We performed a comparison between vCenter Orchestrator and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."The solution was easy to install."
"It has the best workflow feature."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"Because of the central management, the scripting engine and workflow engine are integrated with VMware without any burden to integrate different products."
"The DRS feature from VMware is very valuable to us because it balances workloads."
"The solution's ability to template and easily implement are the most valuable features. It offers good replication as well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the workflow creation."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"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."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process."
"The product’s cost needs improvement."
"The response time of vCenter Orchestrator's support could be improved."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
"Mainly VMware integrates with other products, but there is no easy way to link with other products from a different vendor. We can integrate with other products from the same vendors fairly well, but if they could make it so integration is easier with other vendors, that would really help."
"We encounter challenges related to the renewal of support subscriptions."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"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."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco UCS Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and Fortinet FortiPortal.
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