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AWS Application Migration Service 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Application Migration S...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (7th)
VMware Cloud Director
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Application Migration Service is designed for Cloud Migration and holds a mindshare of 4.4%, up 3.1% compared to last year.
VMware Cloud Director, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 2.8% mindshare, down 6.8% since last year.
Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Application Migration Service4.4%
Nasuni6.2%
IBM Turbonomic6.1%
Other83.3%
Cloud Migration
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Director2.8%
VMware Aria Automation5.6%
VMware Aria Operations4.0%
Other87.6%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Dieudonné-Nsabimana - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultancy Manager at cidns
Integration with other services has improved migration efficiency
A valuable feature is the schema conversion tool, which allows me to migrate databases, for example, from Oracle to Postgres. The service is fully managed by AWS, which makes it better to use the migration services. It is beneficial to enable phased migration, and the service offers easy integration with other AWS services. The integration of AWS Application Migration Service with AWS makes it a good tool for working with AWS services.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The installation process and configuration processes are very straightforward, and in terms of maintenance, it's pretty easy as one person can handle it."
"Live Migration's best feature is that it's free."
"CloudEndure is a product that I recommend to my customers because it's very easy to implement, configure, and use."
"I rate AWS Application Migration Service a nine out of ten overall."
"The CloudEndure feature is most valuable because it is user friendly and very simple."
"Live Migration's best feature is that it's free."
"The most valuable feature is the live, block-to-block replication."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the solution's support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization, it is very handy for monitoring, VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"Simple, scalable, and comprehensive solution for large enterprises"
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"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."
"It helps us provide private cloud solutions to our clients."
 

Cons

"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."
"The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps."
"There are some features in the Migration Factory that could be integrated directly into AWS Application Migration Service."
"We would like to have a disaster recovery feature included in this solution."
"We would like to have a disaster recovery feature included in this solution."
"One drawback to using CloudEndure is that the default is to give one small, lightweight server, which is created in the cloud."
"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."
"One drawback to using CloudEndure is that the default is to give one small, lightweight server, which is created in the cloud."
"In version 6.7, compatibility to migrate VMs from a vCenter to vCloud Director had a problem."
"Improvements could be made in the building feature since there isn't a real building feature associated with the product. We require a building feature to integrate with other solutions."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"Choosing VMware in general, is best in terms of functionality, but it is not necessarily cost effective, as their licensing and setup cost are too high."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For me, the price of the tool is cheap and very good. It is flexible pricing since you pay just for what you use."
"Live Migration's price is good."
"It is better than other solutions out there when it comes to cost."
"vCloud Director is a very expensive solution."
"We are paying around $ 15,000 per month for vCloud Director, and it would be nice if it could be made cheaper."
"If one means a very bad price, and ten means a very good price, I rate the price as a five on a scale of one to ten."
"In certain cases, the price of Cloud Director is quite high, especially with the load balancing and other features they've introduced. That seems quite costly. Overall, for VSPP programming, I think it's okay. However, features like enterprise load balancing and all these other things are very costly."
"I recommend using the Enterprise or Enterprise Plus licenses because they unlock all of the solution's capabilities."
"It enables us to provision new clients more quickly."
"The product is inexpensive compared to other vendors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise36
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudEndure Live Migration?
The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps. Furthermore, I noticed that performance can vary with the source and t...
What is your primary use case for CloudEndure Live Migration?
For the moment, I am using AWS Application Migration Service for database migration. The first use case involves moving from on-premise to EC2 hosts. Additionally, I have worked with multi-region r...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudEndure Live Migration?
The service is not complicated; I find it easy to use. For those considering AWS Application Migration Service, the advice depends on their specific needs. If it involves database migration, especi...
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

CloudEndure Live Migration
vCloud Director
 

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