We performed a comparison between SkyKick Cloud Manager and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."Technical support has been good."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"The DRS feature from VMware is very valuable to us because it balances workloads."
"What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier through automation. People can request to automate all processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs."
"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy."
"In regards to the workflows, the fact that we can actually have a full dashboard library of all the existing workflows on this is great. We can see all the workflows and what all the actions do and can work with scripts."
"We can scale the solution."
"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."
"The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"This is an expensive solution."
"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"I liked the previous client better than the current web client of vCenter Orchestrator, though my colleagues like the client now. The technical support for vCenter Orchestrator needs improvement."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution."
SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.
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