We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter 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."I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."
"You can scale it easily."
"Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."
"Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before."
"The initial setup process is straightforward."
"The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports."
"Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good."
"The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"The most valuable features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"The tool should improve its security on the XDR part."
"Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution."
"The solution needs to be more simple."
"The improvement I would like to see is not one thing particular to CloudCenter. I'd say it's more of a message that the system is still using a lot of the different products and if they would all just fit better together, they all could be faster together."
"For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw."
"I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain."
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches."
"They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features."
"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."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support. To be fair a lot of the issues that came up for us have been quite niche but it seems that in terms of release cycles they introduced a lot of bugs and it's a lot of stuff that support generally has to work quite hard on. There have been cases when we've logged critical priority issues and not had responses in time. I think support is something that can be worked on."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, Cisco UCS Director, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. vCloud Director report.
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