We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"Good features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"The stability is rock solid."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"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."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"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."
"The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack."
"Sometimes, there is a disconnection that happens between vCloud Director and its underlying VMware vCenter, where the actions are supposed to be taking place, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Operations, CloudStack and VMware Aria Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and Microsoft Configuration Manager.
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