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CloudAware vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
CloudAware boosts ROI by cutting costs, enhancing IT management, and improving client satisfaction with real-time solutions.
Sentiment score
5.8
Organizations using VMware Cloud Director experience mixed ROI, with benefits in efficiency and cost management but variable expenses.
The real-time database management for risk management has improved, with twenty-four-seven customer care resolving incidents within twenty-four hours, making my clients very happy.
Senior Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India
This vertical has been operational for two years and helps us reduce IT issues by leveraging predictive analytics to proactively address potential threats.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
We have seen a significant return on investment with CloudAware, saving around four crores in two years due to reduced manpower needs from effective multi-cloud management and consolidating our security measures.
DGM, Content Vertical at Agriculture Skill Council of India
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.6
CloudAware offers responsive 24/7 live chat, but users suggest enhancing weekend phone support despite professional service.
Sentiment score
6.8
VMware Cloud Director's support is helpful yet occasionally slow, with effective documentation aiding independent troubleshooting, but response time varies.
Whenever I have interacted with them, I got the required response from them.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Our feedback has been answered quickly in a professional manner without pressure to commit.
Senior Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India
I request them to extend it to 24/7 to enhance ticket resolution speed.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
Around 70-80% of issues can be easily troubleshot by public documentation and KB articles.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Regarding the technical support team of VMware for vCloud Director, I would rate them as good and I would give them a nine out of ten.
Consultant at Lenovo India
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
CloudAware excels in scalability and adaptability, efficiently managing assets, cloud environments, compliance, and budgets with seamless AWS integration.
Sentiment score
7.3
VMware Cloud Director offers impressive scalability for cloud providers, suitable for medium to large enterprises, but needs private cloud enhancements.
The scalability as a centralized hub provides access to pre-built compliance standards, simplifying resource monitoring across multiple cloud providers.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
CloudAware scales well for us, and we have expanded from monitoring a few workloads to a large multi-cloud environment without any issues.
Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital
CloudAware's scalability meets our organization's growth and changing needs.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
VMware Cloud Director is quite scalable; I would rate it nine out of ten.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
I would rate scalability for VMware Cloud Director as 8, especially from the on-premises environment.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
CloudAware is stable, reliable, supporting multi-cloud integrations, impressive uptime, seamless APIs, compliance monitoring, and cost management.
Sentiment score
7.6
VMware Cloud Director is stable and reliable, with minor upgrade concerns, improving over time to gain user confidence.
We have not faced any issues, as it is equipped to manage eighty to one hundred types of multi-cloud environments simultaneously without reporting outages in day-to-day operations.
Deputy General Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI)
CloudAware has been stable in our experience, and we have not had major outages or interruptions;
Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital
CloudAware is absolutely stable and reliable, allowing us to integrate multiple systems quickly with less downtime compared to before.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
There are occasional problems when trying to increase the parameters of a virtual machine.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
 

Room For Improvement

Users seek better cloud updates, expanded reports, enhanced onboarding, more workshops, AI, improved support, and competitive pricing.
VMware Cloud Director faces criticism for integration issues, outdated features, high pricing, and installation complexity, deterring hybrid cloud use.
Approximately seventy percent of organizations are focused on threat management across their cloud servers, a space where CloudAware excels, and additional customization would enhance overall security while increasing CloudAware's revenue.
Senior Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India
CloudAware should enhance their customer support by adding an FAQ and knowledge base section to address commonly asked queries.
DGM, Content Vertical at Agriculture Skill Council of India
I need some cost optimization solution for a workload running in AWS.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Cross-cloud migration refers to if a customer has something on Azure, wanting to bring it up on VMware or maybe from VMware to AWS, vice versa.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The console methods make management difficult until VMware tools are installed.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
At Layer 7, the load balancing does not have many features compared to other technologies such as NetScaler from Citrix or F5.
Ingeniero De Preventa De Cloud Y Servicios Profesionales at licenciasonline
 

Setup Cost

CloudAware's setup and licensing costs are reasonable, with straightforward renewals and manageable monthly user fees enhancing onboarding experiences.
VMware Cloud Director is costly but considered valuable for its features and flexibility, with varying licensing models and discounts.
The pricing was fair given the feature set.
Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital
Our initial licensing was smooth, costing approximately $1,000 for basic setup.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
The setup cost was initially about $5,000.
DGM, Content Vertical at Agriculture Skill Council of India
The pricing for VMware Cloud Director is more or less reasonable, especially when compared to Cisco, which is significantly more expensive.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
From a pricing perspective, I would rate VMware Cloud Director as 7 because being the available feature set, Broadcom always offered more price compared to another product.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

