We performed a comparison between CloudBolt 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."Role-based access control and application blueprinting."
"Hybrid cloud platform for VM and app deployment and management, with very good stability. It's customizable, easy to set up, and can be deployed within half an hour."
"The initial deployment was super easy."
"I find the self-service features valuable."
"The solution's biggest advantage is flexibility"
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The tool is very stable."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"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."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"The scheduling feature of CloudBolt needs improvement because sometimes, it doesn't work."
"The solution is not easy to use. It's not intuitive enough to click anywhere in the solution and make it work."
"Could increase the number of integrations and add more out-of-the-box work flows."
"The area of integrating on-prem and cloud needs improvement."
"The management of SaaS must be improved."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"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."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"The initial setup of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
CloudBolt is ranked 21st in Cloud Management with 8 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. CloudBolt is rated 8.4, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CloudBolt writes "Should be made considerably easier to use, though it offers much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". CloudBolt is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation, IBM Turbonomic and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our CloudBolt vs. vCloud Director report.
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