We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"vCloud Director requires less knowledge to get into in the first place. Therefore, when we bring in new members of staff, we can always give them the customer experience straightaway, and they can pick it up quite easily."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).
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