We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) 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."We use Calm's one-click self-service feature and it's really transforming the team's efficiency. The teams are used to being reactive, which is typical of what you find in IT organizations and service providers. Customers run into problems and teams react. What we're trying to do is reduce that slope and be more proactive in approach. The one-click ability is enabling us to take some of those activities and put them into operation, versus people manually responding."
"Nutanix Cloud Manager is a lot easier to set up compared to other products."
"The self-service capabilities allow us to orchestrate our deployments without writing code, and they also use artificial intelligence to improve our security posture."
"The 1-Click Centralized Upgrades are really nice. When you go in and want to upgrade your Cluster, you just click a button and everything will upgrade. You don't have to go to each individual server to do the upgrades."
"Nutanix Prism Pro improves the quality and efficiency of IT operations for the modern datacenter. Powered by the machine learning and task automation, Prism Pro intelligently optimizes capacity, proactively detects performance anomalies, and enables the IT team to automate operations tasks with ease and confidence."
"One of the most valuable features is the hardware and how they have set it up to be pretty redundant. If something goes down, you can just swap it out and you're back online. If a drive or even a whole node goes down, it's pretty easy to get it back up and running."
"The administration components are the most useful since, with them, we have been able to win and perform preventive measures in the administration of the hyper-converged Nutanix infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to find a machine, regardless of which cluster it's located in, as quickly as possible, and being able to work on it. A lot of times we are called upon to troubleshoot an issue. That usually means there's a problem that needs quick attention. Being able to find machines, ascertain their status, and do so in a timely manner, are processes that are very critical to our business needs."
"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."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions."
"We have a lot of projects so we cannot always dive deep into the material that Nutanix offers. We would like to but we have other priorities. It was a busy year. We have an external company that does things for us so we can make the process go faster. We know what we need and what we would like to achieve. I'm still on the learning curve."
"I still remember it was a struggle when we configured the initial network setup, that part was a little bit confusing about how exactly it works, we have two different Nutanix technicians who were on-site to help on the configuration. But both of them could not get right the first time, and we had to reset and start over again on both systems."
"For Nutanix, there are options to go with different types of hardware vendors for using the AOS operating system. We can deploy it on Dell, Lenovo, or IBM servers. If Nutanix had its own server, it would be good."
"I think one of the points to improve is having the platform with multiple languages, for example Spanish, seriously, one point to consider is a valid point for me, my native language is Spanish, being in Venezuela."
"The design could be more user-friendly. There is always room for improvement when it comes to a site being more user-friendly."
"There's the split between Prism Central and Prism Element and having to know which interface I need to get into to do certain feature sets or just having to switch between those having all the feature sets available under for some central, area would be my biggest ask. They've been moving towards that more and more."
"I would appreciate more advanced networking features in the dashboard."
"Compatibility with multiple clouds and a single control would help us. We are also getting onto GCP, and there is limited compatibility with GCP in the areas we need. We are using GCP primarily for data analytics."
"In version 6.7, compatibility to migrate VMs from a vCenter to vCloud Director had a problem. However, this has been solved in the newest version."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"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 solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve."
"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."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 3rd in Cloud Management with 72 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "Highly scalable and stable, with one-click upgrade and analytics features, and provides excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with Morpheus, Nutanix Prism, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Operations and OpenNebula, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus, CloudStack and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs. vCloud Director report.
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