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 solution is easy to use, especially for individuals who are not familiar with coding and has security built-in."
"The solution is certainly stable."
"The setup is very straightforward and it's quite stable."
"The best thing about this product is that it is user-friendly and intuitive."
"Its customer service is good."
"The most valuable feature is the OCR, which I use for reading PDFs."
"Technical support is quick and responsive."
"The most valuable features are the control and flexibility that we have, where we can build our own solutions from scratch."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vSphere."
"The most valuable feature is its central management system."
"The VMware Software Defined Data Center Manager can be used to manage VMs across multiple platforms."
"The most valuable features are server virtualization and network virtualization."
"The stability of this solution is great."
"The most valuable feature is the strong support. Also, the H-Appliance feature that supports MPLS is very important to us."
"The documentation is very good."
"The feature set and the maturity of the product are most valuable."
"Our only issue with Azure Stack so far is that the networking is very closed. You need to have the extended LAN to connect the internal LAN to the Azure Stack. Any connection we have needs site-to-site VPN connectivity instead of an internal connection, so Azure Stack has room for improvement in the networking area."
"Certain elements are difficult to deploy."
"They can provide more integration with other services, such as components, open source, because I use these services."
"For some years, Azure has been working on Synapse. It's their big footprint on the analytics stack. It's a little bit heavy right now in the sense that there are too many components and it's too complex."
"Azure Stack is an expensive product that should be made more cost-effective."
"The solution could use more training materials to help users understand how to use the product effectively. Online training would also be a beneficial addition to the product."
"PaaS is not ready because they are only offering MS SQL as a service, web applications as a service, and containers as a service."
"I think the monitoring tools needs some improvement."
"We would like to see more analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning capabilities in their products."
"It would be great to have compatibility with vendors like UCS."
"The interface should be improved because when there are many alarms, it is difficult to figure out what the error is."
"It would be an improvement to have more functionality with hardware products."
"The solution needs performance optimization of the VMware IO technology."
"The solution must provide more features."
"There could be more insights for hyper-cloud solutions in terms of enhanced configuration."
"We would like to have active-active replication."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 60 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 Google Anthos, 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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