We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) 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."In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution."
"I've been very pleased with their support overall."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Clusters is to protect the data."
"Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters."
"The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"The solution can scale well."
"The scalability is good."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"The deployment is easy."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"The tool is very stable."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"There are still some things that could be improved about the product."
"We've had some challenges with the implementation."
"Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution."
"The pricing can be better."
"Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be."
"The technical support for Nutanix Clusters could be better."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"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."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 19th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure VMware, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus and VMware Aria Operations. See our Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs. vCloud Director report.
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