VMware Cloud Foundation Reviews

Our clients use the solution as their hybrid cloud infrastructure. 

The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features.

The customization has room for improvement.

The price has room for improvement.

I am currently using the solution.

I give the stability a seven out of ten.

I give the scalability a seven out of ten.

I give the initial setup an eight out of ten. The deployment took seven months to complete.

I give the price a three out of ten.

I give the solution an eight out of ten. We can easily deploy the solution into a small environment and keep it under our control.

The solution is suitable for small, medium, and large organizations.

I strongly recommend the solution to others.

My client uses the product to get different tenants in the environment. 

VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to set up new environments. You get hosts in a pool, which you can build into a new cluster. 

The tool's price tag is high. 

I have been using the product for seven years. 

I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten. 

I rate the tool's scalability a ten out of ten. 

VMware Cloud Foundation's tech support is amazing. 

Positive

I rate VMware Cloud Foundation deployment a seven out of ten. 

You get what you pay for. 

I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten. 

We have enterprise customers for the product. I rate it an eight out of ten. 

We are a system integrator and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our clients.

The primary use of this solution is data center consolidation.

This solution gives you the option to have a second copy of your data center for disaster recovery. For VMware, you can achieve asynchronous replication, which means that you have active and passive replication between two sites. Active means that the production is up, but the disaster recovery is read-only. When you bring up the mirror, the other site becomes active and the production site becomes read-only.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the disaster recovery software.

The GUI makes this solution very easy to use.

We would like the ability to write to both sites at the same time, in a synchronous fashion.

This solution is very, very stable.

The scalability depends on your licensing.

The technical support for this solution used to be excellent. When you had a problem they would look at it and send you an action plan. The plan included steps on how to repair the problem, and the same information is available if you were to encounter the same problem again in the future. You didn't have to log a new support ticket. Right now, they no longer follow this procedure. Now, the first thing they do is look at your SLA to see if it covers the problem. Next, you are left to whoever might be able to help you.

They do have a good knowledge base that includes a lot of problems and issues that have been resolved. There are steps that lead you through to resolution. You start by typing the error that you are getting, and then you will either get answers you need, or it will point you to something that gives you an idea of how to solve the problem. It doesn't always happen if you are running a beta version since it is still in the test phase.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward for me, although I have been using it for many years. If one of our customers is not tech-savvy then we don't expect them to handle the deployment on their own.

If you have had VMware training, I believe you should be able to perform the deployment. Normally, if a customer purchases a new IT infrastructure, we expect that they will go for training in order to support it.

It is always a good idea to go for training. I would not recommend this solution for somebody who has no idea at all. It is simple, but not so simple that you can't do it without training.

Over time, VMware has improved a lot in terms of the interface and it's getting easier to use with a cleaner dashboard.

One of the biggest things that I have learned from using this solution is how much I appreciate the GUI. I come from a background where I used the command line often. When I started using this solution, I loved the GUI. It is excellent to use and to troubleshoot.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

We use it to deploy different customers on to a single platform. We manage the hardware from the top foundation. We look at the logs and we position the networks. 

In release 4.0 they have features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center. 

They should let other companies have their management platform. They have their SDDC manager now and other companies that have other products that do the same thing but they should let it connect. 

I would like to be able to connect the APIs. 

I have been using VMware Cloud Foundation for five years. 

It has good stability. 

The scalability is good. 

We have used support for other solutions and they're good. 

The setup complexity will depend on who you are. I think it's pretty easy. It has a spreadsheet. It's fairly easy. Others might think the opposite. Someone who is familiar with VMware would say it's easy. 

The deployment takes around a few days but it depends on the complexity of the setup. We can have the basics up in one day but to have it working will take a few days. 

It takes three employees to manage it. 

I would definitely advise looking at the hardware first and deciding whether you'd prefer performance or storing data. I would use different setups for different VMs. For the network, do your math before you set it up. 

It's complete right now. The new release has just been released. If the container orchestrator isn't there, I would like to see that in the next release. 

I would rate it a ten out of ten. 

