F5 Volterra vs vCloud Air comparison

F5 and Virtustream are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. F5 is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0, while Virtustream is ranked #23. F5 holds a 0.3% mindshare in ISI, compared to Virtustream’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Virtustream users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

F5 Volterra

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

16th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vCloud Air

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of F5 Volterra is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCloud Air is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
F5 Volterra	0.3%
vCloud Air	0.8%
Other	98.9%

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Ossama ElGedawy

IT Security Senior Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has integrated protection with effective mitigation of DDoS attacks

The valuable features include its API Security, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall. It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks. Before implementing the DDoS protection on F5 Volterra, there were about three successful DDoS incidents. Afterward, I did not experience a single incident for eight months.

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Saurabh Chandratre

Director Solutions Architect - EMEA & APAC at Blue Medora

With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities.

All three components of the vCloud Air are equally valuable and important, i.e., IaaS, DaaS and RaaS. I like the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering compared to the Dedicated Cloud. It gives me the flexibility to utilize the pay-as-you-go option. You can run your workloads in an active state at reasonable prices. I have seen lots of companies use it for their development work, as well as for hosting SQL and Exchange Servers, i.e., in the active-passive mode instead of Replication (RaaS). Disaster Recovery is also a great feature that is affordable and easy to use. Disaster Recovery is a great component of the vCloud Air, where you can protect the on-premises cloud infrastructure, by providing self-service recovery options using the vSphere Replication. Some of the features that really stand out and I have used in my projects are: * Direct Connect: It provides high speed and private line connectivity. * Offline Data Transfer: For encrypted bulk data transport.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The valuable features include its anti-PDUs, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall."

"It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks."

"The Cloud DRaaS solution provided the organization with new levels of flexibility and cost control, together with rapid expansion capability."

"This is the part that should be making admins and CIOs smile."

"VMware Workstation has an interesting feature to manage vSphere infrastructure (and also stand-alone ESXi hosts) that is really powerful and useful, for example to avoid to install the vSphere client (or the integration plugin) just to open one VM console or to change the power status for some VM."

Cons

"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra."

"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report."

"It’s a really good idea, but the current implementation is very limited: you can simply see your VMs and just open the VM console."

"I feel the user interface/portal can be improved further. I did experience timeout issues and the UI was performing slowly at times."

"I don’t think it is quite where EC2 is with regard to capabilities and features but VMware is investing a lot in vCloud Air."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Volterra?

It is not high and not low. It is a fair price.

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What needs improvement with F5 Volterra?

The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report.

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What is your primary use case for F5 Volterra?

I am hosting about twenty applications. They are behind F5, Volterra.

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Overview

Volterra is a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure, and manage applications and data across multiple clouds and at edge locations. Volterra’s global Application Delivery Network (ADN) allows you to secure cloud applications and put critical transactions and workloads closer to end users for a faster and safer digital experience.

Volterra’s solutions solve for:

Multi-Cloud

Consolidate networking, security, and application delivery across cloud providers
Advanced Kubernetes gateway with integrated security and API services across one or more clusters
Globally distributed application gateway to deliver fast performing SaaS apps

Network Cloud

Secure and accelerate private, hybrid or multi-cloud web applications and APIs
Network-hosted workloads to improve end user static and dynamic content experiences
DDoS, advanced security, and IP transit services for private or hybrid clouds

Edge Cloud

Cloud-native compute, storage, network, and security services across edge sites
Secure edge gateway to consolidate SDWAN, security, and API gateways
Volterra’s global network to securely connect distributed edge sites to cloud providers

Volterra assists DevOps and NetOps teams ease operations, security, and performance challenges with two primary products:

VoltMesh™ – SaaS-based offering consolidating networking and security services across cloud and edge sites along with the ability to offload applications to Volterra’s global network.

VoltStack™ – SaaS solution automating deployment, security, and operations of distributed apps and infrastructure across edge, public/private clouds and Volterra’s global application delivery network.

Volterra helps NetOps and DevOps teams improve the performance and security of their critical apps – both modern microservices-based and distributed ones, as well as traditionally designed web apps. Volterra’s architecture and solutions provide the operational simplicity, visibility, and infrastructure abstraction requires by today’s faster IT organizations.

vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.

Virtustream

Sample Customers

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Lumeta, LifeSite, Clear Tec Solutions, National Physician Services, Queens University of Charlotte, California Natural Resources Agency, Pacific Disaster Center, Seventy Seven Energy Inc., Columbia Sportswear , CSS Corp

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