F5 Volterra vs VMware Cloud Foundation comparison

F5 and VMware are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. F5 is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.0, while VMware is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.3. F5 holds a 0.1% mindshare in ISI, compared to VMware’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of VMware users who would recommend it.

F5 Volterra

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100% willing to recommend

VMware Cloud Foundation

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91% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

F5 Volterra

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

15th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

3.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Cloud Foundation

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of F5 Volterra is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Foundation is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Mangesh Parjane

Technical Manager at Owens & Minor, Inc.

Experience has improved centralized management through single console operations

There is room for improvement in how section updates are handled. The challenge lies in the difficulty of pinpointing issues when something goes wrong at a single stage. Also, each user needs deep knowledge of every aspect of virtualization, and the VMware personnel might not fully grasp aspects outside their expertise, requiring the involvement of other professionals.

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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."

"I like that VMware Cloud Foundation reduces both the installation and setup time from a matter of weeks to hours."

"The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features."

"Technical support is helpful."

"The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us."

"I'm able to deploy many platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Azure on VMware."

"The mission aspect of the solution is the most valuable feature."

"The main features are the separation between the management plane and the workload. You can use NSX to provision between the different areas of the network, like west-east or north-south."

"VMware Cloud Foundation's most valuable features are password and certificate management. The SDDC manager tool is the front tool we are using to manage the entire VCF stack. In the SDDC manager, we can able to rotate, and update the passwords of all users. Anything in the VMware portfolio, we can manage from a single dashboard and we have various data centers. We have connected everything into one Federation. From one single place, we are managing our entire virtual interactions."

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Cons

"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra."

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

"I would like to be able to connect the APIs."

"The maintenance cost has increased significantly, especially after Broadcom acquired VMware, with a shift from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The platform needs improvement in terms of troubleshooting."

"The use of cloud and other integrations need to be improved and made easier."

"If one component fails to operate in a timely manner, the entire infrastructure can go down because everything is interconnected. This is the biggest issue."

"Integrations are slightly difficult, as getting resources to deal with it is not that easy."

"They should provide integration with Azure VMware Solution."

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"If our customer has the option to buy a server for $4,000 or $5,000, but VMware asks for two-person licensing $7,000 to $8,000, which is more than the hardware price. So sometimes, the customer cannot pay for it because it's too expensive."

"The pricing can be more competitive."

"There is an annual license required to use the solution."

"The pricing of VMware Cloud Foundation could improve, it is expensive."

"The price of VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive."

"The pricing is moderate. I would rate it six out of ten."

"This solutuion can be expensive for small and medium-sized companies."

"VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for."

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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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What do you like most about VMware Cloud Foundation?

VMware Cloud Foundation provides us with the vSphere dashboard through which we can manage, monitor, schedule, and spin up your virtual machines. We can manage, monitor, and get reports of your inf...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Foundation?

I'm not involved in sales, so I have no specific information about pricing. However, I've heard it's not a cheap product, but the cost includes very good support.

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What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Foundation?

VMware Cloud Foundation is complex, and there are always updates regarding security features, accessibility, and the user interface. Making changes isn't simple because there are a lot of tables to...

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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.

VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to deploy and run a hybrid cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.

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