We are using VMware Cloud Foundation for many types of workloads, such as automation, VDI, general-purpose workloads, and databases.

The most valuable features in VMware Cloud Foundation are life cycle management and ease of use.

VMware Cloud Foundation could be more flexible in terms of supporting other integration and components.

I have been working with VMware Cloud Foundation for approximately three years.

VMware Cloud Foundation is a stable solution.

The scalability of VMware Cloud Foundation is good.

I would rate the support from VMware Cloud Foundation a four out of five.

The amount of people needed to do the implementation of VMware Cloud Foundation depends on the scale. It could be one or it could be ten. However, usually very few people are needed, such as one to three VMware specialists or System administrators.

The pricing of VMware Cloud Foundation could improve, it is expensive.

My advice to others is to do a proper design prior to the deployment and proper sizing.

I rate VMware Cloud Foundation an eight out of ten.

We use the product for servicing infrastructure and as a platform for various databases.

We are able to use the product to create virtual machines. We can automate everything. We automate implementation. When a customer has their own self-service portal, they can edit their services to do whatever they want. It is a really awesome and flexible feature.

This product can be improved by allowing better integration with other systems. Better integration with systems and even as common as something like Oracle or IBM virtualization platforms. I think the integration potential is very weak with other systems. We need better integration for most products and most importantly on the cloud. Centralized management for everything will make this a much better product.

I would estimate that the product is about 80% stable. It could be much better in this department.

I think only virtualization is easy to scale up. You need to add hardware for physical scalability. We have about 10 administrators and 300 normal users. Scalability has been ok so far, but we may meet some limitations.

I have had interaction with technical support and they are okay. So far they have been able to address my issues and do not take a long time to do so.

The first time I installed it, it was complex. But after that, it became easy for me. The level of difficulty depends on your experience.

I did not require assistance from a vendor or other resources. I did the implementation by myself, and now I do it for customers as well.

For enterprise companies and huge data centers, you need a new cloud for each system. It's not acceptable so we try to work with everything centralized on-premises.

Telecommunication companies must have a cloud solution and on-premises. For everyday work, they will want to implement virtual machines. To maintain all those systems they need to have centralized management. A huge company must have these products. But it will be very costly for a small company or medium enterprise company.

The complexity depends on the size of the company. You need to enhance the workflows. Some things are difficult to incorporate as a new workflow. It is difficult but the end result is good. So, I recommend enhancing workflows first. 

On a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate VMware Cloud Foundation as a seven.

We use the solution for automated deployment and infrastructure maintenance features.

The solution's most valuable feature is automatic configuration and password management.

They should integrate the solution with Azure VMware Solution within the SDDC manager.

I have been using the solution for three and a half years.

The solution is very stable. It releases updates at regular intervals. Our customers are still running the VCF environment we deployed three years ago. 

The solution is scalable. We can deploy it to any architecture size.

We contacted the solution's technical support team when we encountered errors while deploying one of its versions. Their services are good, but sometimes the ticket takes time to process.

Positive

The solution's deployment generally takes several months because of design discussions. It requires one data engineer, one networking engineer, and a few executives from the vendor's technical support team to execute the process. Also, from an operational perspective, it requires two to three executives to maintain it.

I advise others not to keep a limited design approach toward the solution. They shouldn't just deploy it to manage Microsoft virtualization alone. It supports various solutions, including NXP, for automatic functioning.

I rate it a nine out of ten.

VMware Cloud Foundation can be used to make private clouds faster than the traditional way. Additionally, it can be used for continuity. If you want to run with Tanzu, you can build a full-stack environment of VMware, such as vSphere, or NSX.

You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge.

The solution could improve by being more secure.

I have been using VMware Cloud Foundation for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

VMware Cloud Foundation is scalable.

In Egypt, we have four customers.

The technical support could improve by being faster.

The installation is straightforward and takes approximately four hours.

Our team did the implementation of the solution. We have a team of two that does the process. You need one person to compute the nodes and one from the network team to set up the networks.

There is an annual license required to use the solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate VMware Cloud Foundation a nine out of ten.