We performed a comparison between Cloudify 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."Valuable features are auto-scaling and load balancing."
"The solution includes the option to run background scripts and processes from a connected API."
"Cloudify provides the infrastructure-as-code, as well as operational action capabilities (orchestrated startups or upgrades, and more)."
"Has great extendability which means you can build your own custom logic."
"You can use only what you need. You can remove certain Cloudify functions from the framework to create a "minified" version of what you need. This might only consist of the messaging delivery system, and the orchestration functions."
"Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds."
"Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements. It really works well there, and it fits the best. They have a standardized markup that's based on TOSCA, which is a standard. I like the fact that they're standards-based. Their solution works extremely well if you have the talent and the manpower to write TOSCA descriptors to deploy and interchange services or to automate the configuration and turn up of services."
"It enables a single platform to communicate with the entire infrastructure."
"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 stability of the product is very good."
"The solution is stable."
"We can scale the solution."
"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."
"We can manage and relocate resources easily."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"It lacked the user interface for multitenancy and basic platform management tasks. It is a leader in the niche area that they like to perform in, but it only does about 30% of top-tier advanced functions of platform management. It doesn't meet about 70% of what you need to manage a private cloud platform."
"Certainly the UI could use some intensive work, but nevertheless, overall, it’s a complete product with its 3.4 version and much better features are available with 4.0."
"The solution is a bit of a headache because mistakes happen in the blueprint every time we deploy and they require modifications."
"Unlike the Docker environment, Cloudify takes time for configuration and its learning curve."
"Error handling could be improved; GUI is lacking with respect to user privileges and connectivity."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
"I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"I would like to see a greater ability to do mobile administration."
"The cost of the solution is high."
Cloudify is ranked 20th in Cloud Management with 12 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. Cloudify is rated 8.0, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudify writes "Works very well for advanced service chaining requirements and has extremely advanced engineers for support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". Cloudify is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack, OpenNebula and CloudBolt, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director and Cisco UCS Director.
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