F5 Volterra vs VMware Cloud Foundation comparison

F5 and Broadcom are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. F5 is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0, while Broadcom is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2. F5 holds a 0.3% mindshare in ISI, compared to Broadcom’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom 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)

16th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Cloud Foundation

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (3rd)

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 VMware Cloud Foundation is 2.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Foundation	2.0%
F5 Volterra	0.3%
Other	97.7%

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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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Narasimha Reddy Illuri

VMware Administrator at Infosys

There is progress in performance and stability, but further advancements are needed for end-user satisfaction

VMware Cloud Foundation's best features include its advanced capabilities, security purposes, and performance levels. The solution offers efficient licensing options. Previously, vSphere essential was available, but now it has moved to VMware Cloud Foundation 8.0. It includes advanced features such as lifecycle manager, patching level, and cluster level patching options. The solution now offers auto-deployment of VMs. Previously, I had to use the content library, right-click, and create VMs manually. With VMware Cloud Foundation, auto-deployment is possible by simply right-clicking and assigning a specific DHCP IP, enabling physical to vCenter level communication for automatic VM deployment. The workload portability feature in VMware Cloud Foundation provides good workload balance. For instance, in a cluster level with four to five ESXi hosts, each host has minimum resources allocated for CPU and memory, resulting in significantly reduced utilization at the VMware Cloud Foundation level.

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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 fact that it automates a lot of manual processes in a net new environment build is most valuable."

"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 automation capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation demonstrate excellent performance because of the private cloud automation, where you can develop things and manage the software into the data section, which is the SDDC."

"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 infrastructure."

"The scalability is very good, and autoscaling, scalability, and metering in any department are good, so a department can meter how much they're using, which is very helpful, and a business can calculate how many resources are being consumed by each department and how much it's costing."

"The most valuable aspect of VMware Cloud Foundation is you can manage everything from area."

"They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center."

"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."

"After the acquisition, prices have been going up."

"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."

"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."

"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."

"An improvement needed is an upgrade to make it more scalable and automated, so that it can be easier to navigate within the cloud and the Kubernetes and vSphere, enabling VMware Cloud Foundation to deliver a more scalable hybrid cloud and manage the lifecycle between the management and Kubernetes section."

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

"Typically, the ABA in comparison to other products needs improvement, but it depends on the customer."

"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."

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

"The price of VMware Cloud Foundation is a bit high. However, it comes with a lot of useful features and can handle a lot of operational complexity. Overall the price can be seen as being fair for what it offers."

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

"The tool's price is slightly on the higher side, but I guess you think there is no one-to-one comparison with other tools. The licensing part has become easier, while earlier, it was quite complex."

"The price of VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive."

"I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten."

"It is quite expensive."

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

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	27

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?

The price for VMware Cloud Foundation is not cheap, as the market is competitive with AWS cloud. When comparing prices of both clouds, AWS is cheaper because they offer a free section for practice....

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What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Foundation?

In VMware Cloud Foundation, areas that have room for improvement include the experience between VMware Cloud Foundation and the cloud. I prefer working with the cloud due to my study with the archi...

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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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