The so-called big read "Easy Button" is anything but. Customers take on far more problems than they solve when they choose to go with VCF. Dealing with bugs, component compatibility, upgrades, and siloed support is a nightmare. Customers are much better off to simply get good at maintaining the individual vSphere, VSAN, NSX, and vRealize components. In fact many VCF customers are starting to deconstruct their VCF environments and go back to managing the individual components, so much so that the procedures are being documented. VCF is just a software-defined joke just like converged and hyper converged infrastructure is for hardware.
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That is a very good point about "certain drift".
I hated VCF from day one. Any technical buyer or influencer is still holding scars from the VCE, vBlock, FlexPod, blah blah days. vSphere, NSX and vSAN stand okay on their own - bundling together is certain drift with minimal to zero business value.
With more businesses moving to modern apps, vsphere will become more and more irrelevant.
it's true. There are many customers who purchase VCF as the commercial model is more attractive, but then deploy individual components as needed. The concept is sound, just the execution that is poor.
there are multiple strategic customers who have faced VCF 3 to 4, NSX V to T and vRA 7 to 8 migrations simultaneously.... the fact they are still customers is testimony to how sticky vSphere is.