The VMware approach to the SDDC delivers a unified platform that supports any application and provides flexible control. The VMware architecture for the SDDC empowers companies to run hybrid clouds and to leverage unique capabilities to deliver key outcomes that enable efficiency, agility, and security. Enterprises using VMware technology have three ways to establish an SDDC and transition at their own pace: build their own using reference architectures; use a converged infrastructure; or use a hyper-converged infrastructure for which the full SDDC is delivered already implemented on the customer's hardware of choice.
| Type | Title | Date | |
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| Category | Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) | May 25, 2025 | Download |
| Product | Reviews, tips, and advice from real users | May 25, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | VMware Software Defined Data Center vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) | May 25, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | VMware Software Defined Data Center vs Azure Stack | May 25, 2025 | Download |
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| Azure Stack | 4.0 | 42.9% | 92% | 67 interviewsAdd to research |
VMware Software Defined Data Center was previously known as VMware SDDC.
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The VMware Software Defined Data Center Manager can be used to manage VMs across multiple platforms.
There's quite a lot of uncertainty at the moment regarding the solution following the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. After the Broadcom acquisition, they changed the licensing model, reduced their product's queues, removed all the perpetual licenses, and moved to subscription. We are unsure about the future growth and stability of our organization.
I have been using VMware Software Defined Data Center for a few months.
The solution is scalable because it is only at the hypervisor layer.
The solution’s technical support is good, given that we are paying for the additional VMware technical account manager.
Positive
Currently, VMware is better than Azure Stack in terms of software, stability, capability, and known functions. I would like to see Microsoft match or even go further than VMware in 12 months to provide some alternative and competitive environment.
The solution has a medium ease of deployment because it's an enterprise-wide deployment with a highly critical environment.
The solution's deployment was an eight-month project.
VMware Software Defined Data Center is a very expensive solution.
The solution allows a lot of automation and easy migration between on-premises and the cloud. At the moment, we're still exploring the solution's future use cases. Predominantly, it is used for conducting maintenance on the on-premise data center. It allows us to quickly migrate the instances into the cloud as temporary hosting, do the maintenance on-premises, and then shift back from the cloud to the on-premises instance.
The solution has supported our organization's transition to a hybrid or multi-cloud environment, as expected, based on the very high price point of the product and services. The VMware Software Defined Data Center Manager can be used to manage VMs across multiple platforms.
The solution's network visualization capability has positively impacted our data center's efficiency. Our data center has always been set up with virtualization in mind. It has been architectured to use virtualization. We can host up to 5,000 to 6,000 users and a lot of applications.
The solution has a medium ease of deployment because it's an enterprise-wide deployment with a highly critical environment. There's a lot more access to resources with VMware capability compared to other visualization platforms. It is easy to maintain VMware Software Defined Data Center.
The solution reduces time when replicating similar VDIs or VMs for a set of repetitive environments or requests. For example, we can easily automate the creation of VDI environments for a set of users that fall under the same group. The automation is pretty easy to stand up compared to the manual labor-intensive task of creating a VM one by one.
Users should look at what they actually need for their organization. VMware Software Defined Data Center might be the best product out there, but it might not be the right fit for your organization. Before choosing the solution, do your homework and understand your requirements because there are alternatives.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