CloudAware provides visibility, reduces costs, enhances security, and improves efficiency through automation and multi-cloud integration with customizable dashboards.
VMware Cloud Director offers efficient multitenancy, user autonomy, flexibility, scalability, and robust security features in a user-friendly interface.
We have workload running in Kubernetes, Docker, EC2, RDS. I need a single platform that will monitor all these services which are being running in the cloud platform.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
CloudAware's best feature is that it is very easy to integrate with other Oracle Cloud or Google Cloud servers.
Senior Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India
CloudAware has positively impacted us by reducing costs by 10 to 15% and improving compliance reporting speed, saving several hours per audit.
Cloud Engineer at TO THE NEW Digital
A notable feature is the Independent Disk, which allows detaching a virtual drive from one virtual machine and attaching it to another, enabling more flexibility in operations.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
The most valuable feature of VMware Cloud Director is segregating the underlying infrastructure for the end user.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I believe the best feature of VMware Cloud Director is the multitenant capability because I use only one deployment and can configure many clients.
Ingeniero De Preventa De Cloud Y Servicios Profesionales at licenciasonline
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudAware
Ranking in Cloud Management
22nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (22nd)
VMware Cloud Director
Ranking in Cloud Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudAware is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Director is 2.5%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Director2.5%
CloudAware0.5%
Other97.0%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Dr. Vandana Tatra - PeerSpot reviewer
DGM, Content Vertical at Agriculture Skill Council of India
Unified cloud governance has transformed audits and now improves real-time cost control
The best features CloudAware offers include strong IT compliance and governance, which my team appreciates significantly due to our frequent audits. Additionally, the built-in observability has increased transparency across all management levels; everyone now accesses the same set of information promptly. We have optimized our cloud spending by approximately 40 percent in the last two years, as operating on a singular integrated platform simplifies database and asset management while reducing maintenance costs. The observability feature of CloudAware has streamlined our multi-cloud and on-premises visibility, enhancing our IT infrastructure efficiency. With around 20 to 30 people managing daily data from entry to monitoring, tasks that previously took 24 to 48 hours now occur in real-time. My senior management has access to accurate asset tracking and discovery at any moment, which has strengthened our credibility and transparency with clients. Additionally, the introduction of cloud security posture management features, including unique cloud security policies for each asset, has greatly decreased risk and improved threat response automation. We requested a centralized cloud logging reporting system that provides detailed access logs, which has been implemented and is highly valued. CloudAware has positively impacted our organization by becoming the backbone of our cloud operations. It secures our confidential data and optimizes every aspect, from policy compliance to data reporting, enabling us to manage heavy datasets effectively. Our operations have seen increased productivity, allowing us to onboard more clients and deliver multiple projects simultaneously, all while reducing cloud spending by four crores annually.
KuldeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Experienced users benefit from resource isolation and valuable self-service portal while seeing potential in enhanced infrastructure visibility
VMware is not going further with VMware Cloud Director. They are integrating the VMware Cloud Director feature with Aria Automation only for the upcoming versions, primarily with the VCF 9, and slowly they are integrating some of the parts they have already integrated, and they might not continue with VMware Cloud Director in the future. They can make it more granular to ensure hardware-level segregation, the underlying infrastructure level of segregation for the end user, and a separate security boundary where users can access the end-to-end layer. End-to-end layer means my software layer along with the hardware layer. If they want to do a certain level of troubleshooting primarily on the ESXi part, that is what I feel is lacking for now because for an end user accessing the SSP, the underlying infrastructure is a kind of black box for them. For VMware Cloud Director, it can be more comprehensive if we enable public cloud integration as well. In today's date, customers are adopting a multi-cloud environment where VMware Cloud Director is much feasible to leverage the underlying VMware backend architecture. If VMware Cloud Director could be made to have more integration with the public cloud and do the day one, day two jobs for public cloud interface as well, that would be beneficial. Additionally, I recommend leveraging the VMware Cloud Director layer if a customer has a multi-cloud environment and is planning some cross-cloud migration capability. Cross-cloud migration refers to if a customer has something on Azure, wanting to bring it up on VMware or maybe from VMware to AWS, vice versa. In that case, VMware Cloud Director should provide some cross-cloud migration capability as well.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudAware?
The setup cost was initially about $5,000, followed by a monthly cost of approximately $200 to $300 per user, which is manageable for our organization.
What needs improvement with CloudAware?
The CloudAware interface is generally easy to use; however, it can sometimes feel overwhelming for new users, including interns, who struggle with navigation. Additionally, the pricing can be a hur...
What is your primary use case for CloudAware?
CloudAware is used by our team of approximately eight to ten people who simultaneously operate and work on it, fulfilling different types of enterprise-grade cloud management platform requirements ...
Would you change anything about VMware vCloud Director if you could?
VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In...
What is the biggest improvement you saw at your company after you started using VMware vCloud Director?
For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched...
Is vCloud Director convenient for building applications?
When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example: Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services w...
 

Also Known As

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vCloud Director
 

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Sample Customers

Sony, AOL, Thomson Reuters, Pearson
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
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