We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and VMware Software Defined Data Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's more reliable, secure, and easy to deploy. It's much more stable as a platform."
"The solution's technical support is great since, in our company, we get answers to most of our questions, and most of our queries get resolved with the help of the documentation itself."
"Microsoft support is fast."
"I appreciate that all the tools are available natively within Azure. It's all set up nicely. It's all minor."
"Azure Stack is stable."
"It is probably the best solution out there."
"One of the features I really appreciate is the Hybrid Cloud Extension UI."
"Azure Stack integrates well with Microsoft. It's also good for transitioning from an on-premise or hybrid setup to the cloud. It's seamless."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SDDC Manager."
"The higher availability, the DRS, and its connection with NetApp are the most valuable features."
"Bare Metal Ethernet SAN "dramatically improved" performance, stability, and reliability of the VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture."
"The most valuable feature is the strong support. Also, the H-Appliance feature that supports MPLS is very important to us."
"The VMware Software Defined Data Center Manager can be used to manage VMs across multiple platforms."
"The stability of this solution is great."
"The product gives us a follow-up on the infrastructure environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the infrastructure as a service."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"There are some minor issues or bugs with it that I know are there."
"I feel that Azure Stack has so many different variables which are not very clear...In general, the initial setup phase of Azure Stack is an area with concern that needs improvement."
"If I were to mention an area that could be enhanced, it might be technical support, as there have been observations that the response time is not as fast as some of its competitors like Google."
"Our only issue with Azure Stack so far is that the networking is very closed. You need to have the extended LAN to connect the internal LAN to the Azure Stack. Any connection we have needs site-to-site VPN connectivity instead of an internal connection, so Azure Stack has room for improvement in the networking area."
"The user experience could be improved to make it more comfortable."
"I would only recommend this solution to smaller organizations like ours because I cannot really speculate what big issues that the bigger organizations will face."
"We face some challenges with database rebuilding."
"My main problem is that they are changing the interfaces frequently, and each interface is incompatible with the last one. So you have to be in constant learning mode."
"The main problem that we are facing with this solution is vSAN stability."
"The most recent web-based interface has given us some problems."
"One area where it could improve is in the user interface."
"It would be great to have compatibility with vendors like UCS."
"We have some Intel machines and some AMD machines, are we cannot mix these within the same cluster."
"We would like to have active-active replication."
"They are using vRealize Log Insight as the virtualized log platform, but this solution is not well developed and not yet ready to use for advanced optimization and troubleshooting."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 61 reviews while VMware Software Defined Data Center is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 29 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while VMware Software Defined Data Center is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Data Center writes " Stable and Scalable data solution with good customer service ". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware Software Defined Data Center is most compared with . See our Azure Stack vs. VMware Software Defined Data Center report.
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