We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Computing 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 feature is the backup capability."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"Easy to operate and use."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"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 has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"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."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"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 would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"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."
"The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"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."
IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our IBM Spectrum Computing vs. vCloud Director report.
See our list of best Cloud Management vendors.
We monitor all Cloud Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
