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."Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the workflow creation."
"In regards to the workflows, the fact that we can actually have a full dashboard library of all the existing workflows on this is great. We can see all the workflows and what all the actions do and can work with scripts."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"We can scale the solution."
"We can manage and relocate resources easily."
"The most valuable feature is workflow automation."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"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."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"The solution's price could be cheaper."
"I would like to have an interface that can manage both on-premises and cloud solutions from a single console, where we can easily manage the resources that are being used or at least applications. Whereby clicking here and there from on-premises to cloud, or cloud to on-premises, depending on the requirements. If that can be accomplished, it will be extremely beneficial."
"I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
"vCenter Orchestrator's debugging capacity could be improved."
"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."
"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 24 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "UI and integrations should be improved; version control is problematic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes " A tool that is simple to use that needs to remove its licensing charges". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack.
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