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."You can scale the solution if you need to."
"The solution is certainly stable."
"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."
"Azure Stack is very stable."
"Technical support is quick and responsive."
"Azure Stack integrates well with Microsoft. It's also good for transitioning from an on-premise or hybrid setup to the cloud. It's seamless."
"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."
"The most valuable features are related to managing Kubernetes cluster nodes."
"The solution does not occupy much space."
"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 documentation is very good."
"The higher availability, the DRS, and its connection with NetApp are the most valuable features."
"The product gives us a follow-up on the infrastructure environment."
"The most valuable feature is the strong support. Also, the H-Appliance feature that supports MPLS is very important to us."
"The most valuable feature is its central management system."
"It has good performance and flexibility."
"Normally, in many countries, especially in the Middle East, there are government regulations for information technology itself. If government organizations want to host the cloud, they cannot take it from Microsoft directly; they must go through the local internet service providers, ISPs, or cloud solution providers locally."
"Overall support needs improvement because they are not agile across services."
"There are limits to the bandwidth and sizing of the images."
"It does not give you a complete, production-ready setup."
"The challenge in Azure Stack begins at an individual level when you try to monitor every service from Azure Stack that gets consumed."
"For some years, Azure has been working on Synapse. It's their big footprint on the analytics stack. It's a little bit heavy right now in the sense that there are too many components and it's too complex."
"It might be beneficial if Microsoft could introduce a more cost-effective data lake feature within their product."
"Azure Stack is relatively new and lacks the features compared to public Azure."
"There's quite a lot of uncertainty at the moment regarding the solution following the Broadcom acquisition of VMware."
"We would like to see more analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning capabilities in their products."
"We would like to have active-active replication."
"It would be an improvement to have more functionality with hardware products."
"The interface should be improved because when there are many alarms, it is difficult to figure out what the error is."
"The most recent web-based interface has given us some problems."
"The solution needs performance optimization of the VMware IO technology."
"It would be great to have compatibility with vendors like UCS."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 56 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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