Features

Virtual Private Cloud

VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud is a scalable & secure public cloud infrastructure as a service solution that is built on the foundation of vSphere. Virtual Private Cloud offers compatibility with on premises vSphere workloads for a hybrid solution. vCloud Air solutions support both new and existing applications. Virtual Private Cloud is a solution for expanding your business capacity to accommodate geographic and seasonal needs without building out costly data centers and suffer from underutilized resources.

Features

  • Enterprise-Grade Network Virtualization
  • Direct Console Access
  • Custom Virtual Machine Sizing

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Dedicated Cloud

vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud is a single-tenant, physically isolated IaaS platform operated by VMware and compatible with on premises vSphere environments for true Hybrid functionality. Dedicated Cloud is a private cloud instance in the public cloud as it provides customers with their own compute nodes. This solution offers users the ability to assign resources to separate virtual data centers, each with individual user access controls. Dedicated Cloud includes compute resource reservation control.

Features

  • User control on the compute reservation and over-commitment selections
  • multiple virtual data centers and authorization controls
  • management tools across on- and offsite clouds

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vCloud Air Object Storage

VMware vCloud Air Object Storage offers a scalable cloud-based storage solution for unstructured data. The service provides global scale and has built-in resiliency. Users can scale up to petabytes and generate real-time intelligence from custom meta-data with vCloud Air Object Storage. VMware offers two distinct flavors of Object Storage, powered by EMC and powered by Google Cloud Platform.

Features

  • Distributed cloud-based disk storage for business continuity
  • Petabyte scale static data with custom metadata
  • Data repository for file and application data across multiple virtual machines and users

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Cloud Computing Block Storage

Users have access to the same storage volumes and can choose the highest performance SSD-Accelerated Storage or the more cost-conscious Standard Storage regardless if using Virtual Private Cloud, Dedicated Cloud or OnDemand as your compute solution. Both options allow for growth of virtual machine disks without downtime and the flexibility to migrate from one option to the other as needed.

Features

  • SSD-Accelerated Storage
  • Persistent block storage
  • Select storage tiers as needed

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Direct Connect

Direct Connect is a method of connecting into a vCloud Air instance beyond standard Internet-based traffic and IPsec VPN tunnels. It provides the ability to create a highthroughput, dedicated link from the data center, either located remotely or within the same colocation facility, into the instance of vCloud Air

Features

  • High throughput up to 1 or 10 Gbps
  • Dedicated path with low latency
  • Support for secure multi-point connections

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Hybrid Cloud Networking

Every vCloud Air service includes a connection to the Internet, one or more public IP addresses, and critical networking capabilities such as load balancing, a firewall, network address translation (NAT), and VPN connectivity via the Edge Gateway. Additionally, Advanced and Hybrid Networking Services are available to enhance the standard included networking capabilities. Direct Connect is also available for higher speed, secure private line connectivity or for cross-connecting to co-located infrastructures.

Features

  • Avoid the need to reconfigure applications by mirroring on-premises policies
  • Edge Gateway for high availability
  • vCloud Connector for hybrid cloud migration

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Hybrid Cloud Manager

Hybrid Cloud manager offers a way to extend on-premise vSphere powered data center into vCloud Air with vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager. The Hybrid Cloud Manager offers hybrid networking and bi-directional workload migration capabilities, simplifying on and off-premises resource integration and management of workloads.

Features

  • Bi-Directional Workload Portability
  • Data Center Extension through Layer 2 VPN
  • Offline Data Transfer

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vRealize

vRealize has three management tools: vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations Manager, and vRealize Air Compliance. Users can automate the end-to-end delivery and management of infrastructure and applications with vRealize Automation. The vRealize Operations Management pack for vCloud Air includes an embedded adapter that collects metrics, change events, and resource topology information from vCloud Air. vRealize Air Compliance allows users to gain real-time visibility into security and compliance of vSphere virtual infrastructure against the vSphere Hardening Guide as well as regulatory standards such as HIPAA and PCI.

Features

  • View both onsite and cloud workloads
  • Pre-built logical templates, services, and application components

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Security

Encryption:
  • In-Transit: Client-managed SSL VPN
  • At Rest: Third-party options
File Management:
  •  Role Based Access
  • Retention Time: 30 days
  • Data Destruction: Undisclosed
Audits & Compliance:

Performance

Performance:
  •  Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  • Guaranteed Uptime: 99% - 99.95%
  • Ease of Use: 4/5
Global Infrastructure:
  • Data Center Zones: 11
  • North America Locations: 7
  • Europe Locations: 2
  • Asia Locations: 1
Basic Support:
  •  Phone
  •  Chat
  •  Tutorials
  •  Premium Support Available

Pricing

Basic info

 

Monthly contracts

 
Monthly subscription
Dedicated Cloud Pricing
ServiceIncluded ResourcesPrice Per MonthPrice Per Unit
Compute240GB vRAM, 35GHz CPU $5,978$0.034 /GB/hr
Storage6TB SSD-Accelerated Storage$720$0.12 /GB/mo
Storage6TB Basic Storage$360 $0.06 /GB/mo
Bandwidth50Mbps$1,191$0.03 /Mbps/hr
Public IPsPriced per IP (3 included)$78$26 each
Vendor Pricing

