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 main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"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."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"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."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."
"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."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"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."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 21 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Efficient infrastructure management that offers comprehensive cloud management capabilities, including multi-tenancy, self-service provisioning and integration with VMware technologies". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, CloudStack and VMware Aria Operations. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. vCloud Director report.
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