We performed a comparison between OpenNebula 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 live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"With a single click, we could set things up and initiate them."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."
"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."
"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 features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"They have been saying for the past two and a half years that they would develop a feature to hot-add RAM and CPU, but it does not work."
"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."
"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."
"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"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."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
OpenNebula is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. OpenNebula is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". OpenNebula is most compared with CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations and Cloudify, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator. See our OpenNebula vs. vCloud Director report.
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