We compared Rancher Labs and VMware Tanzu Mission Control based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Rancher Labs excels in its user-friendly interface, diverse integration options, and reliable performance. Users praise its cost-effectiveness, customer service, and ease of setup. On the other hand, VMware Tanzu Mission Control stands out for its comprehensive management capabilities, multi-cloud deployment, and advanced security features. Users value its responsive customer service, competitive pricing, and efficient resource utilization. Both platforms have room for improvement in certain areas, such as UI intuitiveness and platform performance.
Features: Rancher Labs is known for its easy-to-use interface, extensive integration options, and reliable performance. On the other hand, VMware Tanzu Mission Control offers comprehensive management capabilities, seamless multi-cloud deployment, and advanced security measures.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost of Rancher Labs' product is praised for being reasonable and user-friendly, allowing for a smooth implementation process. On the other hand, VMware Tanzu Mission Control's setup cost is described as minimal and straightforward, with no additional complexities. Both products offer flexible and competitive pricing options and hassle-free licensing processes., Rancher Labs' product offers seamless integration and easy scalability, resulting in cost savings, improved productivity, and increased revenue. VMware Tanzu Mission Control enables effective management, streamlined operations, and better resource allocation within the VMware ecosystem.
Room for Improvement: Rancher Labs: Users have provided feedback on areas where Rancher Labs could enhance their services. VMware Tanzu Mission Control: Users have identified several areas where VMware Tanzu Mission Control can be enhanced. These include improvements in user interface, performance, documentation, and customization options.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Rancher Labs and VMware Tanzu Mission Control indicate varying timeframes for establishing a new tech solution. Rancher Labs users mentioned timeframes such as three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, while VMware Tanzu Mission Control users reported deployment phase of three months and an additional week for setup. The specific context in which these terms are used should be considered for accurate evaluation., Rancher Labs' customer service is consistently regarded as effective, reliable, and knowledgeable, with prompt issue resolution. VMware Tanzu Mission Control's support team is highly praised for their excellent, top-notch, and responsive service, providing prompt and efficient resolution to issues.
The summary above is based on 15 interviews we conducted recently with Rancher Labs and VMware Tanzu Mission Control users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The most important feature of Tanzu Mission Control is its integration with the other products, especially with ESX and vSAN. This is a strong part of Tanzu Mission Control. In other solutions, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, you can find similar features, but they don't have similar integration. With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider. You have the integration with the infrastructure, virtualization of networking, and virtualization of storage. You have a natural integration, and you don't have the problem of integrating it with different products or providers. Sometimes, different companies have good integration, but it is not always guaranteed. For example, many years ago, Cisco and VMware were good partners in networking, but when VMware started to sell ESX, the relationship was broken. This is the problem that you can face when you are using solutions from two different companies."
"The most popular feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is its graphical user interface for describing network policies on the Service Mesh, which is highly integrable with other tools commonly used in supply chains such as security."
"Defining security metrics has proven beneficial for customers in maintaining a safe environment."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is the management functionality of the cluster life cycle. Additionally, the solution integrates well with other vendors, such as Velero for backups and Sonobuoy for compliance. Additionally, it works well in multi-cluster environments."
"A feature we find valuable is that other products can also be integrated with Mission Control. This means that we can see the status of specific clusters, as well as view the monitoring application logs all from one point."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It definitely gives the end customer a good overview and perspective of running applications in terms of overall workload footprint. TMC provides a very detailed description of your cloud-native application in the form of graphical visualization."
"The most important thing about the solution is its flexibility."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"Another area of improvement is pricing."
"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"
"This product doesn't have a GUI. In order to use it properly, I need to connect it to a new GUI or build a GUI to manage it — it's pretty difficult."
"The disaster recovery feature could be improved to provide better tracking of issues. I would also like to see the introduction of a dashboard view, for even further integration of all the areas that Mission Control looks at."
"Tanzu provides better manageability as compared to OCP, but when it comes to tagging it with other products, it's a bit rigid. If I have to bring in any new product or something out of the box from a different vendor, working with Tanzu becomes a little difficult. For example, if I want to use the F5 services, I have to add one more layer of Avi, but I don't want to do that. If I have a list of the products that I want to use, such as for firewall services, with Tanzu, I will have to go through another layer, which creates complexity."
"The network control and security policies must be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions such as HPE."
"The infrastructure is quite challenging."
Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews while VMware Tanzu Mission Control is ranked 3rd in Container Management with 12 reviews. Rancher Labs is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu Mission Control is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Mission Control writes "Gives a single pane to manage multiple Kubernetes environments and has competitive pricing". Rancher Labs is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas VMware Tanzu Mission Control is most compared with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon EKS and Docker. See our Rancher Labs vs. VMware Tanzu Mission Control report.
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