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."I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"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."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"The stability is rock solid."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"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."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"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."
"Improvements could be made in the building feature since there isn't a real building feature associated with the product. We require a building feature to integrate with other solutions."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
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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