We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director 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."UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it makes it to manage the VM."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The most valuable feature for us is the performance stability of vCenter Orchestrator, especially in complex situations, making it excellent for managing virtual machines."
"The implementation phase for vCenter Orchestrator was easy."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is complete, and you don't need any add-ons."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."
"There can be compatibility issues."
"The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution's price could be cheaper."
"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."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". 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". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack.
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