We are using native cloud capability. The issue is not from us. VMware changed their module. They are selling perpetual licenses with multi-year support. The reason for this change is to make their offering similar to Palo Alto and other technology providers. They started selling something called VCF, VMware Cloud Foundation, which is based on credits. When people start converting or translating the number of their physical cores to actual hypervisor cores using VCF, they are surprised with extremely high prices. Additionally, VMware sent an email to OCI and other hypervisors stating they will not sell their integrated product with them anymore. If any client comes to them, they must take their hardware and come directly to Broadcom as VMware has changed ownership. They must buy VCF licenses directly from Broadcom. Here is the catch: they request an extremely high price to do version upgrades. Some clients refuse because they question why they should be charged for an upgrade when VMware made the change to their product. Even when we take a very high discount for those clients, they decide to move out of VMware.
In my company, we use Avi Networks Software Load Balancer as a global load balancer since its best points are its interface, and good infrastructure, making it a very modernized tool.
Avi Load Balancer is the next-generation load balancer, which VMware provides. Earlier, we used a traditional type of load balancer. Due to the limitation of this traditional load balancer, we deployed this next-generation load balancer. This has very advanced capabilities like a web application firewall and very high-level visibility of an application's traffic flow.
SASE - Anywhere Workspace Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 21, 2022
Typically, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer is used for application delivery, some security use cases, and some Kubernetes service mesh. The primary use cases of the solution are application delivery and resiliency.
VMWare Avi Load Balancer is designed for seamless integration with host environments, providing a user-friendly interface, stable deployment, scalability, and reliable performance.VMWare Avi Load Balancer offers a potent combination of advanced traffic management, application delivery, and network visualization tools tailored for cloud and modern infrastructures. Its core functionalities revolve around a robust web application firewall and comprehensive analytics, which make it a strong...
We are using native cloud capability. The issue is not from us. VMware changed their module. They are selling perpetual licenses with multi-year support. The reason for this change is to make their offering similar to Palo Alto and other technology providers. They started selling something called VCF, VMware Cloud Foundation, which is based on credits. When people start converting or translating the number of their physical cores to actual hypervisor cores using VCF, they are surprised with extremely high prices. Additionally, VMware sent an email to OCI and other hypervisors stating they will not sell their integrated product with them anymore. If any client comes to them, they must take their hardware and come directly to Broadcom as VMware has changed ownership. They must buy VCF licenses directly from Broadcom. Here is the catch: they request an extremely high price to do version upgrades. Some clients refuse because they question why they should be charged for an upgrade when VMware made the change to their product. Even when we take a very high discount for those clients, they decide to move out of VMware.
In my company, we use Avi Networks Software Load Balancer as a global load balancer since its best points are its interface, and good infrastructure, making it a very modernized tool.
Avi Load Balancer is the next-generation load balancer, which VMware provides. Earlier, we used a traditional type of load balancer. Due to the limitation of this traditional load balancer, we deployed this next-generation load balancer. This has very advanced capabilities like a web application firewall and very high-level visibility of an application's traffic flow.
Our primary use case for this solution is for application delivery controls, and the solution is deployed on cloud.
Typically, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer is used for application delivery, some security use cases, and some Kubernetes service mesh. The primary use cases of the solution are application delivery and resiliency.