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VMware Cloud Foundation Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Easy to use and same look. Have been a VMware customer for many many years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

The cost and the lack of communication from Broadcom is concerning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is not a topic I wish to discuss at this time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

What is VMware Cloud Foundation?

VMware Cloud Foundation is a comprehensive private-cloud IaaS software solution that combines the scale and agility of public cloud with the security and performance of private cloud, and offers an industry-leading TCO. Modernize and future-proof your infrastructure with integrated, enterprise-class compute, networking, storage, management, and security across all endpoints. Product Description VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s first private-cloud platform that offers the combined power of public and private clouds with unmatched operational simplicity. Purpose built to modernize infrastructure and accelerate innovation, it delivers an integrated, enterprise-class compute, networking, storage, management, and security, spanning across on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, partner clouds, sovereign clouds, edge, and colocation. Here are the core platform components: • VMware Cloud Foundation Infrastructure Stack: Incorporates VMware's industry-leading solutions – virtualization and compute through vSphere for compute, storage through vSAN, and networking by NSX. • SDDC Manager: Automate the installation, operations, and lifecycle management of the SDDC stack, streamlining deployment, configuration, and updating processes. • Management and Orchestration: Deliver comprehensive operations, automation, and analysis, across the full stack infrastructure platform. • Hybrid Cloud Extension: Enable seamless migration, workload rebalancing, and disaster recovery across private and public clouds. VMware Cloud Foundation helps you solve your toughest challenges by providing: Modern Infrastructure An elastic, scalable infrastructure that delivers an agile cloud operating model at scale, enabling faster time to market, increased innovation, lower TCO, and re-educated operational FTEs due to automated deployment and lifecycle management. Cloud Experience for Developers Increased developer productivity, consolidated VM and container-based workloads on a single platform, AI workloads at enterprise scale, and data service capabilities. Security and Resilience Consistent security policy to protect workloads and infrastructure from lateral cyber-threats, ability to meet corporate compliance and government requirements, distributed network-based context-aware security, and market-leading live recovery capabilities and workflows to protect and recover critical applications and data after a cyber-attack or other disaster event.

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VMware Cloud Foundation provides the easiest way to deploy and run a hybrid cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

An integrated full stack solution that provides consistent infrastructure and management across datacenters, all major hyperscalers, hundreds of CSPs, public clouds, and edge sites with application compatibility without the need to re-factor. License portability enables this commercially.

Best-in-class, industry-recognized, trusted technologies across compute (vSphere), storage (vSAN), networking (NSX), management (Aria), and Kubernetes (TKG) to deliver the richest set of capabilities, providing a single platform for running virtualized and containerized/Kubernetes workloads. A rich ecosystem of technology partners built over more than 25 years provides customers with a tremendous amount of flexibility and choice.

Purpose-built solutions for private AI and cyber-resiliency that enable customers to solve these two high-priority business needs. Private AI joint solutions and reference architectures with Nvidia, Intel, and IBM to accelerate customers' time to value.


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Broadcom
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Year Founded
1991
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San Jose, CA
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@broadcom
59,257 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CA
Phone
+1 800 225-5224
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$27,500,000,000
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Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.


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VMware Cloud Foundation Media

VMware Cloud Foundation Demo - Cloud Builder
Start of cloudbuilder setup for deployment
VMware Cloud Foundation Demo - SDDC Manager Dashboard
Dashboard showing workload domains, cpu, memory storage usage
VMware Cloud Foundation Demo - Guided Setup
SDDC Manager guided setup. Logging in for the first time.
VMware Cloud Foundation Demo - Management domains
SDDC Manager Management domain view, resource usage, network and application info
VMware Cloud Foundation Demo - Workload domain
SDDC Manager workload domain capacity view
VMware Cloud Foundation Demo - vRealize view
SDDC Manager - steps to configure vRealize
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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Good product in terms of managing parts of infrastructure in more-less same place, within one team. As a person, who is working mainly in Operations, it makes our work more interesting because we can work with more than one technology, tool,... From customer perspective, it's easier to comprehend and manage something which is hyper converged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

