We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and VMware Software Defined Data Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Azure Stack is like a hybrid model with a CI/CD pipeline. The IaaS and PaaS model works well with a hybrid type of connectivity."
"This solution is highly scalable, with both direct and indirect users numbering over fifty thousand within my business."
"If a user wants to upgrade Office 365 from any of the packages, there is no disruption happening during migration, and the data is kept safe. There's no loss of data."
"The most valuable thing about Azure Stack is that it provides a unified control panel for managing cloud services."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment for services such as SSH, creating a web site, and Azure billing services to measure the consumption of resources."
"The best thing about this product is that it is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The solution pairs well with other MS services and saves us a lot of money."
"The stability of this solution is great."
"Using this solution will provide you with a lot of features for working with multiple VMware hosts."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vSphere."
"It is very easy to do technology refreshments, patching, and upgrades with almost zero downtime. Its easy to bring servers online within few minutes."
"The most valuable features are server virtualization and network virtualization."
"The documentation is very good."
"he ease of deploying virtual machines is the solution's most valuable feature. Moving virtual machines from one post to another is easy. Within minutes you can easily deploy your virtual machines and deploy your applications as well."
"The feature set and the maturity of the product are most valuable."
"Azure Stack could be improved with more integration, governance tools, monitor tools, and lift and shift tools."
"Technical support is very poor. When we meet Microsoft in the coming weeks to discuss expansion, we'll be speaking to them directly about this."
"I think the monitoring tools needs some improvement."
"PaaS is not ready because they are only offering MS SQL as a service, web applications as a service, and containers as a service."
"I feel that Azure Stack has so many different variables which are not very clear...In general, the initial setup phase of Azure Stack is an area with concern that needs improvement."
"In some cases, we've seen that some financial software is not working correctly or compatible with Azure Stack. Many companies build this, but some third-party products may not be compatible with Azure Stack. So these are some areas of improvement."
"They can provide more integration with other services, such as components, open source, because I use these services."
"It might be beneficial if Microsoft could introduce a more cost-effective data lake feature within their product."
"There could be more insights for hyper-cloud solutions in terms of enhanced configuration."
"The automation of the solution needs improvement. We should be able to automate some processes."
"It would be an improvement to have more functionality with hardware products."
"We would like to have active-active replication."
"The storage utilization needs to be improved. It is not a perfect product. It needs to be more secure, and it needs more aesthetics."
"The solution must provide more features."
"Its pricing could be better, and there could be more integration."
"There's quite a lot of uncertainty at the moment regarding the solution following the Broadcom acquisition of VMware."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 61 reviews while VMware Software Defined Data Center is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 29 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while VMware Software Defined Data Center is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Data Center writes " Stable and Scalable data solution with good customer service ". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware Software Defined Data Center is most compared with . See our Azure Stack vs. VMware Software Defined Data Center report.
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