We compared VMware Tanzu Mission Control and OpenShift Container Platform based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
VMware Tanzu Mission Control and OpenShift Container Platform both offer competitive pricing, efficient setup processes, and positive customer service experiences. VMware Tanzu Mission Control is praised for its management capabilities, multi-cloud deployment, and security measures, while OpenShift Container Platform is lauded for its system integration, resource management, and application scalability. Users suggest VMware Tanzu Mission Control could improve on user interface and performance, while OpenShift Container Platform could enhance UI, system performance, resource management, and language support.
Features: VMware Tanzu Mission Control offers comprehensive management capabilities, multi-cloud deployment, resource utilization, user-friendly interface, security measures, and automation. OpenShift Container Platform focuses on integration, resource management, security, customization, and scalability of applications.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for VMware Tanzu Mission Control is minimal and straightforward, with no additional complexities. The licensing process is hassle-free and transparent, allowing flexibility for various deployment scenarios. In comparison, the setup process for OpenShift Container Platform is also straightforward and efficient. The licensing model is commended for its flexibility in meeting the needs of different users., In terms of return on investment, VMware Tanzu Mission Control has proven to be valuable for managing and controlling VMware ecosystems. Users reported improved efficiency and resource allocation. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform offers significant improvements in resource utilization, scalability, efficiency, and cost savings. It has enabled increased productivity and revenue growth through optimized operations and streamlined workflows.
Room for Improvement: VMware Tanzu Mission Control has room for improvement in terms of user interface, performance, documentation, and customization options. OpenShift Container Platform, on the other hand, could benefit from enhancements in user interface, system performance, resource management, and support for different programming languages.
Deployment and customer support: In comparing the reviews, it can be concluded that the duration to establish a new tech solution with VMware Tanzu Mission Control typically takes one week for both deployment and setup phases, while with OpenShift Container Platform, it can range from one week for both phases to three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. The context in which these terms are used must be carefully evaluated., The customer service for VMware Tanzu Mission Control has been highly praised for being excellent, top-notch, and responsive. Users appreciate the promptness and efficiency of the support team. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback, with users valuing the promptness, responsiveness, and expertise of the support staff. Overall, users express satisfaction with the customer service experience provided by both platforms.
The summary above is based on 39 interviews we conducted recently with VMware Tanzu Mission Control and OpenShift Container Platform users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."
"The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and logging functionalities."
"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."
"Red Hat's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is good. It is a lightweight operating system. You don't have to worry about the security patches on the system. You can update the entire environment with security patches, which is a nice feature."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution can be deployed in the cloud which removes the expense of a server."
"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."
"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."
"Defining security metrics has proven beneficial for customers in maintaining a safe environment."
"A feature we find valuable is that other products can also be integrated with Mission Control. This means that we can see the status of specific clusters, as well as view the monitoring application logs all from one point."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The multi-tenancy with the VCD is great."
"The most important feature of Tanzu Mission Control is its integration with the other products, especially with ESX and vSAN. This is a strong part of Tanzu Mission Control. In other solutions, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, you can find similar features, but they don't have similar integration. With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider. You have the integration with the infrastructure, virtualization of networking, and virtualization of storage. You have a natural integration, and you don't have the problem of integrating it with different products or providers. Sometimes, different companies have good integration, but it is not always guaranteed. For example, many years ago, Cisco and VMware were good partners in networking, but when VMware started to sell ESX, the relationship was broken. This is the problem that you can face when you are using solutions from two different companies."
"The most popular feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is its graphical user interface for describing network policies on the Service Mesh, which is highly integrable with other tools commonly used in supply chains such as security."
"I have multiple Kubernetes environments within my environment. TMC gives me a single pane view, which is good for managing everything."
"VMware Tanzu Mission Control has many valuable features, such as ease of use and customization."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"The UI could be more user-friendly to drive tasks more effectively through the interface."
"With the recent trend of cloud-native, fully managed serverless services, I don't see much documentation about how a customer should move from on-prem to the cloud, or what is the best way to do a lift-and-shift. Even if you are on AWS OCP, which is self-managed infra services, and you want to use the ROSA managed services, what is the best way to achieve that migration? I don't see documentation for these kinds of use cases from Red Hat."
"We encounter difficulties while accessing the environment and managing the cluster. This particular area needs improvement."
"One area for improvement is that we can't currently run Docker inside a container, as it clashes with security consents. It would be good if we could change that."
"OpenShift Container Platform could improve by having better integration."
"Whenever we onboard or deploy services that talk to Oracle Database, they take a lot of time to become active and serve the incoming request, so it would be good to see some improvement here. This could be an OpenShift issue or an internal network problem within our organization."
"My impression is that this solution is pretty expensive so I think the pricing plan could improve."
"LYNX is a managed cluster solution that takes care of specific details within a cluster, such as sequences or services. I haven't seen this feature in Tanzu Mission Control."
"The disaster recovery feature could be improved to provide better tracking of issues. I would also like to see the introduction of a dashboard view, for even further integration of all the areas that Mission Control looks at."
"Cost is always a concern. Smaller companies might find the price a bigger issue."
"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions such as HPE."
"We want to see a new feature that helps build more security architecture like Zero Trust Security or shifting left in Kubernetes."
"This product doesn't have a GUI. In order to use it properly, I need to connect it to a new GUI or build a GUI to manage it — it's pretty difficult."
"The infrastructure is quite challenging."
OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews while VMware Tanzu Mission Control is ranked 3rd in Container Management with 12 reviews. OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2, while VMware Tanzu Mission Control is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Mission Control writes "Gives a single pane to manage multiple Kubernetes environments and has competitive pricing". OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with Amazon EKS, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Rancher Labs and Kubernetes, whereas VMware Tanzu Mission Control is most compared with Rancher Labs, Kubernetes, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon EKS and Docker. See our OpenShift Container Platform vs. VMware Tanzu Mission Control report.
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