We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director 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."I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The self-service portal is the most valuable. We are acting as a service provider, so our customers can take care of their virtual data centers with the self-service portal. Therefore, we don't need staff for it."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"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."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 22nd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes " Enables centralized management, but the tool is complicated and expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Operations and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. vCloud Director report.
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