Reviews

4.3
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Client Interview
Jun 24 2016

Leading Virtualization Tool with Top-Notch Support

5.0

Features: 
5.0
Ease of use: 
5.0
Support: 
5.0
Willing to refer: 
5.0
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the reviewer
 
Information Technology and Services
 
51-200 Employees
 
Evanston, Illinois
Senior Engineer and Virtualization Specialist, Stratosphere Networks
1
 
Verified
The Review
Recommendations

The user utilizes multiple cloud technologies, but has found best results with VMware. VWware is utilized by Stratosphere Networks to leverage migrations for clients and for virtualized environments. The user prefers to utilize VMware due to its availability and features. Additionally, they speak highly of VMware's support resources.

Can you please provide a brief description of your company and the role that you play there?

Stratosphere Networks is an IT managed service provider focused on delivering comprehensive technology services and solutions that meet and exceed the always-changing, diverse business needs for all types of industries.

I am a Senior Engineer and Virtualization Specialist.

What is the business challenge a company faces that initiates the need for this platform?

VMware was and is the leader in virtualization and distributed computing. When choosing which solution is best for my clients, I want to pursue a holistic approach and not just look at the product itself but also the ecosphere that was built around it. VMware has the best 3rd party applications and support, and is the gold standard in virtualization.

How does your company implement this platform?

We use VMware to leverage migrations and upgrades of our client’s software to either a cloud-based solution, a local install, or a hybrid of the two.

Why do you recommend that platform over other platforms?

Microsoft and Amazon are big competitors in the market, but there is a fundamental difference in how each company lets engineers use their software. For example, Hyper-V, which is Microsoft’s software to compete against VMware, is not the same Hyper-V Microsoft uses in its own datacenters for its own cloud platform (Azure). I believe that if you sell a service and an underlying software, you should “Eat your own dog food”, so to speak. Microsoft does not do this. Microsoft is always playing catch up with VMware. Microsoft’s is not as mature as VMware’s is.

If you used VMware's product at a local level, the cloud version is almost identical and you can even use the same local client to manage local servers and servers in the cloud.

Amazon uses a home brewed application based on an open source software, support is not as easy to get with Amazon.

How do the costs of utilizing this platform compare to other options?

The price is comparable to the competitors.

Were there any software features/tools that you were really impressed by?

High Availability, SAN integration, and backups are all outstanding features with VMware. Dell, HP, and IBM, all use industry standards to connect their servers to VMware, Hyper-V, and XenServer. On top of that they also spend more development time actively integrating VMware into their systems. Once again, the ecosphere is just more developed with VMware. Dell, HP, IBM, and many other companies tout their integration with VMware as a selling point.

Looking back, are there any areas of the platform that you feel could be added or improved upon?

The small market entry level price can be expensive, but as you scale up, the price drops.

Have you had to interact with the platform’s support team or reference their support resources?

Yes. Support is top notch from VMware. Hyper-V and XenServer has been open sourced, so support is hit or miss.

To sum up: We have a few quick questions, and for each question we ask you to rate the platform on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the best.

What would you give the platform for functionality of the features available?

5

What would you give the platform for ease of use or ease of implementation into your business?

5

For support, as in responsiveness of the team or helpfulness of the resources available?

5

How likely are you to recommend the platform to a colleague or similar business?

5

Overall, satisfaction with the platform?

5

5.0
Overall Score
  • 5.0 Features
  • 5.0 Ease of Use
  • 5.0 Support
  • 5.0 Willing to Refer
 
Survey Response
May 13 2017

Seamless Extension to the Cloud

4.0

Features: 
3.0
Ease of use: 
4.0
Support: 
3.0
Willing to refer: 
4.0
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IT Services
 
201-500 employees
 
Rosemead, CA
Executive, IT
1
The Review

Recommendations

I would recommend a business to consider this service if they are in need of a secure public cloud platform that offers compute, storage, networking, and disaster recovery.

Experience

It has an easy interface and simple setup. It can seamlessly extend our data center to the cloud. We use a dedicated cloud, virtual private cloud, block storage, data protection, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud manager, and hosted infrastructure. This service has performed adequately and our company has benefited by integrating our on-premises environment. We can address business needs without changing processes, and our workload has become more portable.

Pros

What I like is the robust hybrid capabilities and common management, which makes it easy to extend to the cloud from on-premises environments.

Cons

What I dislike is the single-tenant, physically isolated IaaS platform. A multi-tenant would be a much better option to meet our current needs.

 
Survey Response
Dec 03 2015

Integration and Training for Cloud Installation

3.5

Features: 
4.5
Ease of use: 
4.0
Support: 
4.0
Willing to refer: 
n/a
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the reviewer
 
Transportation
 
101-200 employees
 
San Francisco, CA
Manager, IT
1
The Review
Recommendations

Create a more direct way and more efficient way of integrated their system.

