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We performed a comparison between Morpheus 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Morpheus vs. vCloud Director Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The user interface of the application is exceptional.""The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.""The multi-cloud integrations and the DevOps and operational integrations are the most valuable. Morpheus platform is a centralized set to manage different clouds and your on-premise platforms. It does a very good job of what it is designed to do. It is very good in terms of features. It is extremely stable and easy to install. It is also very scalable. Their support is also extremely good.""It supports many features, and it also supports some of the automation that Cloudify supports. So, in addition to just giving you basic platform management—such as the ability to deploy virtual machines and have multitenancy to log in and perform all of your basic platform management tasks—it also supports automation. You can, for example, spin up three virtual machines, and you can have each virtual machine configure each other. You can do service chaining with it. You can run scripts in Dash and Python, or you can use tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. All of this is just built into the tool. It is a very powerful tool.""The most valuable feature for me was cost optimization.""Morpheus provides a very easy and one-click solution to scaling up and down.""Morpheus is an intuitive solution that is very easy to use.""Provides a good automation platform."

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"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner.""The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'""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.""The product's initial setup phase was easy.""vCloud Director is a stable solution.""They can do any provisioning for the virtual machines. For instance, they will only see those resources if we allocate 10 Ghz database storage. The limitation is due to our setup: we need to ensure customer isolation, as vCloud Director supports multi-tenancy.""We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots.""vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."

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Cons
"The tool could support virtual network functions better. It is really good at doing enterprise-type of things, but one of the things on which we're working with them is loading very complex virtual machines with it, such as Juniper SRX routers. It needs to support more complex virtualized resources a little bit better. Aside from that, it is a terrific tool. We really like it.""The product has become overly complex. The biggest problem is that we find a bug, they fix the bug, but then another one pops up. We can never really deliver on the vision we had using Morpheus.""We had to put in much effort ourselves since Morpheus's support wasn't always available to help us.""There is room for enhancement in integrating Morpheus with other solutions.""The solution's pricing and customization need to improve.""We've been facing some challenges with Morpheus due to its design for public cloud usage.""I faced a few problems while deploying.""Morpheus is working hard on creating an integration framework due for release in Q2 2021 which will allow clients to create their own interfaces and integrations into any 3rd party product that has a full-function API. Morpheus is also heavily focussed on enhancing the container management side to compete head-to-head with Openshift and CloudForms in Q3 2021."

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"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading.""If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution.""It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI.""If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better.""There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support.""Improvements could be made in the building feature since there isn't a real building feature associated with the product. We require a building feature to integrate with other solutions.""Initially, the setup was complex.""We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs."
  • "The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model."
  • "Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly."
  • "The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers."
  • "Morpheus doesn't directly support cost optimization, but its API integration can facilitate resource optimization. It doesn't dynamically optimize resources like an aeronautic system would; it operates step by step."
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  • "It is better than other solutions out there when it comes to cost."
  • "It enables us to provision new clients more quickly."
  • "We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers."
  • "The solution is costly, efficient, and robust versus alternative solutions."
  • "It runs our company in the millions of rand every month."
  • "This is an expensive solution."
  • "It's a costly product. The licenses may not be costly, but with every new development in their product, we need to purchase deployment services, and the deployment services are quite costly."
  • "The license could be less expensive and we are on a perpetual license."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.
    Top Answer:We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.
    Top Answer:The product has become overly complex. The biggest problem is that we find a bug, they fix the bug, but then another one pops up. We can never really deliver on the vision we had using Morpheus. We… more »
    Top Answer:VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In… more »
    Top Answer:For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched to… more »
    Top Answer: When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services… more »
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    Also Known As
    Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP
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    Overview

    Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.

    VMware Cloud Director, also known as vCloud Director, is a cloud management tool that offers secure, flexible, and efficient cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. The solution serves as one of the leading cloud service-delivery platforms for businesses that want to manage and operate their services effectively. By deploying this solution, companies can benefit from virtualized networking, computing, security, and storage. These benefits can be received in a timely manner, as the infrastructure of the product is operationally ready within minutes and clients do not need to install and configure physical infrastructure.

