The solution can scale.

The stability is good.

You can grow in much smaller pieces through hyper-converged, and that's true of all systems. For my customers who had converged infrastructure, when they needed to add just a little bit of access capacity, it was a couple hundred thousand dollars at a minimum to add just a little capacity. This is due to the fact that they had to buy a bigger chunk of capacity, even though they only needed a little bit. Where, with hyper-converged or Cloud Foundation or Nutanix or whomever, you could grow much smaller chunks. You can grow in $20,000 increments versus $150,000 increments.

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.

It gives you a very beautiful display on the vSphere dashboard, which you can use to configure and generate reports. And, with the vSphere dashboard, you also have your monitoring tools integrated with them.

So, for example, if you have x number of servers running in your capacity, your monitoring tools, like Logic Monitor and SolarWinds, can also be integrated into the system to generate reports and ensure you're keeping a tab on the infrastructure capacity, health, and any potential issues that might come up in the customer's environment. 

So, the integration of the monitoring tools in the VMware vSphere dashboard itself is one of those features that customers like very much. 

Secondly, you can schedule certain VMs from the vSphere dashboard itself. 

Customers are quite interested in the capabilities within the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) layer that allow for spinning up and scheduling virtual machines in a customer's environment, essentially forming a private cloud. This scheduling capability enables us to power down non-critical, non-production virtual machines, which is a key aspect of managing a private cloud where your critical applications run. 

Unlike the constant operation of all virtual machines, the software-defined data center concept allows for cost optimization similar to what we see with hyperscalers like Azure, AWS, and GCP. 

With VMware VCF Services, customers can manage their VMs efficiently, ensuring cost optimization and benefiting from the private cloud's value in reducing spend and achieving faster time to market. It also supports interoperability among various monitoring tools a customer might have.

Moreover, VMware stands out in cloud computing by providing top-notch virtualization software and cloud foundation services. However, customers often inquire about 'as a service' model offerings from System Integrators (SIs) like us, where infrastructure is consumed on a pay-as-you-go basis, mimicking the billing model of public clouds. This is where vendors such as United Layer come into play.

Additionally, there are offerings from the likes of HPE and from Dell, like Dell Apex, which cater to specific needs in the cloud financial services sector. When preparing material for customers regarding their private cloud requirements, I consider offerings from OEM vendors and companies like Nutanix, which, despite being primarily a software company, partners with OEMs to tailor the foundation to specific hardware needs. They also offer their hypervisor layer, AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor), enhancing their position in the competitive infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market.

The competition is fierce in the on-premise private cloud foundation space, not to mention the public cloud sector, which often overshadows discussions about on-premise private cloud solutions. The market is filled with competitors vying to offer the most efficient, cost-effective solutions.

VMware remains a clear market leader due to its comprehensive portfolio and wide range of virtualization options. VMware has evolved to meet cloud migration needs, particularly for customers moving to AWS. 

VMware's collaboration with AWS allows for seamless rehosting of VMware virtual machines on AWS, requiring minimal customization.  

The product provides an ease of deployment. We can refer to the guide for a procedure to check all the prerequisites. Later, it gets implemented seamlessly.

The most valuable feature is the ease of migrating from on-premises infrastructure when transitioning away from older systems.

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

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.

I'm able to deploy many platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Azure on VMware.

The most valuable feature is the clustering load. We have high availability for this product.  

The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us.

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

The most important thing is the VMware platform. We have the product piece that completely simplifies different data center components. We have to compute, store, and network all under one data stack. Apart from this, starting from planning deployment, you have a planning seat, and then you have a cloud builder to bring up this composite stack. It's a complete solution, and you can deploy it easily. You need to upload only the build site in the cloud builder. The cloud builder will take care of bringing up the complete infrastructure. Then you have strategic management that will help handle password, license, configuration, and lifecycle management of these clusters.

On day zero, you have a template and a build cloud builder to bring up the template stack. It's a full-stack deployment. Then you have a conversation manager, lifecycle manager, password rights, and certificates- everything is taken care of.

The ability to auto-scale is the most valuable feature. Auto-scale with automation and business cases is valuable. I also like that VMs can create any cluster via click.

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is good.

Technical support is helpful.

The initial setup is easy and doesn't take much manpower. 

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 most valuable features in VMware Cloud Foundation are life cycle management and ease of use.

I like that VMware Cloud Foundation reduces both the installation and setup time from a matter of weeks to hours. VMware Cloud Foundation is easy to maintain.

The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the disaster recovery software.

The GUI makes this solution very easy to use.

In release 4.0 they have features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center. 

We are able to use the product to create virtual machines. We can automate everything. We automate implementation. When a customer has their own self-service portal, they can edit their services to do whatever they want. It is a really awesome and flexible feature.

The solution's most valuable feature is automatic configuration and password management.

You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge.

Because I don't use the program myself, I can't answer this.

The mission aspect of the solution is the most valuable feature.