We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) 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 most valuable features of this solution are visibility, the single console, capacity planning, the VM efficiencies. We have a recovery plan, security, policies policy security. That's why we implement it with your customers."
"The unified platform is also very user-friendly and clickable, similar to the Windows environment, making it easier for users to navigate and maintain."
"One of the most valuable features is the hardware and how they have set it up to be pretty redundant. If something goes down, you can just swap it out and you're back online. If a drive or even a whole node goes down, it's pretty easy to get it back up and running."
"The solution's support for scripts... has reduced the man-hours it takes to deploy and support applications because we don't have to rewrite all the scripts."
"In the beginning, I saw the product's user manual, but when installing and managing it in a practical way, I could see that it is very friendly and reliable at the interface level, at the same time very specific, it shows characteristics of the resources never observed at least by me on similar platforms"
"The tool's management for clusters is amazing and simple. It's quite simple to use it daily. With 1-click centralized upgrades, I can update my entire cluster using the data tech software from a single point in an easy way. It shows me that I have an update, then I just apply it, wait a few minutes, and all of the clusters are updated. It doesn't matter if it's a software update or something like bills. Everything is done from one central point. Also, the dashboard are really good. We have some relevant formations where I can see my cluster's CPU age, memory age, virtual machines, etc. All information can be viewed in an easy way, which provides me a cloud-like experience on an on-prem solution."
"The Nutanix stack is hyper-converged. I don't need to buy expensive SAN storage because it's integrated into the hardware appliance. That's the best part. We get excellent latency by leveraging local storage."
"I really like the Nutanix Marketplace a lot. We publish standard workloads there and that, in combination with the Projects, allows for self-service, which is the most powerful feature of Calm."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"The most valuable features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"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."
"Few systems are not business-critical, but they run 24/7."
"While there are multiple clouds supported, we want less friction around the ease of delivery. We want the ability to integrate other clouds, unify the accounts."
"Azure has a public cloud offering, and it also has a CSP model that allows Microsoft partners to provide Azure as a service to their customers. Cost Governance only works on the standard public cloud, not the CSP model. When I was at my previous company, we frequently got requests for Azure CSP support. We also got some requests for Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud, but Azure CSP was the biggest one."
"We have had our fair share of issues while upgrading early on, but the process now is working flawlessly."
"I would appreciate more advanced networking features in the dashboard."
"There have been bugs. We've seen what looked like some storage inefficiencies in reports and, when we went in to look, we found they were false alarms. That was something they corrected on the fly."
"LCM could be our second favorite feature right up there with One-Click Upgrades if it worked as smoothly but We have had a few issues with LCM but those appear to have been related to OEM hardware vendor not in sync with Nutanix software, not sure how this could be improved in the future."
"They should include more use cases for automation in administering the environment."
"The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"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."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"Improvements could be made in the building feature since there isn't a real building feature associated with the product. We require a building feature to integrate with other solutions."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 3rd in Cloud Management with 72 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "Highly scalable and stable, with one-click upgrade and analytics features, and provides excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with Morpheus, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Prism, VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus, CloudStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs. vCloud Director report.
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