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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/paas/vmware-tanzu-profile/alternatives/) # VMware Tanzu User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 17 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Customer support: 3.4/5 - Value for money: 3.7/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 ### 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%) ## VMware Tanzu customer reviews Showing reviews 1-17 of 17 (page 1). ### 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 --- ### Herrameintas confiables de Contenerizacion y DevOps - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Mi experiencia ha sido implementando Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Una vez configurados los productos proporciona una infraestructura confibale y estable. #### Cons Una 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. #### Reasons for choosing VMware Tanzu En este caso se solicito por parte de un cliente por esa razon se procedio con la implementacion. --- ### Tanzu a programmer friendly solution - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Vijaya V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - 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. A solution that is reliable and maintained with ease, we are overall a happy customer. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Tanzu encapsulates Containerized solutions tailored to for programmer needs. The ease of operation and thorough release management gives sense of reliability. #### Cons Autosys, autoscaling, blue- green deployments have been challenging and not consistent to be used by our customers. --- ### VMware-Tanzu_01 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Osman D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Somebody who wants to use it should take a training by expert who knows it well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros VMware Tanzu helps to run and manage multiple K8S cluster. #### Cons It is complex and somebody who wants to use it take a trainning by expert who knows it well. --- ### For your cloud native needs Tanzu brings a big winner - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bradley W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. VMware's Tanzu brings a super solid service mesh backed by a very stable and tested Kubernetes engine. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros VMware's Tanzu was as expected a very polished product bringing together a k8s engine, service mesh and the latest container service interface for all your storage requirements. #### Cons Weighing up the cost against opensource products like open stack and free flavours of k8s and the Tanzu product and VMware support needs some analysis. --- ### "Secured Container Orchestration Technology from VMware " - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sushant G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 . #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros it 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 . #### Cons We 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. --- ### Tanzu - make it easy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jarosław G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly 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: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The most valuable elements from Tanzu are easy to use and easy to integrate. #### Cons Tanzu is slide opinionated that can be taken by some developers as disadvantage --- ### Vsphere and Tanzu - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mariusz N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Integration between virtualization and containers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros As using vSphere, integration with Tanzu was very easy for us. #### Cons As for now, I see no flaws or issues in Tanzu. #### Reasons for choosing VMware Tanzu Because using vsphere already. --- VMware Tanzu Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice