Solution Architect, Consultant and Corporate Trainer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
Oct 3, 2025
We are direct partners and not using any marketplace. We are working on software-defined SDDC but not using it 100% completely. For disaster recovery, we use fault tolerance through VMware and manage DR sites through vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation. Backup solutions are primarily on Commvault and other platforms. For complete disaster recovery, we maintain local recovery, file motion, vMotion for local server transfer, and manage replicas using additional tools. It is not a complete VMware stack due to high costs. The price is extremely high. According to my assessment, if they reduce prices and improve support, their infrastructure sales could increase by two or three times. On a scale of 1-10, I rate VMware Software Defined Data Center an 8.
Category and Contract Lead - ICT at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Feb 7, 2024
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.
You have to learn a lot before using this product, but once you learn it, there are a lot of advantages. The main problem is design, not implementation. When it comes to this type of solution, there are not very many people who are skilled in managing it. For example, I could say that in Italy we have four or five. I definitely recommend this product for others but, again, in some cases, there is a lot of work to do. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
You can make better use of all your resources, reduce the cost of energy use, and complete balance between all your needs and all your resources through Defined Data Centre. I rate it a ten out of ten.
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I would highly recommend it because it reduces your footprints in terms of hardware utilization and you can efficiently utilize your resources. And with the minimum, you can do the maximum including the network virtualization, service virtualization, and network layers. I would rate VMware Software Defined Data Center a ten out of ten.
IT Infrastructure Strategy, Tranformation, & DC Operations, Data Science at KFMC
Real User
Mar 30, 2020
It is great product. In the end, we are happy to have a stable infrastructure for our team and DevOps. I recommend going with VMware for all of your critical applications.
We have been using solutions from VMware for fifteen years. This is a solution that I absolutely recommend for others. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Technical Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Oct 13, 2019
We are not using the latest version, and we plan on doing some upgrades. This is a solution that I recommend. It is really stable and rewarding. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We use the on-premises deployment model. I would recommend the solution. It is one of the best in the market. It's very easy. They also offer knowledge right on their website, which is very helpful. If anyone has issues they can refer to the knowledge base for recommendations. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
It is hard to find things that this product needs. Whatever we have needed, we found it. We are completely satisfied with this product. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
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...
We are direct partners and not using any marketplace. We are working on software-defined SDDC but not using it 100% completely. For disaster recovery, we use fault tolerance through VMware and manage DR sites through vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation. Backup solutions are primarily on Commvault and other platforms. For complete disaster recovery, we maintain local recovery, file motion, vMotion for local server transfer, and manage replicas using additional tools. It is not a complete VMware stack due to high costs. The price is extremely high. According to my assessment, if they reduce prices and improve support, their infrastructure sales could increase by two or three times. On a scale of 1-10, I rate VMware Software Defined Data Center an 8.
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.
You have to learn a lot before using this product, but once you learn it, there are a lot of advantages. The main problem is design, not implementation. When it comes to this type of solution, there are not very many people who are skilled in managing it. For example, I could say that in Italy we have four or five. I definitely recommend this product for others but, again, in some cases, there is a lot of work to do. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Overall, I would rate VMware Software Defined Data Center as five out of ten.
I recommend VMware Software Defined Data Center to others and rate it a nine out of ten.
You can make better use of all your resources, reduce the cost of energy use, and complete balance between all your needs and all your resources through Defined Data Centre. I rate it a ten out of ten.
I would highly recommend it because it reduces your footprints in terms of hardware utilization and you can efficiently utilize your resources. And with the minimum, you can do the maximum including the network virtualization, service virtualization, and network layers. I would rate VMware Software Defined Data Center a ten out of ten.
I would advise others to do proper network designing and sizing prior to the deployment. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
It is great product. In the end, we are happy to have a stable infrastructure for our team and DevOps. I recommend going with VMware for all of your critical applications.
This is a good solution that can do many things. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
This is a very nice solution. I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.
We have been using solutions from VMware for fifteen years. This is a solution that I absolutely recommend for others. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
We are not using the latest version, and we plan on doing some upgrades. This is a solution that I recommend. It is really stable and rewarding. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We use the on-premises deployment model. I would recommend the solution. It is one of the best in the market. It's very easy. They also offer knowledge right on their website, which is very helpful. If anyone has issues they can refer to the knowledge base for recommendations. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
It is hard to find things that this product needs. Whatever we have needed, we found it. We are completely satisfied with this product. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.