We performed a comparison between OpenText Cloud Service Automation and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."
"The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"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."
"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."
"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"vCloud Director should include better billing options for businesses like mine or more options for customers to see their usage and billing situation regarding the usage of vCloud Director."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
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OpenText Cloud Service Automation is ranked 27th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. OpenText Cloud Service Automation is rated 9.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Cloud Service Automation writes "Comes with life cycle management features but needs improvement in installation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". OpenText Cloud Service Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our OpenText Cloud Service Automation vs. vCloud Director report.
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