily restricted in native management features, and the learning curve for advanced virtual networking and storage configurations can be steep for newer team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I valued most about VMware ESXi was its stability and mature virtualization features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sharp increase in licensing costs and my disappointing experience with Broadcom support have made it much harder to justify using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its industry-leading bare-metal architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

high licensing costs, aggressive subscription changes by Broadcom, steep hardware requirements, and the paywalling of advanced features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VMWare ESXi is one of the best tools to manage your servers efficiently and effectively. This will totally reduce the investment in hardware cost. It is very easy to implement and easy to use. The package comes with a lot of features through which you can manage the servers without much effort. ESXi's flexible features allow integration with other applications such as backup, DR to ensure all customer requirements are met. Using VMWare ESXi, we can totally reduce the investment in our hardware. All the servers will be available in the same console, reducing management time and making work easier. ESXi is much faster than other platforms with a lot of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ESXi should provide some information options while registering a new VM. For example, while adding a disk, there are thin and thick options available. A new user should know the difference between these two options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to use solution for VMs virtualization

- Complete virtualization on Standalone node

- vSPhere integration capability

- Easy to implement and Manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Not Clonning Features on Standalone mode

- Limited on Standalone mode, No HA, vMotion, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stability and reliability

Excellent ecosystem (vCenter, vSAN, integrations) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Features like DRS, vMotion, Fault Tolerance, HA are tightly locked behind license tiers

If the wrong license is applied, features break or generate errors (for example, FT or DRS mismatches when changing licenses) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ESXi is a great virtualization platform. It's stable, compatible with a wide range of hardware, and easy to manage. I've been using it since version 3/3.5 and have watched it grow. Even the 'free' version can help you do a lot. Once you add on VCenter and upgrade your license it's a whole new world of reliability and functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Broadcom is quickly killing VMWare ESXi. The costs for renewals are ridiculous. The features in the newer versions are geared towards much larger customers, so you end up paying the renewal to stay on the platform, but you aren't getting a lot of new and innovative changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Stability

- Feature

- Enterprise Environment

- Easy to Use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Price of the solution

- Knowledge Curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VMWare ESXi is the best and preferred IT industry virtualization platform. It has a lot of features and can be expanded to meet the needs of even the most demanding enterprise. It is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not an easy platform to implement and maintain. Unfortunately, ever since VMWare was purchased by Broadcom the future of the product line and the platform as well as its different product versions has been unstable. At the time of this review, its customer support is not the greatest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.