As any tool ans software there are bugs and there will probably always be some bugs. For bigger scale private clouds, lifecycle management becomes a challange, upgrading VCF takes o lot of time and it's sometimes unrealistic to have everything 100% healthy before starting the whole upgrade. For environment of cca 200 esxi hosts it takes weeks to have them all upgraded via SDDC-Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

No need for external devices for networking, storage solutions. Easy to manage from one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

VCF allows you to centrally manage your VMware environment, including upgrades. It basically moves the data center from all hardware to mostly a software defined data center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

It can be somewhat complicated and time consuming to deploy. Especially, when it comes to configuring the NSX portion of it. That adds an additional layer of complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

This enables us to be able to move workloads from on premise to any of the cloud services providers that support VMware products. The NSX portion allows for microsegmentaion to better secure the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

It is an all in one package like Microsoft Office. You dont need to use Access but you get it anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

it has yet not all the features we need, i.e. multi tenancy and stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

i always had problems with different hardware, now this is gone and hardware is certified

only the tcp offload engine still makes problems (and most likely always will) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

The integration throughout the VMWare stack will definitely help streamline deployments and support of the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Albeit 4 SKUs make navigating the licensing front easier the cost per core is a major challenge in being able to continue support the ROI leveraging the VMWare suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

I directly leverage the automation tools and have been fully automating all our processes. This has allowed us to have very quick turnaround and retool staff to focus on enhancing the environment as a whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Infrastructure as a Service forms the foundation of VMware Cloud, delivering an array of impressive and cutting-edge features for cloud-enabled solutions. With super-fast deployment using the container-based app feature, it ensures seamless operations. The workflow feature empowers apps to run in any cloud environment, showcasing unparalleled flexibility. Its seamless integration with small apps and automation capabilities using Ansible adds significant value to the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

The pricing is unreasonably high compared to other cloud providers such as Amazon and Google Cloud, which offer new users $300 credit and 1 month free. Additionally, virtualization frequently becomes stuck when launching new instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's brilliant, It helps with virtualization and computing and has flexible storage features. The 24/7 support team is amazing at solving issues through collaboration with team members. The supportive environment is really nice. The costing calculator shows a billing feature that allows for pay-as-you-go, which is super convenient. These features are really cool! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

The best ist Evolia - integrator that help us deploy it , and make admin work easy. Upside is the price ;) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Pricing model , and the learning curve, a lot of training before admin will be efficent in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud dependency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Integration of all VMware Products in one product.

Easy to Implement and Manage.

Better customer support.

VCF SDDC Manager can used for frequent updates of products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

Can be more enhanced features. Brownfield deployment should be more easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing Infrastructure.

Easy upgradation the products included.

Easy Monitoring of the Entire Infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

- Simple and user-friendly web graphical interface.

- Hypervisors are added quickly and easily, and VMs are created with the same ease.

- Allows taking snapshots of virtual machines to ensure recovery to a previous state if there are changes in the VMs.

- Allows having multiple virtual networks between the VMs.

- VMWare has integrations with many backup tools to perform agentless backups directly from snapshots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

- The cost is high, but it is totally worth it.

- I can't find more negative opinions for this great product, but one point that might be analyzed is having executable utility applications for its management from Linux, just as there are for Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Virtualization of environments.

- Shared storage in virtual environments.

- Shared networks in virtual environments.

- Optimization of hardware resources and performance of virtualized services.

- Saving physical space in DataCenter racks by having virtualized servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

the integration with the entire suite and the lifecycle management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

that is not flexible and in some case you need to workorund it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

is solvening the integration problem with the many products and is helping during the lifecycle managment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation?

With VCF, organization can simplify the deployment and Management of their IT infrastructure.

It is full stack hyper-converged infrastructure.

Compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources into a single platform.

We can manage all individual components in the SDDC manager.

Password management of all component is very easy.

Scalability of infrastructure is very easy.

Security Patch upgrades and Products upgrades is very easy from the SDDC manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation?

VCF deployment only supports greenfield environment only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation solving and how is that benefiting you?

VCF is a bundled SKU through which we can get all major VMware components, allowing us to reduce costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.