We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and VMware Cloud Foundation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"It is easy to set up."
"You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge."
"They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of migrating from on-premises infrastructure when transitioning away from older systems."
"It is a scalable platform."
"We are using it for infrastructure automation."
"VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to set up new environments. You get hosts in a pool, which you can build into a new cluster."
"The product enables flexibility in network structures."
"The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us."
"The solution should have more integration."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."
"The user experience must be improved."
"They need to offer more support for Mac."
"The documentation could be easier to read"
"The price could be better. VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for. It would be better if it were cheaper because it would be easier to go to customers and get them to buy it. We'd get more projects, and that would be great."
"Cost is a challenge when convincing clients, especially for large deals."
"The platform needs improvement in terms of troubleshooting."
"Working on features that could include the capability to migrate workflows from non-VMware environments would be highly beneficial."
"In the early adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation, we have seen minor problems. For example, in our Federation, I see the single pane of glass where we need to manage everything, which is good. However, internally, we have a Kafka database that is distributed by the database used by the SDDC manager. During the distribution and synchronization, there is some issue and we need to stop the process."
"They should provide integration with Azure VMware Solution."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 16 reviews while VMware Cloud Foundation is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 23 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while VMware Cloud Foundation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Cloud Foundation writes "Offers automated deployment features that enhances operational efficiency and simplifying complex tasks ". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Firebase, whereas VMware Cloud Foundation is most compared with Azure Stack, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), AWS Outposts, Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Alibaba Cloud vs. VMware Cloud Foundation report.
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