I recommend the solution. I rate it nine out of ten.

Overall, I would rate VMware Software Defined Data Center as five 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.

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.

I recommend VMware Software Defined Data Center to others and rate it a nine 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 will recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I personally like to do a proof of concept, build it out, play with the product. That's how I would suggest a colleague evaluate a new product.

Do your homework, go through documentation, talk to the support engineers, sales support, pre-sales support, and just to get a good feel for what is involved. Again, doing a proof of concept helps in figuring out those issues which may come up in production.

I would advise others to do proper network designing and sizing prior to the deployment.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

The most important thing to look for in selecting a vendor is total cost of ownership.

As for advice, you probably are already, but if your aren't, you need to be looking at SDDC because it's just such an easier, faster, safer, cheaper way of deploying a datacenter.

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.

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 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 very nice solution.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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.

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.

When looking at vendors, I would say that we wouldn't be working with VMware if they weren't the industry leader in virtualization. So, reputation for one. With that comes service. We have different consulting groups that work with our company, but just to have heard from the vendor, themselves, that's very important just because they are the experts on the subject.

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.

Talk to the sales team, have them come and bring their team out, go through what the requirements are and they'll come up with a solution.

Just like anything else in IT, something you must deal with is the limitation. That's why you must have your requirements before you come up with a solution. You have to talk, get all the requirements that you need and you can find your expansion plan so that your requirements don't outgrow your solution.

When selecting a vendor, the most important aspects would be support and durability, that they stand behind the product. I have been working with EMC for years, and they have always stood behind their products. VMware does the same thing. They're owned by the same people, so that makes sense. Every software product and hardware product is going to have issues. I don't care who they are or how good they are. It's how they stand behind the product. When my sales engineers and sales guys come in and tell me this will do something, if there are some problems, the way they stand behind the product is really what makes a difference for me.

If you're starting out and you're looking to go to a software defined data center, which is really the way of the future, then you have to look at all the aspects of what something like VMware offers. They cover from soup to nuts. So you can have one vendor, one management plane, one orchestration plane. I think that makes a big difference. I think that would be my big driver towards it, because it is going to probably cost you a little more than some other solutions. But I think the combination of all those things, the operational efficiencies, make up for the difference.

If you've never dealt with it then I would get your people trained. That's a good starter. And you could certainly bring in VMware's professional services to help you start out if you don't have any expertise at this point. It's probably the best way to get started. Get your people trained, and bring in some professional services to help you get started because they have packs to help you get started with things.

It's important that you understand who you will consider being the gold standard or the trusted partner in this whole ecosystem. Who are the other people looking to work with this? Who is looking to rule the environment? Who is leading the charge? These are important questions to consider.

I don't think everything is perfect about it. But it's very simple, very easy to use, it's very straightforward.

As far as advice to another company about implementing this product, I'd ask them what rock they've been hiding under. Learn exactly what you need to be able to do and accomplish from a virtualization standpoint, and just research the pros and the cons of doing this kind of thing. You've got plenty of information online to help out. Also, reach out, there's all kinds of companies and solutions.

It's a great product. I like it and we've been using it for years. Once you get the hang of it, you will enjoy it. It's fun to learn.

Do your homework. Make sure that it's going to work for your environment. We were trying to decrease our hardware and were finding the easy way to do so. Thus, it just depends on what it is that you are looking to do in your environment and what is the best option to choose. Once you do your research, you can talk to people who have already implemented it and go from there.

Sit down and work out what you want to do before you actually try and move your move to SDDC.

This is a good solution that can do many things.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

You should really investigate VMware.