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."The user interface is nice and very simple to use."
"It's more reliable, secure, and easy to deploy. It's much more stable as a platform."
"The setup is very straightforward and it's quite stable."
"The most valuable features are related to managing Kubernetes cluster nodes."
"The stability is good. We haven't had any issues with the viability or scalability. It's been good so far."
"When we engage Azure Stack, it's very easy to lift and shift. That's why we've been successful because we can be clear and fast in understanding workflows from the customer."
"I appreciate that all the tools are available natively within Azure. It's all set up nicely. It's all minor."
"It is probably the best solution out there."
"The solution does not occupy much space."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration because everything is available on a single pane of glass."
"The product gives us a follow-up on the infrastructure environment."
"The most valuable feature is its central management system."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vSphere."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SDDC Manager."
"Bare Metal Ethernet SAN "dramatically improved" performance, stability, and reliability of the VMware Healthcare Solution Architecture."
"Using this solution will provide you with a lot of features for working with multiple VMware hosts."
"The challenge in Azure Stack begins at an individual level when you try to monitor every service from Azure Stack that gets consumed."
"The solution is not user friendly. I'd prefer to move over to AWS, which is much easier in this sense."
"Having more options and customization would be an improvement."
"Azure Stack needs to improve integrations."
"It would be better to have more services and functionality when it comes to database software and computing."
"I would only recommend this solution to smaller organizations like ours because I cannot really speculate what big issues that the bigger organizations will face."
"Microsoft is changing the Azure Stack interface all the time, so it's sometimes hard to find the functionality or the service you're looking for. A feature was in one place and now it has moved somewhere else."
"There are limits to the bandwidth and sizing of the images."
"We have some Intel machines and some AMD machines, are we cannot mix these within the same cluster."
"The most recent web-based interface has given us some problems."
"The main problem that we are facing with this solution is vSAN stability."
"The storage utilization needs to be improved. It is not a perfect product. It needs to be more secure, and it needs more aesthetics."
"I would recommend bundling so the end customer can utilize all the automation and orchestration features with SDC."
"It would be great to have compatibility with vendors like UCS."
"The automation of the solution needs improvement. We should be able to automate some processes."
"The solution must provide more features."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 58 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 Google Anthos, 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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