We performed a comparison between OpenText Cloud Service Automation 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."The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"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."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"This solution has helped us make money and provision our clients faster."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization. It is very handy for monitoring. VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good. I'm very happy with VMware. VMware is good in management and monitoring systems."
"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."
"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."
"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."
"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."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"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."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"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."
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OpenText Cloud Service Automation is ranked 27th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. OpenText Cloud Service Automation is rated 9.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Cloud Service Automation writes "Comes with life cycle management features but needs improvement in installation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". OpenText Cloud Service Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our OpenText Cloud Service Automation vs. vCloud Director report.
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