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Red Hat OpenShift vs VMware Cloud Foundation comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 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
7.4
Red Hat OpenShift boosts ROI with enhanced productivity, scalability, and security, offering efficient integration and modernization despite initial costs.
Sentiment score
5.7
VMware Cloud Foundation promises future returns with potential savings, despite high costs, through increased efficiency and stability.
With OpenShift combined with IBM Cloud App integration, I can spin an integration server in a second as compared to traditional methods, which could take days or weeks.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Moving to OpenShift resulted in increased system stability and reduced downtime, which contributed to operational efficiency.
Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group
It is always advisable to get the bare minimum that you need, and then add more when necessary.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
VMware Cloud Foundation allows cost and time savings by quickly deploying infrastructure requests and integrating automatic ticketing and backup services.
Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank
In terms of ROI, although VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive, it saves time in most cases, which indirectly saves costs for users.
Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Red Hat OpenShift support is praised for expertise and community support but criticized for delays and complex documentation.
Sentiment score
7.0
VMware Cloud Foundation's support is generally responsive and professional, but some users seek improvements in speed and issue resolution.
Red Hat's technical support is responsive and effective.
Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group
Customer support is really good because so far in our case, we have always received a prompt response, and they have been really helpful to us.
ML Engineer - Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have been pretty happy in the past with getting support from Red Hat.
Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are times when support is unclear, and even VMware support personnel may lack familiarity with certain parts, causing difficulties.
Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.
Based on my nine years of experience with VMware, I would evaluate their technical support as effective.
VMware Administrator at Infosys
The technical support from VMware Cloud Foundation deserves a nine out of ten rating.
Cyber Security Analyst at Amdari
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Red Hat OpenShift efficiently scales nodes and applications, supports large operations, but some desire improved on-premise capabilities.
Sentiment score
7.8
VMware Cloud Foundation offers excellent scalability, adaptable for various businesses, though dependent on licensing and hardware configurations.
The on-demand provisioning of pods and auto-scaling, whether horizontal or vertical, is the best part.
Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
OpenShift's horizontal pod scaling is more effective and efficient than that used in Kubernetes, making it a superior choice for scalability.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Red Hat OpenShift scales excellently, with a rating of ten out of ten.
System Analyst at Freelancer
When more hosts are added, performance goes slow.
Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems
VMware Cloud Foundation supports scalability and company growth.
Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank
VMware Cloud Foundation is quite scalable, receiving a rating of eight and a half to nine out of ten.
Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Red Hat OpenShift is praised for high stability, efficiently handling production, with improvements minimizing external-impact issues.
Sentiment score
7.7
VMware Cloud Foundation is stable and reliable, with high performance and minimal issues, despite some migration complexities.
It provides better performance yet requires more resources compared to vanilla Kubernetes.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I've had my cluster running for over four years.
Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group
It performs well under load, providing the desired output.
System Analyst at Freelancer
The stability of VMware Cloud Foundation is very high.
Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems
If one component fails to operate in a timely manner, the entire infrastructure can go down because everything is interconnected.
Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.
I am currently satisfied with the stability of VMware Cloud Foundation, though having started only two to three months ago, I am still in the monitoring phase.
VMware Administrator at Infosys
 

Room For Improvement

Red Hat OpenShift requires improvements in documentation, security, integration, support, GUI, scalability, resource demands, and user experience.
VMware Cloud Foundation requires improved integration, security, user-friendly features, better pricing, and enhanced support, especially post-Broadcom acquisition.
Learning OpenShift requires complex infrastructure, needing vCenter integration, more advanced answers, active directory, and more expensive hardware.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We should aim to include VMware-like capabilities to be competitive, especially considering cost factors.
System Analyst at Freelancer
VMware Broadcom needs to include auto resource allocation at the VM levels.
Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems
The maintenance cost has increased significantly, especially after Broadcom acquired VMware, with a shift from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing.
Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank
Each user needs deep knowledge of every aspect of virtualization.
Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.
 

Setup Cost

Red Hat OpenShift offers comprehensive features but is criticized for high costs, especially when upgrading to the licensed version.
VMware Cloud Foundation is costly but valued for comprehensive features, despite post-acquisition price hikes; bundles offer savings.
Initially, licensing was per CPU, with a memory cap, but the price has doubled, making it difficult to justify for clients with smaller compute needs.
Senior Technical Lead at MORO
The pricing for Red Hat OpenShift is considered quite high.
Manager for Middleware at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat can improve on the pricing part by making it more flexible and possibly on the lower side.
Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The cost has become very high, especially after Broadcom's acquisition, altering the licensing model to a more expensive core-based system.
Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank
When comparing prices of both clouds, AWS is cheaper because they offer a free section for practice.
Cyber Security Analyst at Amdari
The price is quite higher than some other vendors.
Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems
 

Valuable Features

Red Hat OpenShift provides fast CI/CD, scalability, security, automation, and integration for seamless, secure, and flexible application deployment.
VMware Cloud Foundation offers scalable automation, disaster recovery, and seamless management, enhancing operational efficiency and infrastructure modernization.
Because it was centrally managed in our company, many metrics that we had to write code for were available out of the box, including utilization, CPU utilization, memory, and similar metrics.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The concept of containers and scaling on demand is a feature I appreciate the most about Red Hat OpenShift.
Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
A valuable feature of Red Hat OpenShift is its ability to handle increased loads by automatically adding nodes.
System Analyst at Freelancer
The solution now offers auto-deployment of VMs.
VMware Administrator at Infosys
All features of VMware Cloud Foundation are valuable to us, as it covers every industry standard protocol and requirement protocol.
Deputy Manager, Customer Services at Jaffer Business Systems
VMware Cloud Foundation allows for extensive customization, aligning with our customer requirements.
Credit Analyst - Risk Management at Boubyan Bank
 

Categories and Ranking

Red Hat OpenShift
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (11th), Container Management (10th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)
VMware Cloud Foundation
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 7.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Foundation is 18.3%, down from 23.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
VMware Cloud Foundation18.3%
Red Hat OpenShift7.0%
Other74.7%
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Pratul Shukla - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management
Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.
Narasimha Reddy Illuri - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Administrator at Infosys
There is progress in performance and stability, but further advancements are needed for end-user satisfaction
VMware Cloud Foundation's best features include its advanced capabilities, security purposes, and performance levels. The solution offers efficient licensing options. Previously, vSphere essential was available, but now it has moved to VMware Cloud Foundation 8.0. It includes advanced features such as lifecycle manager, patching level, and cluster level patching options. The solution now offers auto-deployment of VMs. Previously, I had to use the content library, right-click, and create VMs manually. With VMware Cloud Foundation, auto-deployment is possible by simply right-clicking and assigning a specific DHCP IP, enabling physical to vCenter level communication for automatic VM deployment. The workload portability feature in VMware Cloud Foundation provides good workload balance. For instance, in a cluster level with four to five ESXi hosts, each host has minimum resources allocated for CPU and memory, resulting in significantly reduced utilization at the VMware Cloud Foundation level.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise27
 

Questions from the Community

How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?
Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...
Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...
What do you like most about OpenShift?
OpenShift facilitates DevOps practices and improves CI/CD workflows in terms of stability compared to Jenkins.
What do you like most about VMware Cloud Foundation?
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 inf...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Foundation?
The price for VMware Cloud Foundation is not cheap, as the market is competitive with AWS cloud. When comparing prices of both clouds, AWS is cheaper because they offer a free section for practice....
What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Foundation?
In VMware Cloud Foundation, areas that have room for improvement include the experience between VMware Cloud Foundation and the cloud. I prefer working with the cloud due to my study with the archi...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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