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Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
View full review »I have not encountered any issues, difficulties, or weaknesses with the product.
I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.
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reviewer1155024
Head of Transport & Data Networks Engineering Department at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
After experiencing significant improvement in stability over the past two years, I am inclined to recommend the product. Our positive experiences with it support this recommendation. While overall it's a good product, there are areas where it could have performed better. For example, considering its classification as an orchestrator, one would expect smoother synchronization and orchestration within its own platform, particularly with VMware and vCenter. Nonetheless, it functions adequately, and given the limited competition at its level, it deserves recognition with a high rating. Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.
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vCloud Director
March 2024
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Bruno Carvalhal
Assistant Manager at Melco Resorts & Entertainment
Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
View full review »I recommend the solution and rate it an eight out of ten.
View full review »I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Santosh Akkula
CIO at airtel
The decision to use this solution depends on the size of the organization. A small organization that has less than one hundred servers deploying vCloud Director will find that the cost of running is much cheaper than the product itself. I would not recommend anything above one hundred. However, if you have to constantly change, and you have a dynamic environment, then it would make sense.
I rate this solution an eight out of ten overall.
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reviewer2320629
Support Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I would recommend vCloud Director as a solid solution for cloud providers. It offers comprehensive features and is easy to integrate with other VMware components, making it well-suited for diverse needs. Overall, I would rate it as a ten out of ten.
I'm a team leader of a set of consultants in one company in UAE, so I downloaded reports, for example, about vCloud Director for reference. It helped me in designing a solution. I used to work for VMware as a post-sale consultant based in India, but then I quit and joined a different company. I have a personal experience with the vCloud Director.
In terms of maintaining vCloud Director, if you have a good amount of footprint of VMware staff, it would still depend on the number of objects you are controlling through the solution. If you have just one or two organizations created, it's fine, meaning one person can do the maintenance. In my scenario, however, I was supporting a customer who is one of the largest clients in VMware, who is using vCloud Director, so it was almost a team of six to seven people who were involved in maintaining the solution.
My advice to people looking into implementing vCloud Director would depend on their use case. vCloud Director has a very limited use case because most needs can be taken care of by vRealize Automation. If you're not a VCPP (VMware certified partner) and providing the VMware services to the external organization, you don't need the vCloud Director. You can have your private cloud based on open shift, open stack, vRealize, and a bunch of other solutions. vCloud Director is predominantly only for the VCPPs who are authorized to sell the VMware cloud to external customers, which they manage on behalf of VMware.
I'm rating vCloud Director seven out of ten.
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Pramod Pawar
Architect Product Engineering at SunGard Availability Services
I would rate this solution 7 out of 10.
View full review »VMware's vCloud Director solution has been instrumental in addressing multi-tenancy needs within my organization. By leveraging the product alongside VMware's vSphere BitLocker Center, my clients can securely utilize their dedicated data centers while benefiting from scalability. Additionally, it helps ensure security across our cloud environments.
It primarily caters to public cloud environments. I rate it a ten out of ten.
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reviewer2351076
Technical Team Leader - Microsoft at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
VMware took the decision one day to change all the usage types and gave us only three months to change, which is a really bad thing.
Overall, I rate the solution a five out of ten.
Users need to be educated to use vCloud Director.
Overall, I rate vCloud Director an eight out of ten.
I would rate the product a nine out of ten. The tool is simple and easy to use. The solution provides API and GUI interfaces.
View full review »My advice to others is for them to check the requirements before implementation.
I rate vCloud Director a nine out of ten.
View full review »I would advise anyone wanting to use the solution to get training from VMware.
I rate the solution eight out of 10.
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Chris Magee
Pre-Sales Engineer at Secura
It is a great product. It is like magic. It allows you to do so much.
Put it in a lab, and you'll instantly fall in love with it. That's all you need to know. Just give it a go. If you're looking for something that allows your customers to get access to their VMs and stop bothering you, then get in there and try this solution out.
vRealize Orchestrator is a powerful tool. A common query that we get from our customers is they might have issues where their servers are slowing down, but they have no idea why. So, we can pull up all of the graphs and say, “Very clearly your storage is too busy. It has too many IOPS or your CPU is maxing out.” This gives us a sales opportunity, because we can sell them a resource, and hopefully fix their problem.
We don't use the container features.
