We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is complete, and you don't need any add-ons."
"I like the tool's DNS feature."
"Because of the central management, the scripting engine and workflow engine are integrated with VMware without any burden to integrate different products."
"The solution was easy to install."
"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."
"The solution's ability to template and easily implement are the most valuable features. It offers good replication as well."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"Storage has room for improvement. It's a big problem for our solution. The interface also needs improvement, it should be simplified."
"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."
"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."
"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 did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"I would like to see a greater ability to do mobile administration."
"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."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". 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 UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco CloudCenter and vCloud Director, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack.
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