We performed a comparison between vCenter Orchestrator and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."I like the tool's DNS feature."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"The DRS feature from VMware is very valuable to us because it balances workloads."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy."
"Because of the central management, the scripting engine and workflow engine are integrated with VMware without any burden to integrate different products."
"We can manage and relocate resources easily."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"The tool is very stable."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"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 solution's price could be cheaper."
"I would like to see better performance."
"A feature to review and setup tasks should be added."
"The product’s cost needs improvement."
"The custom workflows are very difficult and confusing."
"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."
"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."
"The product lacks GUIs. The tool should have more GUIs available, along with easier product documentation."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"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."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"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."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"The integration between components could be improved."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco UCS Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and Fortinet FortiPortal.
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