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reviewer2180859
Cloud Administrator at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our employees mostly have experience in AWS and Azure, but they do not have any experience in VMware. The product is as good as AWS. We faced issues while integrating our infrastructure with other servers.
Before joining the company, I was working with OpenStack. My job is dedicated to VMware. My company and I need to increase the productivity of our cloud environment. People planning to use the solution should read the documentation very well to understand VMware and how it works. VMware provides good documentation. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I would rate vCloud Director at nine on a scale from one to ten.
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Kashif Fayyaz
Divisional Engineer at National Telecom Corporatio
The public cloud and the hosted cloud solutions are going in parallel, and some countries have the requirement to host the data locally. Most of the organizations who don't have these compliance requirements go for the public cloud, but I would say that hiring and retaining skilled resources matters a lot. Because if you have skilled, experienced resources, then things will be easy for you, but if you can't retain the skilled resources and things are quite complex, then you will need to accept all of the company's conditions.
Overall, we are happy with the product, so I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.
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ITAdmin58981
IT Administrator with 201-500 employees
I would recommend VMware and vCloud Director, if they want to go cloud.
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AmjadBanna
Computer Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I rate vCloud Director an eight out of ten.
View full review »I would rate the product an eight out of ten.
View full review »I rate vCloud Director an eight out of ten.
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Ronald Van Staden
Director at Silicon Sky Consulting LLC
I think the product has come a long way since its introduction. It is stable now. In the early days, there were some teething problems. At this point, I would definitely recommend it. It has become a mature product now and it works well.
On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate the vCloud product as a good eight or nine-out-of-ten.
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Peter De Boer
Senior Engineer with 501-1,000 employees
We use vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director for creating work flows. You can automate your work.
Using the self-service capabilities, our customers can quickly use the product with instructions and learn it within an hour.
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Kirill Naumenko
Head of R&D Department at GigaCloud
I would rate this solution an eight. It has a lot of features in the roadmap, maybe in a few years, I can give it a ten.
I would advise someone looking into this solution to test your environment and to determine whether or not this solution is suitable for you. This solution was a good decision for our clients and we get good feedback from them.
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Rasoul Askari
OS & Servers Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would rate vCloud a seven out of ten.
In the next release, I would like to see better integration with VMware and the older cloud solutions like OpenStack. I think VMware is working on it.
OpenStack works better than VMware in a distribution system.
We have better performance in surface storage, we have better documentation.
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.
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OSMNGR346
OSS Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
If you're looking into this or a similar solution I would tell you to start fresh and start with VMware Professional Services and their architects from the beginning.
I would definitely rate this solution a ten. It has been working flawlessly for the last ten years and we have been very happy with it.
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Avi Saadi
System Administrator at Bezeq
I recommend this solution. It is a very good product.
We would like to start using the container feature and PKS. We are mostly using the vCloud Director, vSAN, and vCloud Availability.
Right now, we are not using their self-service. We implemented our self-services. Developers in our company make a self-service portal. However, we are also looking at the self-service of VMware products.
View full review »Before installing vCloud director, I suggest:
1. Check HCL and compatibility matrix between vCloud director, vSphere and vCloud network and security (ex: vShield manager)
2. Use vDC resources only for vCloud director purpose, don't mix traditional vSphere and vCloud director usage.
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Abdulaziz Abanmy
System admin
I would rate this solution an eight. So far we are satisfied with it, but there are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support. So far they have helped us very well.
I would tell someone looking into this or a similar solution that before deploying any cloud, you need to have a good consultant that can help you to build the cloud well, especially from the start and especially with the infrastructure. There are a lot of components that need to be taken into consideration before doing this.
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Jordan Donley
Technical Services Team Lead at Novosco
I would rate this solution an eight. I haven't had too many problems with it but I don't think it's perfect.
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Ivan Skopar
Engineer at T-Systems
I rated this solution a seven because the search button really bothers me. Also, because it isn't always able to finish an operation.
I would not highly recommend vCloud Director and rate it at seven out of ten.
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reviewer1382925
Senior Professional Services Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We will upgrade and continue our usage of this solution.
I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using this solution. It's a very good product.
I would rate vCloud Director a nine out of ten.
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SeniorCl2ed7
Senior Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I would advise someone looking into this or a similar solution to use vCloud Director if a customer wants to remove their old hardware.
I rated this solution an eight because it's a good product.
View full review »Go for it. Follow the bottom-up approach; VMware's Implementation Guide for each product and you will sail through.
