VMware Cloud Foundation is highly valued for its automation, disaster recovery, and GUI simplicity. Users appreciate its capabilities for auto-scaling, clustering, and ease of deployment. The platform excels in seamless management of virtualization, network, and storage from a single console. Password and certificate management, along with a self-service portal, enhance user experience. Integration with public cloud environments and fast transition capability boosts efficiency and flexibility in managing private cloud infrastructures.
- "Overall, I rate VMware Cloud Foundation a nine out of ten."
- "VMware Cloud Foundation allows for extensive customization, aligning with our customer requirements."
- "A valuable feature of VMware Cloud Foundation is its ability to manage everything from a single console, including network, virtualization, and storage management."
VMware Cloud Foundation requires better integration with systems like Azure, enhancements to SDDC Manager, synchronous site writing, improved upgrade processes, and life cycle management. Pricing and licensing complexities, security, API connections, and documentation should be addressed. Support for component integration, resource allocation, and flexibility in multi-site management need improvement. Compatibility with Mac, ease of deployment, log management, troubleshooting, and competitive pricing are also desired by users.
- "VMware Cloud Foundation is complex, and there are always updates regarding security features, accessibility, and the user interface. Making changes isn't simple because there are a lot of tables to update. People in the field may not feel confident about managing it."
- "The maintenance cost has increased significantly, especially after Broadcom acquired VMware, with a shift from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing."
- "If one component fails to operate in a timely manner, the entire infrastructure can go down because everything is interconnected. This is the biggest issue."