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."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"vCloud Director requires less knowledge to get into in the first place. Therefore, when we bring in new members of staff, we can always give them the customer experience straightaway, and they can pick it up quite easily."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"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."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"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 of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
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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 62 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 "A user friendly solution that makes it easy to submit and view jobs". 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), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our OpenText Cloud Service Automation vs. vCloud Director report.
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