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."The user interface is nice and very simple to use."
"From my experience, this solution is suitable for enterprise companies."
"Microsoft support is fast."
"If a user wants to upgrade Office 365 from any of the packages, there is no disruption happening during migration, and the data is kept safe. There's no loss of data."
"The tool has simplified our application development."
"The admin dashboard is the main feature of the solution."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is the SDDC Manager."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the infrastructure as a service."
"The product gives us a follow-up on the infrastructure environment."
"It is very easy to do technology refreshments, patching, and upgrades with almost zero downtime. Its easy to bring servers online within few minutes."
"Bare Metal Ethernet SAN "dramatically improved" performance, stability, and reliability of the VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture."
"It has good performance and flexibility."
"The feature set and the maturity of the product are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the strong support. Also, the H-Appliance feature that supports MPLS is very important to us."
"Azure Stack doesn't have all the services available in Microsoft Azure."
"The challenge in Azure Stack begins at an individual level when you try to monitor every service from Azure Stack that gets consumed."
"I would like to see better support for containers."
"Microsoft is changing the Azure Stack interface all the time, so it's sometimes hard to find the functionality or the service you're looking for. A feature was in one place and now it has moved somewhere else."
"Azure Messaging services are in need of improvement."
"The user experience could be improved to make it more comfortable."
"Certain elements are difficult to deploy."
"It's not stable as IBM solutions. It fully supports all the .NET solutions, but our main applications are based in Java. So in those cases, we've had some minor problems with Azure, but Microsoft always says that it can handle this stuff."
"The most recent web-based interface has given us some problems."
"We would like to have active-active replication."
"The solution needs performance optimization of the VMware IO technology."
"The storage utilization needs to be improved. It is not a perfect product. It needs to be more secure, and it needs more aesthetics."
"It would be an improvement to have more functionality with hardware products."
"There's quite a lot of uncertainty at the moment regarding the solution following the Broadcom acquisition of VMware."
"The solution must provide more features."
"The automation of the solution needs improvement. We should be able to automate some processes."
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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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