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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/alternatives/) # VMware Tanzu Review From $995/year 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews ## Overview VMware Tanzu 4.2 [(17)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $995.00 per feature per year Top Alternatives ### About VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu enables organizations to get modern apps securely to production fast and adapt quickly to changing business, customer, and security requirements. VMware Tanzu is used by software developers, platform engineers & architects and IT operations in mid-sized and large enterprises in financial services, retail, government and many other industries. With VMware Tanzu developers can build apps using pre-approved, secure paths to production to free them to spend more time coding versus managing toolsets. Developers can build a stream of containers that run on any compliant Kubernetes framework or VM across any cloud and automatically deliver modernized workloads. IT can use the ecosystem to optimize existing apps and create cloud-native apps simultaneously. IT Administrators can secure the container lifecycle, validate cluster compliance, and maintain the policy, networking and health of containers. VMware Tanzu also enables IT to enhance security through traffic encryption, evaluate the performance of workloads and control the service mesh lifecycle. Do you work for VMware Tanzu? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-tanzu/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## VMware Tanzu User Interface ## Popular VMware Tanzu Alternatives Main Product VMware Tanzu 4.2 [(17)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.12Ease of use - 3.69Value for money - 3.44Customer support - 4.18Functionality Pricing Starting at $995.00 per year Alternative Product [New Relic](https://www.softwareadvice.com/devops/new-relic-one-profile/) 4.5 [(202)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/devops/new-relic-one-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.21Ease of use - 3.96Value for money - 4.20Customer support - 4.55Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Jira](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/atlassian-jira-profile/) 4.4 [(15504)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/atlassian-jira-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.08Ease of use - 4.28Value for money - 4.20Customer support - 4.44Functionality Pricing Starting at $7.91 per month Alternative Product [Dynatrace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/) 4.6 [(86)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.33Ease of use - 4.27Value for money - 4.19Customer support - 4.48Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Scalingo](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/500547-Scalingo/) 4.9 [(27)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/500547-Scalingo/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.81Ease of use - 4.48Value for money - 4.81Customer support - 4.30Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [BuildPiper](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/buildpiper-profile/) 4.2 [(13)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/buildpiper-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.38Ease of use - 4.33Value for money - 4.69Customer support - 4.38Functionality Pricing Starting at $25.00 per month ## VMware Tanzu Pricing and Plans Starting price: $995.00 per year Free Trial Free Version Basic $995.00 per feature, per year No plan information available ## VMware Tanzu Features - Popular features found in DevOps Collaboration Tools Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration Dashboard Release Management - More features of VMware Tanzu Access Controls/Permissions Activity Dashboard Activity Tracking Alerts/Notifications API Application Management Audit Management Authentication Bottleneck Identification Change Management Cloud Computing Compatibility Testing Compliance Management Configurable Workflow Configuration Management Container Scanning Database Support Data Import/Export Data Security Debugging Deployment Management Diagnostic Tools Document Management Encryption Event Logs For Developers Forms Management Graphical User Interface Incident Management Integrated Development Environment Issue Management Issue Tracking Lifecycle Management Load Testing Monitoring Performance Metrics Policy Management Portfolio Management Pre-built Templates Real-Time Data Real-Time Monitoring Real-Time Notifications Reporting/Analytics Resource Management Role-Based Permissions Rules-Based Workflow Runtime Container Security Server Monitoring Software Development Source Control Task Management Third-Party Integrations Uptime Reporting User Management Version Control Web/Mobile App Development Workflow Management ## VMware Tanzu Integrations vSphere Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## VMware Tanzu User Reviews ## VMware Tanzu customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 17 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 6 reviews (35%) - 4 stars: 10 reviews (59%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (6%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 3.7/5 - Customer support: 3.4/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 --- ### The key to enterprise adoption of devops principles - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jürgen S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Tanzu products are the initial spark to start e devops transformation of big companies. Its the core devops platform #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros They are focused on developers and their needs and make clouds easy consumable #### Cons The products are quite expensive but are worth their price. TAP is not that mature as TASbut that will change over time #### Reasons for choosing VMware Tanzu Because of its open source nature --- ### Opinion on Tanzu - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The integration with our existing VMWare products #### Cons The configuration and initial setup is quite hard and requires a lot of manual configuration #### Reasons for choosing VMware Tanzu Our company wasn't ready yet to go to the cloud for our k8s implementation --- ### A lot of trial and error on rolling it out, wasted over a year to get some basic clusters - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Boris J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Not much at the moment, still waiting to get some value out of it #### Cons It 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). --- ### A solid PaaS solution provided by Tanzu. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pawel P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. As a benefit we've managed to support growing number of developers and project with the same PE staff capacity. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the consistency and providing all the required tools by a single vendor. #### Cons Documentation is still a weak point, especially after mergind Pivotal and VMware. #### Reasons for choosing VMware Tanzu COnsistency with the underlying platform and single support contact. --- ### Most Developer Friendly Product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Simmy X. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Feature 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. #### Cons Pricing 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. #### Reasons for choosing VMware Tanzu Not applicable --- ### vSphere with Tanzu - implementation in PoC and Prod environment - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mateusz R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy 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) #### Cons Sometimes 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 --- ### The capabilities are there. It is up to you to use them. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Joe H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros TAS is an extremely stable product. TAP is taking the best of open source software and providing the glue that makes it more turnkey. #### Cons Their 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. --- ### Common customer questions for small and mid range environments - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Christoph V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The 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 ) #### Cons As 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. #### Reasons 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 --- ### A solid foundation for enhancing your developer expirience - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Thomas R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Tanzu 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. #### Cons I 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. --- ### Tanzu - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Mission Control and the policy engine + cli #### Cons Integration was going well, more labs or testing of the product would be nice --- Showing 1 - 10 of 17 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/reviews/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice