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."It offers high availability and consistency."
"The most valuable features are the compliance features and the chargebacks."
"The ease of use is a valuable feature. For us, it's a consistent interface. It's very easy to train our employees on it, and it's a newer generation interface. It's homogeneous, and every product and subset tie together, giving a very similar look to everything."
"The most valuable feature is less or no implementation time. It should be up and running at any point in time so I don't spend time in transformation."
"The self-service capabilities allow us to orchestrate our deployments without writing code, and they also use artificial intelligence to improve our security posture."
"I like the analytics and the interface. Nutanix is easy to deploy and manage."
"The fact that these are non-technical people — they're experts in their fields but they're definitely not technical — and they can just log in to the portal and select the resource that they believe they need, and manage it themselves, speaks to the ease of use. It shows them their live costs, etc., as they're spending. The fact that they can do that without any problems, or having to engage the IT teams, is a true testament to it. There's no need for any user training at all."
"We use Calm's one-click self-service feature and it's really transforming the team's efficiency. The teams are used to being reactive, which is typical of what you find in IT organizations and service providers. Customers run into problems and teams react. What we're trying to do is reduce that slope and be more proactive in approach. The one-click ability is enabling us to take some of those activities and put them into operation, versus people manually responding."
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"It has helped us with user segmentation and QA."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"The tool is very stable."
"The most valuable features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration."
"Recently, I have had quite a few issues with Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT). When you do a full update from LCM, your NGT doesn't automatically install on your VMs. You need to go back to Prism Central and select a list of VMs, then install NGT. You need to go to each of those VMs, then restart them to get the NGT installed. Also, there are some VMs that we have on our system that we used to run on an old environment, which was Hyper-V. Previously, we had VMware, so some of our VMs are Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit. However, the NGT no longer allows for installations on those."
"In Brazil, Nutanix Cloud Manager is not cheap."
"There have been bugs. We've seen what looked like some storage inefficiencies in reports and, when we went in to look, we found they were false alarms. That was something they corrected on the fly."
"NCM's analytics could be better because we're not getting an accurate analysis of our virtual machines, and we're over-provisioning some of them."
"For Nutanix, there are options to go with different types of hardware vendors for using the AOS operating system. We can deploy it on Dell, Lenovo, or IBM servers. If Nutanix had its own server, it would be good."
"Compatibility with multiple clouds and a single control would help us. We are also getting onto GCP, and there is limited compatibility with GCP in the areas we need. We are using GCP primarily for data analytics."
"The licensing procedures are not smooth and easy."
"The support provided after office hours could use some improvement."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"In version 6.7, compatibility to migrate VMs from a vCenter to vCloud Director had a problem. However, this has been solved in the newest version."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
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 Cisco Intersight, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Morpheus, CloudStack, VMware Aria Operations and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs. vCloud Director report.
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