We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director 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 of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"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."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"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."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"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."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"Sometimes, there is a disconnection that happens between vCloud Director and its underlying VMware vCenter, where the actions are supposed to be taking place, making it an area where improvements are required."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"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."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator and VMware Aria Operations, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. vCloud Director report.
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