--- title: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Reviews meta\_title: 'VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 691 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 691 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Reviews & Product Details Visit Website 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. VCF supports both traditional as well as modern workloads such as containers, AI/ML workloads and brings modern applications faster to the market with self-service IaaS consumption experience for the application teams. VMware Cloud Foundation integrates leading products including vSphere (compute), vSAN (storage), NSX (networking), VCF Operations and VCF Automation into a single solution, while providing access to high-value advanced services for Application and Network Security, App Platforms, Ransomware Recovery and Private AI. Core VMware Cloud Foundation Components • VMware Cloud Foundation Infrastructure Stack: Incorporates VMware’s industry-leading solutions – virtualization and compute through vSphere for compute, storage through vSAN, and networking by NSX. • VCF Operations Fleet Management: Automate the installation, operations, and lifecycle management of the VCF stack, streamlining deployment, configuration, and updating processes. • VCF Automation Orchestration: Deliver comprehensive operations, automation, and analysis, across the full stack infrastructure platform. • VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service: Built-in Kubernetes runtime that enables enterprises to run modern applications and traditional workloads on a single platform. How VMware Cloud Foundation Works • Workload Compute Platform: At its core, VMware Cloud Foundation leverages vSphere to create and manage virtual machines and containers, providing a flexible, secure, and scalable compute platform. • Storage Optimization: By integrating vSAN into the platform, VMware Cloud Foundation offers integrated, secure, scalable storage solutions that enhance resource efficiency and reduce operational complexity. • Network Integration: Leverages NSX to provide a secure, software-defined networking layer capable of handling the dynamic needs of modern cloud- based applications using virtual private clouds (VPCs) to isolate apps and users. • Automated Provisioning and Management: VMware Cloud Foundation Automation orchestrates key operational tasks in a cloud operating model, reducing the time and complexity associated with deploying, managing, and maintaining private cloud environments. How VMware Cloud Foundation helps you solve your toughest challenges • Infrastructure Modernization: VMware Cloud Foundation plays a crucial role in transforming traditional IT infrastructures into a more agile and scalable private cloud environment. This transformation is key to enabling organizations to deploy core Private Cloud use cases that deliver strategic outcomes that lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), improved efficiency and accelerated innovation. • Application Modernization: Update and transform legacy software to meet modern business, technology and infrastructure needs. Replace outdated, monolithic applications with modern technologies like containers, microservices, APIs, AI/ML and DevOps Automation - improving scalability, performance, security and user experience. • Security Modernization: VMware Cloud Foundation provides a consistent, secure platform with the ability to extend the security architecture even further with intrusion detection and recovery, addressing key challenges such as ransomware threats, disaster scenarios, and the need for advanced security architectures. * * * Product Website VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Seller [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166) Discussions [VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Sue Ulintz Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf/pricing) ## VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Integrations (34) What do users say about integrations? 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Foundation (VCF)? The functional versatility of the platform itself. It is the way that most projects use platform to enhance the viability of the product. A must see use case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)? The cost of the environment is making it go obsolete faster than most people realize. A 682% increase is an insane objective tot think people will take Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solving and how is that benefiting you? A platform that solves all of the different needs I have for my environment while still being able to lock it down in a security just wish all pieces were included Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Civic & Social Organization](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Civic & Social Organization") UC Verified User in Civic & Social Organization Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/17/2020 "VMware is the worst" 0/5 What do you like best about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)? It is a secure portal between multiple off-site applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)? This app frequently freezes and crashes. The crashes sometimes happen multiple times a day. I just had to have IT troubleshoot the app and ended up doing a reinstall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): The upkeep and maintenance is left to your own/internal IT department. You will spend a lot of time with reinstalls, reboots and upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solving and how is that benefiting you? It is a good bridge between multiple systems across both of my employers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/21/2021 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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