Experience

The company that I work for is within the transportation industry, and we need to have access to high profile information pushed. The company was looking for a better way to secure their information. There are five locations and the problems my office had were with the training seminars. First it was by video, but the video was not that informative. After the installation, we did have someone come out and work with us for two days. But we were on our own after that. We mostly use it for data storage and accounting programs. It has performed alright. The benefits are slim, mostly just having more storage space.

Pros

The speed is very good. We haven't seen problems

Cons

Sometimes the platform is inflexible. That's the only con we've seen.

 
Survey Response
May 06 2017

Deploying Virtual Machines is Easy with VMWare

4.0

Features: 
4.0
Ease of use: 
5.0
Support: 
3.0
Willing to refer: 
5.0
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the reviewer
 
IT Services
 
501 -1000 employees
 
Sanford, FL
Executive, IT
1
The Review

Recommendations

Invest in training resources, as they are useful.

Experience

We use VMWare to deploy virtual machines for development and test resources. We use virtual machines hosted on VMWare. The VMWare service has made deploying virtual machines simple and easy.

Pros

VMWare is inexpensive and scalable.

Cons

I don't dislike anything about VMWare.

 
Survey Response
Dec 08 2015

A Cloud Provider with a Clear Focus

5.0

Features: 
4.5
Ease of use: 
5.0
Support: 
5.0
Willing to refer: 
5.0
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the reviewer
 
Business services
 
201-500 employees
 
Portland, OR
Vice President, IT
1
The Review
Recommendations

I don't have any recommendations.

Experience

We believed that VMware offered the most reasonable pricing for the amount of storage that we were looking for. Also, we believed that they had a clear focus on security and it was a top priority for this company. We only use the cloud itself. We are better equipped to work more efficiently within and across different departments. The cloud allows employees who are working on projects to more easily make adjustments to documents, etc.

Pros

I like the amount of storage that our company gets and the security features that we receive.

Cons

There is nothing I dislike about VMware.

 
Survey Response
Dec 03 2015

Secured File Transfers

3.5

Features: 
3.0
Ease of use: 
4.5
Support: 
3.0
Willing to refer: 
n/a
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the reviewer
 
Business services
 
5000+ employees
 
Dallas, TX
Associate, IT
1
The Review
Recommendations

Research what it would take.

Experience

We picked it for compatibility which they provided. The company uses it for secured transfer of files. We've had no loss of data packets since using google cloud platform.

Pros

Ease of use to integrate

Cons

The costs and data transfer out of company.

 
Survey Response
Dec 02 2015

Increased Productivity with Employees

5.0

Features: 
5.0
Ease of use: 
5.0
Support: 
5.0
Willing to refer: 
n/a
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Information technology
 
201-500 employees
 
New York, NY
Manager, IT
1
The Review
Recommendations

They should seriously look into it. It's a good product.

Experience

It offers flexibility, and is good for employees who travel. It works well with our current systems, the price/value was great, and it came recommended by others in the industry that we trust. It's been good overall, and we haven't had any issues. It has increased productivity, especially from our employees that travel.

Pros

Easy to use, flexible, works well for mobile users, integrates well into our existing operations.

Cons

Nothing.

 
Survey Response
Dec 02 2015

Recovery Management and Data Analytics in the Cloud

4.0

Features: 
4.0
Ease of use: 
4.0
Support: 
3.5
Willing to refer: 
n/a
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the reviewer
 
Health care & life sciences
 
201-500 employees
 
California,
Director, IT
1
The Review
Recommendations

Better customer support would make them a great provider

Experience

The company chose them for their reputation, great products, and implementation specialization. We utilize the recovery management and data analytics tools. It's performed greatly, but they could perform better on customer service.

Pros

The privacy and storage features are good.

Cons

Customer support is lacking

 
Survey Response
Dec 01 2015

A Stable Virtual Cloud Platform

5.0

Features: 
5.0
Ease of use: 
5.0
Support: 
5.0
Willing to refer: 
n/a
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Manufacturing
 
501 -1000 employees
 
Binghamton, NY
Director, IT
1
The Review
Recommendations

Use the premium, it’s all in one

Experience

We love the easiness and compatibility of using vms. We're now virtual and less physical storage. We now need less time to solve solutions. We use the virtual cloud. We've gotten better storage, dependability, and resources.

Pros

The actual apps are very easy to use. The platform is very compatible and stable.

Cons

Nothing

 
Survey Response
May 10 2017

Ability to Maintain Corporate Compatibility

4.0

Features: 
4.0
Ease of use: 
4.0
Support: 
5.0
Willing to refer: 
5.0
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the reviewer
 
IT Services
 
501 -1000 employees
 
Orlando, FL
Director, IT
1
The Review

Recommendations

Research all the options.

Experience

VMWare was selected for corporate compatibility, database security, communication, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Pros

VMWare was adapted to our corporate requirements.

Cons

The costs.