We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter 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."Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good."
"The initial setup process is straightforward."
"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."
"The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration."
"The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup."
"You can scale it easily."
"Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"The deployment is easy."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The self-service portal is the most valuable. We are acting as a service provider, so our customers can take care of their virtual data centers with the self-service portal. Therefore, we don't need staff for it."
"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."
"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 tool should improve its security on the XDR part."
"They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills."
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches."
"For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw."
"The solution needs to be more simple."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"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."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, Cisco UCS Director, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. vCloud Director report.
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