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vCenter Orchestrator pros and cons

Vendor: VMware
4.2 out of 5
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Pros & Cons summary

vCenter Orchestrator faces criticism for its complexity and cost, requiring experienced users, and has integration challenges with third-party vendors and cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. Despite issues such as slow technical support and insufficient debugging capacity, it offers valuable benefits, including a hardware abstraction layer for VM portability, DRS for workload balance, workflow automation, and seamless application integration. Its excellent support team enhances user experience through informative knowledge base articles.

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PROS

vCenter Orchestrator provides a hardware abstraction layer, making VMs portable across different platforms or over a WAN.
Integration with technical support is excellent, offering access to a helpful knowledge base.
The platform is stable and reliable, with no reported bugs, ensuring seamless operation.
vCenter Orchestrator excels in workflow automation and integration with third-party applications.
Scalability and network configuration features allow for easy network expansion and migration of entire networks.

CONS

vCenter Orchestrator is considered too expensive, with the price being a major issue for users.
Users face difficulties integrating vCenter Orchestrator with third-party vendors, limiting its compatibility.
Technical support for vCenter Orchestrator needs improvement, with slow response times and inadequate escalation of issues.
vCenter Orchestrator has limited automation capabilities and could benefit from increased automation features.
Licensing and pricing changes have made vCenter Orchestrator more expensive, impacting its accessibility for different company sizes.
 

vCenter Orchestrator Pros review quotes

MuhammadChishti - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 2, 2024
The product's initial setup phase was easy.
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LS
Apr 30, 2022
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.
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David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 12, 2024
The stability of the product is very good.
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SB
Sep 25, 2023
The most valuable feature for us is the performance stability of vCenter Orchestrator, especially in complex situations, making it excellent for managing virtual machines.
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NB
Jul 8, 2025
The positive impact I have seen from using vCenter Orchestrator includes benefits such as cluster and versioning, frequent updates, and updates on the Dell side.
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MustafaKafi - PeerSpot reviewer
May 19, 2022
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.
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reviewer1962426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 14, 2022
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.
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AM
Aug 18, 2019
The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one.
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UD
Jul 17, 2020
The open, flexible architecture has brought in the agile computing environment along with better Dr capabilities. Automation management and operational tasks across VMware and third-party applications, like our HMIS and other business productivity applications, have delivered peace of mind.
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reviewer1099521 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 15, 2019
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.
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vCenter Orchestrator Cons review quotes

MuhammadChishti - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 2, 2024
I believe vCenter Orchestrator should be part of VMware vSphere's basic bundle. As a product, vCenter Orchestrator should not be licensed at all because the world has progressed way beyond what it can offer.
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LS
Apr 30, 2022
Many times, customers' licenses are not used because the client is not aware of the features and the product benefits. When somebody is buying a product, they just do a default configuration.
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David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 12, 2024
There are some update-related issues with the product.
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SB
Sep 25, 2023
We would like more flexibility in sizing data storage and virtual machines, as the current options aren't very adaptable.
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MustafaKafi - PeerSpot reviewer
May 19, 2022
VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process.
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reviewer1962426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 14, 2022
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.
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AM
Aug 18, 2019
It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price.
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UD
Jul 17, 2020
It is practically difficult at this stage to really comment on the improvisations of V central. But more tech events and PoC cases would help the EA to design better solutions and utilization.
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reviewer1099521 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 15, 2019
As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well.
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reviewer1651380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2021
There can be compatibility issues.
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