Cisco CloudCenter vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

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We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration.""The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup.""I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services.""Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well.""The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports.""Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before.""Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good.""The initial setup process is straightforward."

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"The implementation phase for vCenter Orchestrator was easy.""What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier through automation. People can request to automate all processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs.""We can manage and relocate resources easily.""Because of the central management, the scripting engine and workflow engine are integrated with VMware without any burden to integrate different products.""vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use.""It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems.""The technical support services are excellent.""vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library."

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Cons
"They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills.""They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.""Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution.""The solution needs to be more simple.""The improvement I would like to see is not one thing particular to CloudCenter. I'd say it's more of a message that the system is still using a lot of the different products and if they would all just fit better together, they all could be faster together.""The tool should improve its security on the XDR part.""You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches.""I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain."

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"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues.""Many times, customers' licenses are not used because the client is not aware of the features and the product benefits. When somebody is buying a product, they just do a default configuration.""We would like more flexibility in sizing data storage and virtual machines, as the current options aren't very adaptable.""In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs.""The custom workflows are very difficult and confusing.""As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well.""I liked the previous client better than the current web client of vCenter Orchestrator, though my colleagues like the client now. The technical support for vCenter Orchestrator needs improvement.""vCenter Orchestrator's debugging capacity could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring."
  • "The tool's pricing is balanced with the market."
  • "The tool's pricing is expensive."
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  • "Our licensing is on a yearly basis. We pay for the license and then we pay the support every year."
  • "This solution is expensive and the licensing is more attractive for Haveri."
  • "The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."
  • "We provide the VMware solution to our clients, for which they pay a perpetual license."
  • "The concept of hyper-convergence is smart. I don't know if it can be applied with less cost to be more affordable for small or medium-sized companies. The cost is a very important factor for it. We are currently depending on SAN storage. However, the hyper-converged solutions are depending on the storage within the hosts, such as vSAN in the VMware. It is a smart solution."
  • "We pay a yearly fee, based on our entries."
  • "The licensing module is somewhat complex. Calculating the cost is complicated. Many of our clients are unclear about the billing system and the traffic metering."
  • "The licensing cost is manageable because they have different versions available, standard, essential, and advanced."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The initial setup process is straightforward.
    Top Answer:They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.
    Top Answer:We use the product for demonstration, device provisioning, and data management.
    Top Answer:The solution's most valuable feature is its good automation features.
    Top Answer:The product is expensive, and the pricing needs improvement. They provide licenses every year.
    Top Answer:The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required. In future product releases, my company expects the solution to be made more… more »
    Ranking
    10th
    out of 38 in Cloud Migration
    Views
    208
    Comparisons
    128
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    698
    Rating
    7.8
    9th
    out of 64 in Process Automation
    Views
    370
    Comparisons
    299
    Reviews
    21
    Average Words per Review
    405
    Rating
    8.4
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
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    Overview

    The Cisco CloudCenter solution is an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform that securely provisions infrastructure resources and deploys applications to data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

    With Cisco CloudCenter breakthrough application-centric technology, users
    can:

    • Model: Quickly and easily build a cloud-independent application profile that defines the deployment and management requirements of an entire application stack.
    • Deploy: Use one click to deploy the application profile and related components and data to any data center or cloud environment.
    • Manage: Apply a wide range of application lifecycle actions to set policies to enable in-place scaling, support cross-environment bursting or high availability and disaster recovery, and stop the deployment.
    VMware vCenter Orchestrator simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware vCloud Suite components to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools and processes.
    Sample Customers
    NTT, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), CollabNet, Pratt & Miller, PZFlex
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Computer Software Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Government10%
    Retailer6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 10th in Cloud Migration with 9 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, Cisco UCS Director, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.

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