We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has good pricing compared to other firewall and security products."
"FortiGate Cloud has many features that we like. For example, we're using it for security incident management, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities check. It's integrated with several Fortinet tools like FortiAnalyzer and FortiSandbox controlled through FortiManager."
"Everything is valuable, especially the SD-WAN tunneling, filtering of email, application, and browsing. Everything has value."
"The most valuable FortiGate Cloud feature is logging. It's there seven days a week, and there is no hard limit on logs or size restrictions. This much capacity will show up for that seven days. FortiGate Cloud offers many other valuable features like Fortinet Secure Gateway, SASE, and the Fortinet Security Fabric."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the IPS, SSL Wireless, and VPN. Additionally, packet inspection and point-to-point VPN application control are useful."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate Cloud's simple UX and UI designs and the fact that it is also a VPN solution for our clients. The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution includes a very stable VPN and IPS."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ability to manage all of our environments allowing us to have better functionality and high availability."
"Configuration Manager simplifies management. Cloning via live migration is a useful feature."
"The platform is straightforward and user friendly."
"There are a lot of useful features, such as DRS, ease of use, and many configuration options."
"Beneficial patch management and template features."
"vCenter is very easy to use if you have good skills. It takes a little time to configure everything. It is template-based, so you click, click, and then reboot. It takes 15 minutes."
"I appreciate it because it's very easy to set up and configure new disks and servers."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the virtual machine management across different hosts, located in different areas."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."
"Reporting is an area that can be enhanced."
"I would like to see a SIEM bundled together with this because customers are looking into better reporting and more proactive security solutions."
"It would be much better if Fortinet FortiGate Cloud allowed third-party integrations like multi factor-authentication."
"The product is not recommended on the basis of technical parameters. It is very tough to authenticate."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve security. Some of my customers do not trust on-cloud solutions."
"Things are moving increasingly towards hardware agnostic appliances, an area in which I would like Fortinet to be more focused and fast moving with that product line."
"When vCenter is in a Microsoft environment, there is a lot of licensing involved, where we face some difficulties."
"The licensing model has shifted from socket-based to core-based licensing, resulting in increased customer costs. Moreover, if a customer utilizes software like VMware, which integrates seamlessly with ESXi, it becomes even more challenging to consider replacing ESXi. Hence, many customers, particularly in India, are actively exploring alternatives."
"There is room for improvement in operating and managing cluster environments and maintenance. And hardware environment visibility."
"The price could be reduced."
"It should be easier to use alternate storage."
"The Self Service Interface is not very good and it needs improvement."
"Not very user friendly, too many configurations."
"The ease of setup and installations could be improved."
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Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 57 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Fortinet FortiPortal, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Satellite and BigFix. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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