We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution."
"The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation."
"The scalability is good."
"Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"I've been very pleased with their support overall."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Clusters is to protect the data."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution."
"Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be."
"We've had some challenges with the implementation."
"I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes."
"The pricing can be better."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"The technical support for Nutanix Clusters could be better."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"vCloud Director should include better billing options for businesses like mine or more options for customers to see their usage and billing situation regarding the usage of vCloud Director."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure VMware, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations and Morpheus. See our Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs. vCloud Director report.
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