All VMware Tanzu Reviews
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Simmy
Financial Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2023
Most Developer Friendly Product
Very happy with TAS overall from Platform and Developer perspective. Having challenges in adopting TAP and TKGI overall due to the additional complexity involved from app development all the way to release and day-2 operations
PROSFeature rich, Developer First mindset, Ease of deployment and releases, Long Term Support versions for more conservative and quarterly releases for more aggressive. Baked in Security.
CONSPricing Model for different products varies drastically. Certificate management not very easy. Compatibility with other VMware products like ESX, NSX in addition to some of the Cloud offerings.
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
Not applicable
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2023
Opinion on Tanzu
Our software teams now have a k8s platform on which to deploy their applications moving away from the traditional VM based deployments giving them more freedom in technology choices and also giving them more control over what they deploy
PROSThe integration with our existing VMWare products
CONSThe configuration and initial setup is quite hard and requires a lot of manual configuration
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
Our company wasn't ready yet to go to the cloud for our k8s implementation
Boris
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2023
A lot of trial and error on rolling it out, wasted over a year to get some basic clusters
Not much at the moment, still waiting to get some value out of it
CONSIt breaks all the time, stability is alpha at max, would never recommend it in this stage. There is no balance between new features added (really high) and stability (non-existent).
Pawel
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
A solid PaaS solution provided by Tanzu.
As a benefit we've managed to support growing number of developers and project with the same PE staff capacity.
PROSI like the consistency and providing all the required tools by a single vendor.
CONSDocumentation is still a weak point, especially after mergind Pivotal and VMware.
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
COnsistency with the underlying platform and single support contact.
Mateusz
Telecommunications, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
vSphere with Tanzu - implementation in PoC and Prod environment
The overall experience is great. This is a promising and developing solution. Of course, there are some things that can be done differently. However, most of the time, implementation, migration and maintenance of the vSphere with Tanzu platform are at a satisfactory level.Project in my company is still growing and new implementation are on the way - for example, deployment and vSphere with Tanzu with NSX-T.
PROSEasy deployment process of the vSphere with Tanzu. I don't see any major problems with integration to good known DevOps tools like: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Vault. New platform customers are happy to use Tanzu environment. Developers don't need to make big changes in CI/CD pipeline to deploy application at TKGs clusters. Tanzu platform is regularly updated which is an advantage. I like few different ways to deploy and configure clusters (for example TMC, shell script, Jenkins pipeline etc)
CONSSometimes I see lack of documentation for some configurations, for example: - I don't see any mention in docs to which sites I need to open network traffic to run Lite/Conformance tests in the TMC;- Configuration of the Fluentbit with Elasticsearch is a bit tricky. I spent many hours with support and by myself to configure it properly;- Sometimes support need much time to resolve issues or need to investigate problem with an engineering team
Thomas
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2023
A solid foundation for enhancing your developer expirience
VMware Tanzu enables our developers to focus on app developed and bringing new features quickly from dev to production in a standardized, secure and compliant way.
PROSTanzu is a very good solution for large enterprises with platform teams that can create golden paths for developers. These golden paths provide an easy way for DevOps teams to spend more time on creating value for their products than on boilerplate building blocks like wiring your service with logging, databases, etc.
CONSI think the Tanzu product suite is only suitable for big enterprises that can afford dedicated platform team for taking care of the Tanzu platform because it is a quite complex setup.
Osman
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
VMware-Tanzu_01
Somebody who wants to use it should take a training by expert who knows it well.
PROSVMware Tanzu helps to run and manage multiple K8S cluster.
CONSIt is complex and somebody who wants to use it take a trainning by expert who knows it well.
Jürgen
Verified reviewer
Information Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
The key to enterprise adoption of devops principles
Tanzu products are the initial spark to start e devops transformation of big companies. Its the core devops platform
PROSThey are focused on developers and their needs and make clouds easy consumable
CONSThe products are quite expensive but are worth their price. TAP is not that mature as TASbut that will change over time
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
Because of its open source nature
Sushant
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
"Secured Container Orchestration Technology from VMware "
I am working with VMware products from 3-4 years. what they provide is surely helps organization to smoothly run their Infrastructure . VMware Tanzu is one of that products that helps your app virtualization technology work smoothly .It helps you deploy Apps with CI CD pipelines.It can easily monitor microservices .
PROSit supports both public and private clouds. if you have existing VMware V-sphere environment then you can easily deploy this technology. support for Tanzu is also good from from VMware as this is new technology .
CONSWe have purchased only Tanzu license as we have existing setup with licensed product from VMware .But if you have deploy it from scratch then you need to buy all VMware Licenses. that is Costly in pricing .Small organization may get this prices high to setup.It is very complex to deploy , VMware Team helps you deploying the product.
Mariusz
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Vsphere and Tanzu
Integration between virtualization and containers.
PROSAs using vSphere, integration with Tanzu was very easy for us.
CONSAs for now, I see no flaws or issues in Tanzu.
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
Because using vsphere already.
Joe
Insurance, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
The capabilities are there. It is up to you to use them.
I've driven the adoption of many different technologies within my company over the years. I brought in virtualization using VMware GSX before ESX. I've championed and standardized APM has a tool for application health and troubleshooting. I've been a staunch proponent of ITSM tools( you probably know the name ) Tanzu has been without a doubt the most rapidly and fully embraced platform in the company.
PROSTAS is an extremely stable product. TAP is taking the best of open source software and providing the glue that makes it more turnkey.
CONSTheir pricing metrics are all wrong. That is to say that the basis for pricing the product is not aligned with the individual components nor with business outcomes. VMware has been very open to soliciting feedback on this and we will see if it improves.
Christoph
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2023
Common customer questions for small and mid range environments
I have a great time explaining the tech and the different tools / software to the customer. They are most likely really interested into Tanzu and want to know more. Getting it into a test environment is most of the time harder that expected.
PROSThe protfolio has a wide range of products which the customer can use to build their ideal platform. Even open source projects are directly available and common use for most of the projects ( like Grafana, Harbor )
CONSAs I said in the "Pro" part of this form, the complexity can also be a contra point as most of the admins just want to run Kubernetes in their cluster with some monitoring and resource capability. Creating small test environments is to complex for them or take to much time.
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
Long time vSphere admin. Want to expand the currently running vSphere 7.0.3 environment and have some incompatibility issues resolved with Rancher
Vijaya
Banking, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Tanzu a programmer friendly solution
A solution that is reliable and maintained with ease, we are overall a happy customer.
PROSTanzu encapsulates Containerized solutions tailored to for programmer needs. The ease of operation and thorough release management gives sense of reliability.
CONSAutosys, autoscaling, blue- green deployments have been challenging and not consistent to be used by our customers.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2024
Herrameintas confiables de Contenerizacion y DevOps
Mi experiencia ha sido implementando Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
PROSUna vez configurados los productos proporciona una infraestructura confibale y estable.
CONSUna de las desventajas que pude percatarme es que para poder realizar una implementacion de los productos es muy compleja y esta muy ligada a la infraestrcutura VMWARE.
Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu
En este caso se solicito por parte de un cliente por esa razon se procedio con la implementacion.
Jarosław
Computer Software, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2023
Tanzu - make it easy
The most valuable elements from Tanzu are easy to use and easy to integrate.
CONSTanzu is slide opinionated that can be taken by some developers as disadvantage
Anonymous
11-50 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Tanzu
Mission Control and the policy engine + cli
CONSIntegration was going well, more labs or testing of the product would be nice