View full review »VMware's been the market leader in the virtualization segment for many, many years. I've worked with the product since 1.0 days and I've seen the evolution of the other hypervisors as well but none have totally matched the enterprise quality that VMware has.
Peer reviews are important but hands on with the products and doing POCs are very important as well. Really, I think from my standpoint, the peer reviews help to focus on needs for a particular enterprise environment or particular solution and I think it helps weigh out what features may not be necessarily needed for particular solution. Really, peer reviews I think are fantastic. I do them all the time but that depends on use case what you need them for.
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Ajit Yadav
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I rate Cloud Director eight out of 10. As a service provider, we have to look at a couple of available and other things, so I would rate it around eight. I have to deduct two points because some small things make a huge difference to a service provider, but they might not matter too much from a customer-experience perspective.
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's also good for enterprises that want to keep a more segregated approach to their different departments and things. You definitely have much better control and a more streamlined way to offer services to your internal teams or your customers out-of-the-box in a multitenant way. And you don't need to worry too much about how you're going to network these things together or how you're going to control the assets of the computers and resources.
In my experience, it is a very robust product. I have used this product since the initial version and watched it evolve into a highly mature product. It's a stable, truly multitenant software and the go-to tool for infrastructure as a service.
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SeniorSo53e6
Senior Solution Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees
Do a proof a concept before making a decision.
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Ajit Yadav
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's important to have some development capabilities within your organization I think the most important thing is to understand your requirements and what your end goal is because you need to understand whether vCloud Director is going to restrict you or not. It's a very powerful product for service providers. You also need to keep in mind what other service add-ons you want to achieve because your overall design and architecture or blueprint is very dependent on what you want to do. Having a blueprint will provide you with the difference between a wonderful outcome or an unstable one. We've been using this solution a long time so I would suggest that if you want to be in the current market scenario and keep yourself alive, a product like vCloud Director can definitely help you sustain yourself. It keeps you up with the new trends and up to date on your portfolios as well. The fact that we can now go beyond infrastructure as a service is great. We can now expand and be a more versatile provider giving application as a service from a single portal.
In today's scenario, hybrid cloud and hybrid connectivity is what is really very important. Although Cloud Director provides that sort of connectivity, it is limited within VMware products. If we could hook up with hyperscalers like Azure, Google or AWS, I would give this solution a higher rating.
I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.
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Dan Belmonte Alcaraz
Solutions Engineer at NTT Com MS
I would recommend, especially with the new features coming out in versions 8.0 and 9.0.
View full review »Access the enormous amount of virtual apps they have to get practical performance instead of just the KB to deploy. They also need to get an understanding of audience as well. Understand pain points to understand how to approach solution.
It loses points because things are moving so quickly that it has yet to catch up.
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Engineerinfo98876
Java Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
My only additional commentary has to do with the making improvements to the user interface.
If I was to give vCloud Director a rating from one to ten, 10 being the best, I'd give it an 8 based on the fact that it's stable, our customers seem to like it, and we can manage it quite easily.
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Ahmed Ibrahim Aloulah
VMware Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would rate this solution a six because, from the end-user experience, it's hard to deal with the portal compared to other solutions like OpenStack.
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There is a great amount of work to be done before considering deployment of this or any other cloud platform
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reviewer1623768
MSS Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are looking for another solution that meets our needs.
I rate vCloud Director a seven out of ten.
I really don’t know of any products right now other than this. They’re pretty high – if someone has a peer review that’s low, I won’t consider the product.
View full review »Choosing VMware in general, is best in terms of functionality, but it is not necessarily cost effective, as their licensing and setuo cost are too hight. Maybe we will see more products for cloud and automation.
View full review »You can't go wrong with VMware. The stability and the flexibility it allows, they do it best compared to competitors. Peer reviews are fairly important but I try to form my opinion from a POC over anything else.
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ICTspe3287
ICT specialist
Go for this solution, but you will need quite a big environment to utilize vCloud Director.
View full review »I think VMware has abandoned the product a with vSphere 5.5, vCloud Director is an obsolete solution. As VMware no longer offers the product, it is now difficult to implement.
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reviewer1080351
Senior Project Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a cloud service provider. We are integrators and provide cloud services using VMware vCloud Director.
I don't have any particular advice for those planning to implement the solution.
I rate vCloud Director as an eight out of ten.
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March 2024
Learn what your peers think about vCloud Director. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.