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VMware Cloud Foundation pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
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PROS

VMware Cloud Foundation enables flexibility in network structures and allows extensive customization while aligning with customer requirements.
It automates many manual processes, aiding in the creation of a new environment and enhancing infrastructure automation capabilities.
The availability of a single console for managing network, virtualization, and storage aspects is highly valued.
Its disaster recovery software and host-level redundancy are crucial features, meeting industry standard protocols and requirements.
VMware Cloud Foundation stands out for its security purposes, advanced capabilities, and superior performance levels.

CONS

VMware Cloud Foundation is criticized for its limited Mac support and complex deployment process, which involves too many steps.
Cloud and integration use require improvement, including enhanced security and easier API connections.
Price concerns are prevalent, with VMware Cloud Foundation considered overpriced, creating challenges in convincing clients, especially after the Broadcom acquisition.
Resource allocation, log management, and customer service are areas where improvements are needed, as well as auto resource allocation at the VM levels.
Troubleshooting and migration capabilities, particularly from non-VMware environments, demand enhancement to prevent infrastructure issues from interconnected components.
 

VMware Cloud Foundation Pros review quotes

NiteshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 28, 2024
VMware Cloud Foundation provides us with the vSphere dashboard through which we can manage, monitor, schedule, and spin up your virtual machines. We can manage, monitor, and get reports of your infrastructure.
Narasimha Reddy Illuri - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 4, 2025
VMware Cloud Foundation's best features include its advanced capabilities, security purposes, and performance levels.
JF
Jul 1, 2024
The main features are the separation between the management plane and the workload. You can use NSX to provision between the different areas of the network, like west-east or north-south.
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SK
Apr 11, 2022
VMware Cloud Foundation's most valuable features are password and certificate management. The SDDC manager tool is the front tool we are using to manage the entire VCF stack. In the SDDC manager, we can able to rotate, and update the passwords of all users. Anything in the VMware portfolio, we can manage from a single dashboard and we have various data centers. We have connected everything into one Federation. From one single place, we are managing our entire virtual interactions.
Al Vasek - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 28, 2022
The stability is good.
reviewer1144278 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 6, 2023
We are using it for infrastructure automation.
MI
Oct 17, 2025
The automation capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation demonstrate excellent performance because of the private cloud automation, where you can develop things and manage the software into the data section, which is the SDDC.
SA
Oct 24, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is the disaster recovery software.
Ololade Olotu - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 5, 2022
Technical support is helpful.
MS
Jan 30, 2020
The ability to auto-scale is the most valuable feature.
 

VMware Cloud Foundation Cons review quotes

NiteshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 28, 2024
Cost is a challenge when convincing clients, especially for large deals.
Narasimha Reddy Illuri - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 4, 2025
Compared to Nutanix, which many people consider a better option due to its single platform approach, VMware Cloud Foundation operates on different platforms.
JF
Jul 1, 2024
There is room for improvement in customer service and support.
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SK
Apr 11, 2022
In the early adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation, we have seen minor problems. For example, in our Federation, I see the single pane of glass where we need to manage everything, which is good. However, internally, we have a Kafka database that is distributed by the database used by the SDDC manager. During the distribution and synchronization, there is some issue and we need to stop the process.
Al Vasek - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 28, 2022
The solution is quite expensive.
reviewer1144278 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 6, 2023
From a stability perspective, there may be some issues.
MI
Oct 17, 2025
An improvement needed is an upgrade to make it more scalable and automated, so that it can be easier to navigate within the cloud and the Kubernetes and vSphere, enabling VMware Cloud Foundation to deliver a more scalable hybrid cloud and manage the lifecycle between the management and Kubernetes section.
SA
Oct 24, 2019
We would like the ability to write to both sites at the same time, in a synchronous fashion.
Ololade Olotu - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 5, 2022
The pricing could be a bit less expensive.
MS
Jan 30, 2020
The deployment is clumsy and complex. There are too many things that need to be done in order to deploy.