We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) 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."The file server feature in Nutanix is very good, offering a solution-worthy feature that can host files, blocks, and object storage in the same cluster."
"Moreover, the deployment process was so easy and smooth that post rack and stack and management IP configuration, it just took less than 2 days to configure the cluster of 40 nodes, upgrade the firmware, create file service and VM space and integrate with our infrastructure."
"The solution expands easily."
"I also like the fact that the solution manages itself. It has one interface where you can basically see all your servers. So, you can manage your servers and see whether you are falling short on space or disc usage. Also, in case your RAM is only using four Gigabytes of memory instead of eight, you can extend out the over-provisioned mail and save your cluster for four Giga of RAM."
"The solution has automated reports and workflows. You can configure it to automatically send out reports to the business units responsible for managing cloud costs, so you don't need to log into the tool to get information. Cost Governance's user interface and dashboards are beautiful. The customers love it because it's easy to use. They can run it and get a report an hour later to immediately see the savings."
"The ability to do Layer 2 stretching across data centers is valuable. The migration of VMs from one location to the other is also valuable."
"The most valuable features are the compliance features and the chargebacks."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Manager is the flexibility we're finding in expanding our technology and our support."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"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."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"Nutanix is one of two stacks where you can run everything you like. It would be nice if you could run it without the Nutanix appliance. Some clients don't use Nutanix engineering server hardware, so it would be helpful to run the Nutanix software for demos and tests."
"Even though it's a lot easier, it could be a bit slicker for the end-users. The ability to create their own blueprints could be without their having to understand the details of what they're trying to do. If they could just tick this, this, this, and this — whatever they need — and it would go spinning those up, that would be better. Now, we still guide them quite a bit."
"In this solution, it is difficult to organize the VM folders and subfolders."
"Our sister company currently uses an outdated database technology, Sybase, which presents challenges in migrating to a newer database. Despite our efforts to encourage them to move to a different database, the company's 25 years of code and data basic make it difficult to do so. We are open to any level of support or guidance that can help us manage the Sybase database, even if it's not a fully managed solution. Direction on how to scale, improve, and optimize tables and queries within Sybase would be greatly appreciated."
"It will be better if they can extend this to non-AHV hypervisors and also non-Nutanix clusters so that people who need this feature but can not goto HCI currently can make use of this product."
"I think one of the points to improve is having the platform with multiple languages, for example Spanish, seriously, one point to consider is a valid point for me, my native language is Spanish, being in Venezuela."
"I would like to see it be able to apply a category to a project, and then have that category applied to all the VMs that are deployed within a project."
"We have had our fair share of issues while upgrading early on, but the process now is working flawlessly."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid 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."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 3rd in Cloud Management with 72 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "An intuitive and easy-to-learn product that saves cost and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with Morpheus, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Operations, OpenNebula and Nutanix Prism, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations, CloudStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs. vCloud Director report.
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