We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) 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 having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation."
"I've been very pleased with their support overall."
"In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution."
"The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters."
"The solution can scale well."
"The scalability is good."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"They can do any provisioning for the virtual machines. For instance, they will only see those resources if we allocate 10 Ghz database storage. The limitation is due to our setup: we need to ensure customer isolation, as vCloud Director supports multi-tenancy."
"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."
"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."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"There are still some things that could be improved about the product."
"The technical support for Nutanix Clusters could be better."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"We've had some challenges with the implementation."
"Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution."
"Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"The pricing can be better."
"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 should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support. To be fair a lot of the issues that came up for us have been quite niche but it seems that in terms of release cycles they introduced a lot of bugs and it's a lot of stuff that support generally has to work quite hard on. There have been cases when we've logged critical priority issues and not had responses in time. I think support is something that can be worked on."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 19th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure VMware, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations and Morpheus. See our Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs. vCloud Director report.
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