We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and VMware Software Defined Data Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has every feature that we need and overall, it's pretty good."
"I appreciate that all the tools are available natively within Azure. It's all set up nicely. It's all minor."
"The beauty of Azure is that most of the features are easily accessible. It is user-friendly. Almost all resources in Azure are very easily accessible. For example, you can access a virtual machine, and you can scale it up. You can go ahead with different infrastructure-as-a-service in Azure for the platform or for the cloud. Different levels of development could be done using it."
"The solution's technical support is great since, in our company, we get answers to most of our questions, and most of our queries get resolved with the help of the documentation itself."
"The solution is certainly stable."
"When we engage Azure Stack, it's very easy to lift and shift. That's why we've been successful because we can be clear and fast in understanding workflows from the customer."
"It is probably the best solution out there."
"The stability is good. We haven't had any issues with the viability or scalability. It's been good so far."
"It has good performance and flexibility."
"The stability of this solution is great."
"The VMware Software Defined Data Center Manager can be used to manage VMs across multiple platforms."
"Bare Metal Ethernet SAN "dramatically improved" performance, stability, and reliability of the VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the infrastructure as a service."
"It is very easy to do technology refreshments, patching, and upgrades with almost zero downtime. Its easy to bring servers online within few minutes."
"The solution does not occupy much space."
"The feature set and the maturity of the product are most valuable."
"I believe the only room for improvement is that I am based in Nairobi, if it has even a local node for Azure, I believe most customers will prefer that to reduce latencies and everything else when using the Azure Stack."
"Azure Stack is relatively new and lacks the features compared to public Azure."
"The challenge in Azure Stack begins at an individual level when you try to monitor every service from Azure Stack that gets consumed."
"Azure Stack could be improved with more integration, governance tools, monitor tools, and lift and shift tools."
"Azure Stack is an expensive product that should be made more cost-effective."
"There should be more focus on the user interface, specifically for the management console."
"Azure Messaging services are in need of improvement."
"The price of the OCR could be more competitive with Google."
"The solution must provide more features."
"The most recent web-based interface has given us some problems."
"It would be an improvement to have more functionality with hardware products."
"We have some Intel machines and some AMD machines, are we cannot mix these within the same cluster."
"They are using vRealize Log Insight as the virtualized log platform, but this solution is not well developed and not yet ready to use for advanced optimization and troubleshooting."
"I would recommend bundling so the end customer can utilize all the automation and orchestration features with SDC."
"The interface should be improved because when there are many alarms, it is difficult to figure out what the error is."
"The storage utilization needs to be improved. It is not a perfect product. It needs to be more secure, and it needs more aesthetics."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 61 reviews while VMware Software Defined Data Center is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 29 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while VMware Software Defined Data Center is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Data Center writes " Stable and Scalable data solution with good customer service ". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware Software Defined Data Center is most compared with . See our Azure Stack vs. VMware Software Defined Data Center report.
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