--- description: Learn more about vSphere price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Australia. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: vSphere Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Virtualisation Software](/directory/30618/virtualization/software) > [vSphere](/software/93512/vmware-horizon) # vSphere Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/93512/vmware-horizon Page: 1 / 19\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/93512/vmware-horizon?page=2) > Cloud-based virtualization platform which helps enterprises with data consolidation, infrastructure security and remote support. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 433 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses vSphere? Cloud-based data virtualization platform that helps manage and install virtual machines through hypervisor. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 433 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: VMware - **Founded**: 1989 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 576.96 - **Pricing model**: Per User - **Pricing Details**: Please contact VMware directly for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Bandwidth Monitoring - Configuration Management - Dashboard - Data Migration - Dedicated Virtual Resources - High Volume Processing - Load Balancing Tools - ML Algorithm Library - Model Training - Monitoring - Performance Management - Server Monitoring - Virtual Machine Monitoring ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Virtualisation Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30618/virtualization/software) ## Related Categories - [Virtualisation Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30618/virtualization/software) - [Machine Learning Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31103/machine-learning/software) - [Big Data Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30851/big-data/software) - [Network Monitoring Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30019/network-monitoring/software) - [Virtual Private Servers](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/33275/virtual-private-server/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/219781/ec2) — 4.7/5 (173 reviews) ## Reviews ### "vSphere client" — 5.0/5 > **Pyae** | *12 April 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Most of pros, this vSphere when we use it. its ability to manage a large number of virtual machines (VMs) from a single interface, simplifying operations, security and central control management. > > **Cons**: Yes, licensing cost, especially for smaller businesses and complex network setup need to professional. > > VMware vSphere is a popular virtualization platform with several advantages and some drawbacks. ----- ### "Tool to manage and control several VMs in an environment easily" — 4.0/5 > **Rakesh** | *27 November 2024* | Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: vSphere servers the purpose of managing and controlling multiple VMs in an environment setup. > > **Cons**: The layout can be more user friendly in terms of size and options to expand/collapse. > > Gives a quick look of current deployed VMs and state. Also view the resource allocation and usage. ----- ### "Perfect for hosting private clouds on-prem" — 5.0/5 > **James** | *20 July 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The web UI makes it very easy to manage ESXi hosts and their configuration, as well as individual VM configuration. It is simple to setup an HA toplogy with numerous VMs running on a cluster of ESXi (hypervisor) hosts. DRS makes it simple to automatically migrate VMs between hosts in a cluster. > > **Cons**: The licencing of features is complex, and base level licences preclude feature such as storage vMotion and DRS. This should be part of the base offering. The vSphere API is a bit clunky and the SDKs available in python are quire fragmented. No infrastructure as code offerings are made as all configuration is generally done manually by clicking the mouse, or via manual CLI commands. > > Largley positive, but when there is an incident affecting the entire cluster, you can expect to have a bad day. For example if there are locking issues within the cluster against a fibre-channel storage array, you may need to reboot the entire cluster resulting in an outage of 100% of all infrastructure on the platform. ----- ### "Reliable Virtualization Software: vSphere" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *26 December 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: vSphere is a virtualization software which is well for its reliability. The most important feature that I love most about this service is that it allows multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server, ensuring hardware resources are fully utilized also it include features like Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) automatically allocate resources based on workload demands. > > **Cons**: I don't face any big issue on using vSphere but I fell it's expensive licensing and subscription costs as well as UI portion can be improved more > > I love using vSphere because vSphere is widely regarded as one of the most robust and feature-rich virtualization platforms on the market. It excels in creating and managing virtualized environments, offering high performance, scalability, and reliability so my overall experience is 8.5 out of 10. ----- ### "The Gold Standard; - At least until clients are completely priced out" — 3.0/5 > **Connor** | *15 April 2026* | Media Production | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: A solid industry standard platform that provides reliable virtualisation at scale. As the industry leader it excels at consolidating workloads, VM availability and providing excellent host and VM control for live/production environments. Features like vMotion, HA and DRS and critical and non-negotiable for maintaining resources without disruption and providing a seemless experience for end users and hosted applications. keeping downtime minimal and providing reliable infrastructure management and uptime helps VMWare and Vsphere sit comfortably at the head of the table, especially when discussing on-premise (non cloud) virtualisation options. > > **Cons**: The biggest issue with Vsphere, by far, is the remodelling of their pricing and licensing structure. Since Broadcom purchased the vendor, they have narrowed their desired client-base to a fraction of their existing market, meaning that many small and medium enterprises are left in a very difficult situation, having to choose between switching to less mature technologies, or choosing to maintain their current stack at significantly hiked price margins. The recent shift away from perpetual licensing and towards core-based subscriptions has created a much more volatile and inflexible cost case for the vast majority of customers, and the constant restructuring of varying editions and packages makes it much more confusing when navigating renewals and the associated uncertainties. > > Vsphere overall remains in my opinion the industry leader in enterprise virtualisation, and absolutely still sets the standard that others are mesaured against. Weighed heavily against that though is the crushing price model that have forced the majority of smaller and medium sized businesses (and even some larger enterprise corporations) into choosing less mature solutions and competitors; so much so that it almost completely removes Vsphere and it's associated suite from the runnings, if not immediately then at least long enough for administrators to figure out a plan to migrate away. As a result these competitors are receiving more funding and seem to be catching up much faster than previous years (Hyper-V, Nutanix, Openshift, etc) ----- Page: 1 / 19\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/93512/vmware-horizon?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/93512/vmware-horizon) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ko | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data