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Cisco Intersight vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.7
Cisco Intersight offers cost savings, simplifies operations, reduces personnel needs, and enhances management, proving valuable in tech evolution.
Sentiment score
5.4
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth helps reduce cloud costs through recommendations, resource optimization, and improved governance, though financial benefits vary.
It simplifies the onboarding of new hardware, reducing time spent on manual installations and configurations.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
I have seen a return on investment, as we need fewer employees, and most of it can be done from one dashboard.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
CloudHealth consistently identifies optimization opportunities, resulting in an estimated twenty to thirty percent reduction in cloud infrastructure costs.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
I have seen a return on investment with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. My company was very happy using this, and they did not buy another solution, so I believe they have seen benefits using this VMWare solution.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
I can say that in my experience, we saved money on using VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, money that would have been spent in the cloud and now we reduce the load and the cost of the clouds.
Lead Technical Recovery Management at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.6
Cisco Intersight's customer service is praised for professionalism and efficiency, though complex issues may face varying quality and escalations.
Sentiment score
6.8
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though complex issues may experience slower response times.
For complex issues, it's challenging to get the right engineer quickly unless you have a specific contract like CX.
Senior Network Architect at ocp tech
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer support a ten.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I would rate the technical support by Cisco as an eight or nine, because Cisco TAC is one of the best TACs I work with.
Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd
They provide 24/7 support based on the SLA with the client, ensuring the response times are matched accordingly.
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
The engineers are knowledgeable and provide practical guidance for resolving cloud management and governance-related problems.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
It is very interactive, with examples on how you can do this or that, and there are the do's and the don'ts.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Cisco Intersight is praised for scalability, adaptability, and efficiency in multi-environment management with easy deployment and server profile management.
Sentiment score
7.2
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is scalable, supports multiple accounts, offers consistent performance, and suits medium to large enterprises efficiently.
I rate its scalability a ten out of ten due to its capability to manage multiple domains and automate service requests.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
Scalability allows for creating server profiles quickly, mapping them to multiple servers, and removing them when scaling down.
Technical Marketing Engineer Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at NetApp
Cisco Intersight scales straightforwardly with the growing needs of the organization.
Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd
The backbone of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is scalability; it is very easy to scale.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is well-suited for medium to large-scale enterprise environments, capable of managing multiple AWS accounts and thousands of cloud resources and workloads across different regions from a single dashboard.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cisco Intersight is reliable, though upgrades and new features may challenge stability, with some preferring older versions.
Sentiment score
7.9
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is praised for stability, reliability, cost optimization, and minimal interruptions, despite occasional data validation needs.
After five years, if I don't have access to the Cisco Intersight portal, how do I manage my servers if I want to conduct some test environments?
Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd
Some steps are not included in the official documentation, which can create challenges.
Senior Network Architect at ocp tech
It is always accessible online, secure, and allows access from any location, following strict authentication standards.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
With VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, I can help optimize services and identify the pain points where cost reduction is necessary.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is stable and reliable in my experience.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is stable in my experience.
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cisco Intersight needs improved integration, ease of use, more features, better support, and cost-effective maintenance for enhanced user satisfaction.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth needs better integration, real-time insights, user-friendly features, and improved performance with cost-effective pricing.
There is a significant issue regarding migration from UCS Manager into Intersight without formatting the Fabric Interconnects (FI), which is problematic in a production environment.
System Presale at Bezeq
It would be great to have a chat session mode AI so that when I am on standby and encountering issues, I could engage with it, much like ChatGPT.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
When registering our devices and servers using tokens, auto-detection could make it easier by automatically identifying resources and adding them to the platform.
Technology Architect at University of Helsinki
The learning curve is steep because people like to take their own time to understand and roll out things, which creates an overhead in getting people to understand the system.
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth can improve by introducing real-time cost visibility and alerting.
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cisco Intersight's competitive pricing includes varied licenses, discounts, and self-setup options, with advanced features requiring higher-tier licenses.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth offers scalable, subscription-based cloud optimization, appealing to larger enterprises despite higher initial costs.
The pricing is fair and reasonable, particularly for enterprises.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
Cisco Intersight's license cost is very high compared to AWS and Azure solutions, which have lower initiation costs.
Technology Architect at University of Helsinki
The pricing is solid for what we get.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
The pricing is suitable for medium and large enterprises operating in multi-cloud environments that require advanced financial operations and governance capabilities.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
Pricing setup is the process of configuring how the cloud costs are calculated and allocated, which includes connecting cloud billing data, defining business groups, mapping resource tags, and setting custom rates if required.
