We performed a comparison between OpenText Cloud Service Automation 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."The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"Good features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization. It is very handy for monitoring. VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good. I'm very happy with VMware. VMware is good in management and monitoring systems."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."
"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"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."
"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."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
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OpenText Cloud Service Automation is ranked 27th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. OpenText Cloud Service Automation is rated 9.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Cloud Service Automation writes "Comes with life cycle management features but needs improvement in installation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". OpenText Cloud Service Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our OpenText Cloud Service Automation vs. vCloud Director report.
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