We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."It gives a real-time view of all the batch processing that we have. Monitoring-wise, it is really good."
"The solution has been stable."
"It has allowed us to automate many of the functions of our operations staff. For instance, we had production control staff spending two hours a day entering date parms into our daily business processes. And now, CA Workload Automation does it for us."
"It works constantly and is pretty seamless. You do not have to open up many support tickets."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"The scheduling feature allows us to know when jobs are going to run and makes sure they run in the order needed."
"It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"Good features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"The stability is rock solid."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"We see improvement possibilities in the processing provision of predefined evaluations or individual objects, or in the Self Service portal, which can be used by any user to monitor objects or start objects."
"The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support. To be fair a lot of the issues that came up for us have been quite niche but it seems that in terms of release cycles they introduced a lot of bugs and it's a lot of stuff that support generally has to work quite hard on. There have been cases when we've logged critical priority issues and not had responses in time. I think support is something that can be worked on."
"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."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"The solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"Sometimes, there is a disconnection that happens between vCloud Director and its underlying VMware vCenter, where the actions are supposed to be taking place, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack.
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