G2 Vendor Directory

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) vs. VMware vSphere

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

by Broadcom

VMware vSphere

by Broadcom

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count731785
Ease of use8.59.1
Ease of setup8.28.8
Quality of support8.68.7
Meets requirements9.19.3
NPS54.92753669.61039
Small Business23.8%15.1%
Mid-Market39.2%41.1%
Enterprise37.0%43.8%
Total page views1,8121,242
Total LLM citations6574,101

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is the industry’s first private cloud platform to deliver public cloud scale and agility with on-premises security, resilience and performance, while lowering total cost of ownership. VCF accelerates customers’ digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, a unified cloud experience, along with stronger cyber resilience and platform security. VMware Cloud Foundation delivers a consistent private cloud experience across ANY Environment - whether it’s a customer managed data center, edge location or any cloud endpoint.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Networking
  • Data Management
  • Security
  • Easy Integrations
  • Management Efficiency

VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere with VCF 9.1 is the enterprise workload engine that modernizes compute infrastructure with a future-ready, scalable infrastructure and simplified management that enables organizations to extract maximum value from their current server investments and hardware footprint, rather than requiring a total refresh. vSphere provides a powerful foundation for modern, AI and traditional workloads, while enabling intrinsic security out-of-the-box.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Virtualization Management
  • Features
  • Management
  • Reliability
  • Stability