We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"vCloud Director requires less knowledge to get into in the first place. Therefore, when we bring in new members of staff, we can always give them the customer experience straightaway, and they can pick it up quite easily."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"The stability is rock solid."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"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."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"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."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Operations, CloudStack and VMware Aria Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and Microsoft Configuration Manager.
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