We performed a comparison between BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"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 compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"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 stability is rock solid."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"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 requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Management while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack.
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