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Cisco Intersight enhances data center efficiency with remote management, automation, and integration across multiple platforms and environments.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth offers cost management, multi-cloud visibility, and automation, enhancing resource optimization and financial oversight across clouds.
This solution has provided time savings and required fewer people to operate this tool, rather than direct cost savings.
Sr. Network Engineer at Saudi Business Machines - SBM
It provides visibility into other products and storage, and is beneficial for environments where Cisco and other vendors coexist, allowing full visibility of the entire infrastructure.
System Presale at Bezeq
It also provides predictive analysis, predicting data leaks and making it easy to scale up servers remotely without requiring physical interference.
Technology Architect at University of Helsinki
Governance and policy management help enforce governance policies by identifying missing tags, non-compliant resources, public storage, and other configuration issues, ensuring organizations maintain security and operational standards across different cloud environments like GCP, AWS, and Azure.
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
With this, we have right-sized many instances, removed many unused EBS volumes, and unused Elastic IPs. In that way, we have cut around 20% of cost.
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
CloudHealth identifies underutilized or idle resources and provides right-sizing recommendations, helping organizations reduce unnecessary cloud spending while maintaining application performance.
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco Intersight
Ranking in Cloud Management
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th)
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Management
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco Intersight is 1.6%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 2.2%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth2.2%
Cisco Intersight1.6%
Other96.2%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

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Technical Marketing Engineer Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at NetApp
Centralized policies have simplified hybrid operations and now support automated workflows
The challenge could be if there are any bugs. Most of the time, you may feel that the TCAM resources are getting full on the Nexus just because of some bug or the configuration is not supported. Or sometimes, if there are any vulnerabilities happening on the current running firmware, those are challenges we have. And if you talk about from the compute side, there were initial bugs such as a CPU throttle issue. Because of that, the chassis was not running in an optimum way. You may see performance issues during that time. For that, Cisco released a patch, and it got fixed. I think Cisco Intersight should allow more automation capabilities. It should be more open, and it should provide more automation capabilities. I think there is also a scope of making it a little bit simpler because a lot of policy and config sometimes becomes confusing for the user because it has a lot of config. Maybe they can do a little bit of simplification with Cisco Intersight.
Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra
Centralized dashboards have optimized multi-cloud costs and improved financial governance
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is a powerful cloud management platform, but there are areas for improvement. I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions. Real-time cost synchronization could be faster, as billing data sometimes has delays. More customized dashboards and report templates would help teams tailor their needs better. Kubernetes cost visibility could be more granular for centralized workloads. Integration with ITSM and automation tools such as ServiceNow and Ansible could be enhanced. Simplifying initial onboarding and policy configuration would also improve the experience for new users. These enhancements would make the platform even more efficient for enterprise cloud operations. This tool is a mature and relevant cloud management platform with several areas that could be enhanced. I would prefer to see more advanced AI capabilities providing predictive insights and automated remediation for common optimization tasks. Better, faster synchronization of cloud billing and utilization data would enable near real-time cost monitoring. I want more customizable dashboards and executive reports tailored for different stakeholders such as FinOps, infrastructure, and management teams. Improving Kubernetes container cost visibility at the pod level is also necessary. I would prefer to see stronger AI-driven automation, faster real-time cost updates, more customizable dashboards, deeper Kubernetes cost visibility, enhanced DevOps integrations, and a simpler onboarding process as areas needing improvement. These enhancements would further increase operational efficiency and make the platform more valuable for enterprise cloud management.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cisco Intersight?
The challenge could be if there are any bugs. Most of the time, you may feel that the TCAM resources are getting full on the Nexus just because of some bug or the configuration is not supported. Or...
What is your primary use case for Cisco Intersight?
The first use case is to build a hybrid cloud. The first thing is to configure the server. The server could be located either on an edge location or on the data center, or it could be a remote offi...
What advice do you have for others considering Cisco Intersight?
I work as a partner. For optimizing, Cisco has various tools. If you talk from a network point of view, they have recently launched Nexus One. That gives enterprise an opportunity to configure a he...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudHealth?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is that the setup is minimal and simple. I have not been directly responsible for pricing setup in CloudHealth, bu...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
My use case for VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is to integrate workloads.
 

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