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VMware Software Defined Data Center pros and cons

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Pros & Cons summary

VMware Software Defined Data Center offers strong support with H-Appliance and MPLS. Bare Metal Ethernet SAN enhances performance and reliability in VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture. SDDC Manager provides valuable integration and management features alongside ease of deploying virtual machines. Important assets include higher availability and DRS with NetApp integration. However, improvements in storage utilization, security, and vSAN stability are needed. Interface changes and Broadcom acquisition cause uncertainty, while support dissatisfaction affects customers.

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PROS

VMware Software Defined Data Center offers strong support and important features like MPLS with the H-Appliance.
Bare Metal Ethernet SAN has dramatically improved performance, stability, and reliability.
SDDC Manager is a valuable feature for managing VMware hosts and offers integration through a single pane of glass.
The platform provides high stability and ease of virtual machine deployment and management.
Higher availability and flexibility are ensured through features like DRS and automated dynamic allocation handled by VMware.

CONS

Storage utilization needs improvement and lacks aesthetics.
vSAN stability is a major concern; frequent issues arise.
vRealize Log Insight is insufficiently developed for advanced tasks.
Frequent interface changes lead to compatibility and learning issues.
Broadcom acquisition creates uncertainty around VMware's future.
 

VMware Software Defined Data Center Pros review quotes

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Aurelio Rodas
IT Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 12, 2018
The most valuable feature is the strong support. Also, the H-Appliance feature that supports MPLS is very important to us.
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Ron W. Szpak
Solution Architect at Extreme Network Engineering
May 16, 2019
Bare Metal Ethernet SAN "dramatically improved" performance, stability, and reliability of the VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture.
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Pre-sales Consultant at Beta Information Technology
Oct 11, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is the SDDC Manager.
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Hatim Ali
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 10, 2019
Using this solution will provide you with a lot of features for working with multiple VMware hosts.
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EmanueleSparacino
IT Architect at Poste Italiane
Oct 13, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is integration because everything is available on a single pane of glass.
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Technical Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Oct 13, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is the infrastructure as a service.
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
Oct 13, 2019
he ease of deploying virtual machines is the solution's most valuable feature. Moving virtual machines from one post to another is easy. Within minutes you can easily deploy your virtual machines and deploy your applications as well.
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DenisDI SANTO
Senior System Engineer at Clinique Pasteur
Oct 16, 2019
The stability of this solution is great.
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Solomon Adebamowo
Techincal Sales Manager at ENTAP TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Oct 22, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is vSphere.
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Mohamed Zein
Datacenter TeamLeader at Crystal Neworks Egypt
Nov 18, 2019
The documentation is very good.
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VMware Software Defined Data Center Cons review quotes

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Aurelio Rodas
IT Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 12, 2018
The storage utilization needs to be improved. It is not a perfect product. It needs to be more secure, and it needs more aesthetics.
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Ron W. Szpak
Solution Architect at Extreme Network Engineering
May 16, 2019
The solution needs performance optimization of the VMware IO technology.
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Pre-sales Consultant at Beta Information Technology
Oct 11, 2019
The main problem that we are facing with this solution is vSAN stability.
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Hatim Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
Hatim Ali
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 10, 2019
The most recent web-based interface has given us some problems.
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EmanueleSparacino
IT Architect at Poste Italiane
Oct 13, 2019
We have some Intel machines and some AMD machines, are we cannot mix these within the same cluster.
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Technical Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Oct 13, 2019
They are using vRealize Log Insight as the virtualized log platform, but this solution is not well developed and not yet ready to use for advanced optimization and troubleshooting.
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Bunmi-Sadiq
IT Supervisor at APM Terminals, Inc.
Oct 13, 2019
The automation of the solution needs improvement. We should be able to automate some processes.
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DenisDI SANTO
Senior System Engineer at Clinique Pasteur
Oct 16, 2019
It would be an improvement to have more functionality with hardware products.
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Solomon Adebamowo
Techincal Sales Manager at ENTAP TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Oct 22, 2019
We would like to have active-active replication.
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Mohamed Zein
Datacenter TeamLeader at Crystal Neworks Egypt
Nov 18, 2019
The interface should be improved because when there are many alarms, it is difficult to figure out what the error is.
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