The VMware approach to the SDDC delivers a unified platform that supports any application and provides flexible control. The VMware architecture for the SDDC empowers companies to run hybrid clouds and to leverage unique capabilities to deliver key outcomes that enable efficiency, agility, and security. Enterprises using VMware technology have three ways to establish an SDDC and transition at their own pace: build their own using reference architectures; use a converged infrastructure; or use a hyper-converged infrastructure for which the full SDDC is delivered already implemented on the customer's hardware of choice.
| Type | Title | Date | |
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| Category | Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) | Mar 28, 2025 | Download |
| Product | Reviews, tips, and advice from real users | Mar 28, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | VMware Software Defined Data Center vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) | Mar 28, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | VMware Software Defined Data Center vs Azure Stack | Mar 28, 2025 | Download |
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| Azure Stack | 4.0 | 45.2% | 92% | 66 interviewsAdd to research |
VMware Software Defined Data Center was previously known as VMware SDDC.
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Automation. Using features like NSX. You can automatically create new networks, simplifies the process greatly.
I think it's less user intensive to set up new bits of the network now that we are using SDDC net features.
I hadn't given that much thought. A lower price. It's a fairly polished solution, but there are some things that are a bit clunky still.
Two years.
Seems stable so far, we've been using it for a couple of years. We have had problems, but that's probably more down to the user than the products.
It scales very easily. You can just add more racks of compute and expand sideways mostly.
We have used VMware support for this solution on occasion. Some people you speak to are very helpful. Others, not so much. They give you the run around. You speak to somebody to start with, they log your ticket, then they pass the details onto somebody else and then they'll eventually call you when they're free. If you're lucky enough to get through to somebody competent, then they are brilliant, but there have been times that they have not been particularly helpful.
No. You're always creating, to try to simplify and automate things to make it less user intensive, to make changes to the network.
We've used VMware for a long time now and had quite a bit of confidence in their products so that contributed towards the reason we chose VMware.
I was involved from the start to the finish. I suppose it was complex because cause it's a different way of working to what we're used to, but now that we've migrated, we're happy with our choice.
We had some help from a solutions architect with them, but mostly it was off our own back.
We looked at some Cisco products.
Sit down and work out what you want to do before you actually try and move your move to SDDC.