    One of the biggest advantages of vCloud Director is that it allows users to build cloud-ready applications. In several ways, it facilitates the process for developers, including:

    • Open to DevOps: The product addresses the needs of DevOps teams by providing Infrastructure as Code services with vCD Terraform Provider. This allows developers to deliver infrastructure directly from code. Additionally, it provides capabilities from Python and vCD API as well as Object Storage API and App Launchpad APIs.

    • Customization: This solution is very customizable and extensible for cloud providers to deliver their own branding, themes, and services to their clients.

    • Dev-ready cloud: vCloud Director offers support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for vSphere and multicloud with a plugin for container service extension. Through these, native K8s Clusters or Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters can be delivered and managed through a user interface (UI) and application programming interface (API).

    vCloud Director Features

    This VMware product has various features through which users can virtualize their data and benefit from quality management solutions. Among the popular capabilities of vCloud Director are:

    • Elastic secure virtual data centers: This vCloud Director feature provides tenants with securely isolated virtual resources, fine-grained control of their public cloud services, and independent role-based authentication.

    • Multi-site management: This feature allows companies to stretch data centers across sites and geographies as well as connect to existing dedicated vCenters for access and management or on-broad into VMware vCloud Director.

    • ISV ecosystem: This feature integrates leading cloud service vendors into the product using an open extensibility framework. Some of the partners of vCloud Director include Dell Data Protection, Veeam, Cloudian, AWS S3, and Dell ECS.

    • DRaaS workload protection: This feature allows users to deliver self-service tiered disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) on-premises to cloud and cloud to cloud.

    • Cloud migration: Part of this feature is the plugin VMware Cloud Director Availability, which enables simple migration to cloud, offering self-service cold or warm migration to users' vCloud Director clouds.

    • Operational visibility and insights: The product includes an accessible dashboard and a single pane of glass to provide centralized multi-tenant cloud management views.

    • Cloud-native applications and development: This feature makes the platform suitable for developers to sandbox or deploy apps as it natively supports Tanzu Basic, native K8s, and PKS.

    • Automation: Through various tools and deep integration, the solution allows users to automate complex infrastructure-as-code and tile UI-driven workflows. This allows them to deploy X-as-a-Service and maintain full access control and visibility at the same time.

    • Application Platform as a Service: This feature enables users to deliver their own catalog-based applications or VMware Cloud Marketplace-certified third-party cloud applications through the plugin App Launchpad VMware Cloud Director.

    • GPU as a Service: Utilizing Nvidia AI Enterprise, this feature provides support for GPU as a Service and delivers multi-tenant GPU services for customers who require high-performance compute for GPU-specific applications.

    • Secure cloud: The solution supports multiple security-centric features to deliver an enterprise-class cloud service, including NSX-T distributed firewalling, workload encryption, and integrated disaster recovery replication.

    vCloud Director Benefits

    VMware vCloud Director offers various benefits to its users. Some of these include:

    • The solution provides a highly efficient self-service model which consists of a virtual data center compute, network, storage, and security.

    • VMware vCloud Director offers its users multi-tenancy infrastructure with deep automation which facilitates their daily tasks.

    • The product is cost-efficient, as it is service-ready on its very first day and offers a high revenue from services.

    • Businesses can deliver services to their clients in a timely manner through this product, benefitting from its natively integrated solutions.

    • VMware vCloud Director provides users with high flexibility, as it allows businesses to stretch networks across virtual data centers globally.

    • The solution provides load-balancing capabilities, which facilitate the creation of new hybrid applications and digital transformation initiatives.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Ajit Y., a cloud architect at a computer software company, likes VMware vCloud Director because it is a stable, truly multitenant software and the go-to tool for infrastructure as a service.

    Kashif F., a divisional engineer at National Telecom Corporatio, rates vCloud Director highly because the product can be used for infrastructure provisioning without using a platform service.

    Sample Customers
    Morpheus CMP, mcdonalds, blackrock, HSBC, astrazeneca, arris, WGU, GBG, pennstate, beyondtrust
    MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization30%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider35%
    Computer Software Company27%
    Transportation Company8%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise39%
    Large Enterprise45%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise51%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    Morpheus vs. vCloud Director
    May 2024
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    Morpheus is ranked 8th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Morpheus is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Morpheus writes "An intuitive solution that can be used for blueprints, automation, and self-service". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Morpheus is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), CloudBolt, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and Cloudify, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, CloudStack and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Morpheus vs. vCloud Director report.

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