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VMware Cloud Foundation pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.1 out of 5
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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

virtuali332868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 13, 2019
The mission aspect of the solution is the most valuable feature.
HI
IT Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oct 20, 2019
The product enables flexibility in network structures.
SA
Techincal Sales Manager at ENTAP TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Oct 24, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is the disaster recovery software.
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reviewer1190691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Systems Team Leader at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Dec 16, 2019
The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us.
MS
Sr. Manager-Data Center and Virtualization at Omgea Exim Ltd
Jan 30, 2020
The ability to auto-scale is the most valuable feature.
TL
CEO at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB
Apr 20, 2020
They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center.
MS
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
Nov 7, 2021
You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge.
TL
CEO at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB
Feb 22, 2022
I like that VMware Cloud Foundation reduces both the installation and setup time from a matter of weeks to hours.
Ololade Olotu - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Apr 5, 2022
Technical support is helpful.
SK
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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.
 

VMware Cloud Foundation Cons review quotes

virtuali332868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 13, 2019
They need to offer more support for Mac.
HI
IT Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oct 20, 2019
The use of cloud and other integrations need to be improved and made easier.
SA
Techincal Sales Manager at ENTAP TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Oct 24, 2019
We would like the ability to write to both sites at the same time, in a synchronous fashion.
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reviewer1190691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Systems Team Leader at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Dec 16, 2019
The interface is good, but there are compatibility issues or issues with the certificate for the VCenter.
MS
Sr. Manager-Data Center and Virtualization at Omgea Exim Ltd
Jan 30, 2020
The deployment is clumsy and complex. There are too many things that need to be done in order to deploy.
TL
CEO at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB
Apr 20, 2020
I would like to be able to connect the APIs.
MS
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
Nov 7, 2021
The solution could improve by being more secure.
TL
CEO at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB
Feb 22, 2022
The price could be better. VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for. It would be better if it were cheaper because it would be easier to go to customers and get them to buy it. We'd get more projects, and that would be great.
Ololade Olotu - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Apr 5, 2022
The pricing could be a bit less expensive.
SK
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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.