We performed a comparison between vCloud Director vs VMware vRealize Automation vRA based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware vRealize Automation vRA wins in this comparison because scalability is not an issue like it is for vCloud Director, and because users have been very satisfied with the ROI.
"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."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"The tool is very stable."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"This solution has helped us make money and provision our clients faster."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"With the advent of the automation, we've been able to give DevOps the ability to spin up environments, give them lease times, and then have it automatically reclaim the environment."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's easy to deploy."
"In terms of scalability, vRA has connections to a lot of different systems. It's very flexible and an impressive product."
"The solution is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The most valued feature is the streamlining of the DevOps process, automation and orchestration. It provides the ability for the entire Dev lifecycle to actually be incorporated into a single stream."
"The extensibility of it and the customization of a lot of the Blueprints, that you can customize, and the community as a whole. There's a ton of community-generated Blueprints that might be (helpful) to set up a design for your automation needs, that you can use as a base and go on from there and make changes to it."
"I used the technical support during upgrades. They came onsite and are very technical. They are very good"
"The extensibility of the solution when it comes to writing your own ABX actions is a valuable feature. You can write it in PowerShell, JavaScript, or Python, which is great."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"When you start to do a deployment where you need higher availability and more resiliency, then the complexity goes up drastically."
"I would also like to see them streamline the install. It's split between Windows and Linux appliances, and it would be easier if it was all appliances. I think they're going that way."
"The initial setup is complex. There are too many components to integrate, especially when we integrated with different storage types and backup vendors. All the integration made it more complex."
"I would like to see more out-of-the-box blueprints and workflows for the rest of VMware's products and its portfolio."
"There is an area of improvement. For example, you are migrating from a customer's existing data center to a new target data center. To facilitate this transition, you'll initially need to evaluate the customer's aging hardware hosting VMware, which is nearing the end of its operational life. The customer expresses the intention to upgrade to a newer version, necessitating an overhaul of everything in the new data center. As a Systems Integrator (SI), consultant, or architect, your recommendation would be to acquire the latest hardware with a specified configuration and then install VMware on top of it. However, there's a crucial aspect related to the infrastructure requirements for VMware to run seamlessly on that hardware. If there's an opportunity to potentially reduce these infrastructure prerequisites, it would be highly beneficial."
"It has some limitations for scalability, especially for remote data center management. For some components, everything need to be centralized."
"The setup needs coding. It's not easy. It's not straightforward."
"They should concentrate on navigation and service improvements."
vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. vCloud Director is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". vCloud Director is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations, CloudStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus, vCenter Orchestrator and SaltStack. See our VMware Aria Automation vs. vCloud Director report.
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