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VMware Tanzu

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Build, run and manage apps on any cloud, VM or K8s container

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4.2 /5
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Value for Money
3.7/5
Features
4.2/5
Ease of Use
4.1/5
Customer Support
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Jürgen
Jürgen
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The key to enterprise adoption of devops principles

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

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

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

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

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Opinion on Tanzu

Reviewed on 2023/09/08

Our software teams now have a k8s platform on which to deploy their applications moving away from...

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

Pros

The integration with our existing VMWare products

Cons

The configuration and initial setup is quite hard and requires a lot of manual configuration

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure

Reasons for Switching to VMware Tanzu

Our company wasn't ready yet to go to the cloud for our k8s implementation
Boris
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

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

Reviewed on 2023/09/08

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).

Pawel
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A solid PaaS solution provided by Tanzu.

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

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

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

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.

Simmy
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Most Developer Friendly Product

Reviewed on 2023/09/03

Very happy with TAS overall from Platform and Developer perspective. Having challenges in adopting...

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

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.

Joe
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

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

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

I've driven the adoption of many different technologies within my company over the years. I brought...

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.

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.

Bradley
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

For your cloud native needs Tanzu brings a big winner

Reviewed on 2024/08/07

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

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

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.

Mateusz
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

vSphere with Tanzu - implementation in PoC and Prod environment

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

The overall experience is great. This is a promising and developing solution. Of course, there are...

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.

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

Christoph
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Common customer questions for small and mid range environments

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

I have a great time explaining the tech and the different tools / software to the customer. They...

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.

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.

Thomas
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A solid foundation for enhancing your developer expirience

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

VMware Tanzu enables our developers to focus on app developed and bringing new features quickly...

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.

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.

Alternatives Considered

OpenShift
Vijaya
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Tanzu a programmer friendly solution

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

A solution that is reliable and maintained with ease, we are overall a happy customer.

A solution that is reliable and maintained with ease, we are overall a happy customer.

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.

Jarosław
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Tanzu - make it easy

Reviewed on 2023/09/07

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

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Tanzu

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

Pros

Mission Control and the policy engine + cli

Cons

Integration was going well, more labs or testing of the product would be nice

Mariusz
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Vsphere and Tanzu

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

Integration between virtualization and containers.

Integration between virtualization and containers.

Pros

As using vSphere, integration with Tanzu was very easy for us.

Cons

As for now, I see no flaws or issues in Tanzu.

Osman
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

VMware-Tanzu_01

Reviewed on 2022/07/25

Somebody who wants to use it should take a training by expert who knows it well.

Somebody who wants to use it should take a training by expert who knows it well.

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.

Alternatives Considered

OpenShift
Sushant
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

"Secured Container Orchestration Technology from VMware "

Reviewed on 2023/02/18

I am working with VMware products from 3-4 years. what they provide is surely helps organization...

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 .

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.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Herrameintas confiables de Contenerizacion y DevOps

Reviewed on 2024/02/12

Mi experiencia ha sido implementando Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

Mi experiencia ha sido implementando Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

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.