We performed a comparison between BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"The stability of the product is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines."
"vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"The solution's ability to template and easily implement are the most valuable features. It offers good replication as well."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"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."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"I liked the previous client better than the current web client of vCenter Orchestrator, though my colleagues like the client now. The technical support for vCenter Orchestrator needs improvement."
"I would like to have an interface that can manage both on-premises and cloud solutions from a single console, where we can easily manage the resources that are being used or at least applications. Whereby clicking here and there from on-premises to cloud, or cloud to on-premises, depending on the requirements. If that can be accomplished, it will be extremely beneficial."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"This is an expensive solution."
"We encounter challenges related to the renewal of support subscriptions."
"I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Management while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 45 reviews. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.
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