We performed a comparison between SkyKick Cloud Manager 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."Technical support has been good."
"We can manage and relocate resources easily."
"I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions."
"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."
"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"Communication with technical support is very good. It has a repository of knowledge base articles which we can access which are very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."
"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."
"I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution."
"The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"This is an expensive solution."
"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."
"I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"The GUI should be enhanced in the future."
SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". 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". SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.
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