We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director 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."Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator and VMware Aria Operations, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. vCloud Director report.
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