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Favorable Review
Product: VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Chosen for Production Setups Despite Licensing Costs and Free Alternatives
Critical Review
Product: VMware Cloud Foundation
VCF Delivers Advanced Virtualization but Faces Criticism Over Cost and Support
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likes
The process of creating the VMs and managing them is quite easy. We are using multiple VMs and have created a virtual cluster across few servers. It shines in a microservice architecture setting. It fits so well for our usecase.
April 9, 2026
dislikes
Cost is the primary feature that I dislike about this product. VCF is significantly more expensive than other offerings by Broadcom. Under this new licensing model, Broadcom only offers multi-year commitments for their products and VCF is the only product that they will bill annually. All other products need to be paid up-front for the entire duration of the contract. Secondly, support for this product has not been stellar. We have only had to call support a handful of times, but the technicians that we have engaged with did not seem very knowledgeable about the product and only offered what seemed like rudimentary solutions. Finally, VCF with its additional components is quite a complex product and requires a lot of investment by system administrators to learn and configure. My team has gone to training several times in the time that we have utilized this product.
April 17, 2026
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