• Software Categories
    View All
  • Company
    About UsVendors
Software Advice Logo
Home

/

Container Security Software

/

VMware Tanzu

Overview
ReviewsAlternatives

VMware Tanzu 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee.

How Software Advice ensures transparency

Software Advice lists all providers across its website—not just those that pay us—so that users can make informed purchase decisions. Users can talk to our advisors for free to receive software recommendations matching their needs. Software providers pay us for sponsored profiles to reach users interested in their products.

How Software Advice verifies reviews

Software Advice carefully verified over 2 million reviews to bring you authentic software experiences from real users. Our human moderators verify that reviewers are real people and that reviews are authentic. They use leading tech to analyze text quality and to detect plagiarism and generative AI.

Independent research methodology

Researchers at Software Advice use a mix of verified reviews, independent research, and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or talk to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology.

On this page
  • Overview
  • Pricing and Plans
  • Features
  • Integrations
  • User Reviews

Overview

VMware Tanzu
VMware Tanzu
4.2
(17)

Pricing

Starting at $995.00 per year

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.

VMware Tanzu Screenshots

0
0
1
2
3
4
5

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 Container Security
      Container Isolation
      Container Scanning
      Continuous Integration
      For DevSecOps
      Policy Management
      Runtime Container Security
    • 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
      Collaboration Tools
      Compatibility Testing
      Compliance Management
      Configurable Workflow
      Configuration Management
      Continuous Deployment
      Dashboard
      Database Support
      Data Import/Export
      Data Security
      Debugging
      Deployment Management
      Diagnostic Tools
      Document Management
      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
      Portfolio Management
      Pre-built Templates
      Real-Time Data
      Real-Time Monitoring
      Real-Time Notifications
      Release Management
      Reporting/Analytics
      Resource Management
      Role-Based Permissions
      Rules-Based Workflow
      Server Monitoring
      Source Control
      Task Management
      Third-Party Integrations
      Uptime Reporting
      User Management
      Version Control
      Web/Mobile App Development
      Workflow Management

    VMware Tanzu Integrations

    vSphere
    vSphere

    VMware Tanzu User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.2

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    35%

    4

    59%

    3

    0%

    2

    6%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    4.1

    Value for money

    3.7

    Customer support

    3.4

    Functionality

    4.2

    Jürgen's profile

    Jürgen S.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Services

    5001-10000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2023

    The key to enterprise adoption of devops principles

    4

    Tanzu products are the initial spark to start e devops transformation of big companies. Its the core devops platform

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    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

    Read More

    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Hospital & Health Care

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2023

    Opinion on Tanzu

    4

    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

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    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

    Read More

    BJ

    Boris J.

    Verified reviewer

    Health, Wellness and Fitness

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2023

    A lot of trial and error on rolling it out, wasted over a year to get some basic clusters

    2

    Ratings Breakdown

    2
    Ease of use
    2
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    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).

    Read More

    PP

    Pawel P.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2023

    A solid PaaS solution provided by Tanzu.

    4

    As a benefit we've managed to support growing number of developers and project with the same PE staff capacity.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    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.

    Read More

    BW

    Bradley W.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2024

    For your cloud native needs Tanzu brings a big winner

    5

    VMware's Tanzu brings a super solid service mesh backed by a very stable and tested Kubernetes engine.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    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.

    Read More

    SX

    Simmy X.

    Verified reviewer

    Financial Services

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2023

    Most Developer Friendly Product

    5

    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

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    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

    Read More

    MR

    Mateusz R.

    Verified reviewer

    Telecommunications

    5001-10000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2023

    vSphere with Tanzu - implementation in PoC and Prod environment

    4

    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

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    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

    Read More

    JH

    Joe H.

    Verified reviewer

    Insurance

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2023

    The capabilities are there. It is up to you to use them.

    4

    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

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    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.

    Read More

    CV

    Christoph V.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    51-200 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2023

    Common customer questions for small and mid range environments

    4

    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

    3
    Ease of use
    2
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    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

    Read More

    TR

    Thomas R.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    5001-10000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2023

    A solid foundation for enhancing your developer expirience

    4

    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

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    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.

    Read More

    Showing 1 - 10 of 17 Reviews
    See All Reviews

    See what companies are saying about Software Advice