We performed a comparison between vCenter Orchestrator and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."
"It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines."
"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."
"The backup and recovery times are very quick."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is complete, and you don't need any add-ons."
"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"The self-service portal is the most valuable. We are acting as a service provider, so our customers can take care of their virtual data centers with the self-service portal. Therefore, we don't need staff for it."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The tool is very stable."
"There are some update-related issues with the product."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."
"The solution's price could be cheaper."
"The licensing is expensive and should be improved."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"I would like to see more automation added in the future."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"vCloud Director should include better billing options for businesses like mine or more options for customers to see their usage and billing situation regarding the usage of vCloud Director."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco UCS Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, CloudStack and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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