We performed a comparison between Rapid7 InsightCloudSec 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."Agentless scanning is a possible use with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec."
"The tool provides centralized visibility through dashboards and alerts, allowing customers to receive reports on cloud vulnerabilities and security posture. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec provides customers with a robust understanding of cloud security."
"I find the security frameworks and security tools valuable. I think they're good in the infrastructure of the code security. They are also good at threat protection."
"The tool's most valuable feature is workload protection for Kubernetes and container security. It has agents that identify bugs or lack of security on runtime containers."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"Rapid7 InsightCloudSec could be better at showing dashboards for virtual firewalls and appliances. Compared to other solutions like Palo Alto, this area is not as good. So, they should work on improving this for virtual devices."
"There are a lot of other solutions in the market, not only providing the features of a CSPM, but also CNAPP."
"The tool needs to improve its documentation."
"Technical support could be better. It could also be easier, more user-friendly, and intuitive. The API keys aren't easy to understand, and the cloud layouts aren't intuitive and user-friendly. We should be able to integrate IM governance and APIs into non-compliant workloads like legacy solutions."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"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."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"The solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is ranked 31st in Cloud Management with 3 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is rated 7.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightCloudSec writes "Agentless scanning helps monitor workloads, but the solution needs a better UI and should include CNAPP features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and AWS Security Hub, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our Rapid7 InsightCloudSec vs. vCloud Director report.
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