Broadcom (VMware) Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Data virtualization technology is based on the execution of distributed data management processing, primarily for queries, against multiple heterogeneous data sources, and federation of query results into virtual views. This is followed by the consumption of these virtual views by applications, query/reporting tools, message-oriented middleware or other data management infrastructure components. Data virtualization can be used to create virtualized and integrated views of data in-memory, rather than executing data movement and physically storing integrated views in a target data structure. It provides a layer of abstraction above the physical implementation of data, to simplify querying logic. (Retired as of Apr-22-2026).

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VMware vCloud Director

Broadcom (VMware)

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I've been using vCloud for about 5 years now, and the overall experience has been positive. My company releases 2 versions of our software each year, and vCloud has been paramount for our product rep team, as they're constantly utilizing vClouds virtual environments to "check out" templates with different versions for testing/troubleshooting. As an end user, i think the UI is pretty intuitive, and easy to use, and the creation of vApp templates is very beneficial for us. 

Most frustrations stem from system performance. You need to be patient, as system performance can be slow at times. Copying/pasting can be challenging as well, and its not always consistent,  which is inefficient. 

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Infrastructure Engineer

vcloud director has been a tie in with our vrealize automation suit and our vcenter platforms. Its used to help manage and maintain the the automated VM deployment for our end users for testing their apps

Senior Officer 

VMware vCloud Director is an excellent tool to orchestrate and automate quick system deployment and work very well with the VMware virtualization layer - vSphere

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