vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

We are a healthcare establishment. The main essence here is the 24X7X365 availability. This was possible due to virtualization. The best-suited candidate for the virtualization was VMware as the technical resources are easily available in the market. The Virtualization standards offered by VMware are defacto industry norms. This enabled us to have better resiliency and dynamic fail-over cluster for our application server and the databases. Using the virtualizes such as VMware, we achieved HPE SimpliVity Snapshot performance due to the capabilities of vCenter deployment.

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. Automation is the KPI of any IT Lead organization. The healthcare industry is no exception to this. We were able to automate the business logic for provisioning, de-provisioning, HA, and clustering of our virtualized environment. This has reduced the manpower as well. Some more addition to the op-ex reduction of the organization.

VMware vSphere includes the components and features that fulfill most of the imaginations of a Virtualization expert. A virtualization layer that runs on physical servers that abstracts processor, memory, storage, and resources into multiple virtual machines. The central point for configuring, provisioning, and managing virtualized IT environments. 

The essence that is served is on the spot provisioning of the compute nodes and infrastructure in a virtualized manner

Effective time saving, diminished manual errors, complex IT workflow, and reduced operational cost has resulted in increasing our IT Application Service value proposition by many folds

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.

As a customer and a DC Architect, it would be great if more self-learning resources are made available online. One on one sessions from VM ware for rapidly growing organizations like us will further strengthen the intent of embracing the product portfolio from VMWare. A couple of the pointer in this regards can be as below: 

1. Quarterly technology reviews from the OEM.

2. Consultation and handholding

3. Opex Model

I have been using vCenter for two years.

It is very reliable and stable.

Performance of the solution is as planned on the drawing board.

The support from OEM and the Vendor has been good, though it was required only a few times at the very initial stages.

We have always been with VMware.

The implementation was straightforward.

Implemented through a vendor team. The expertise of Vintech was far above the expectation. A sure shot A+.

It generally meets expectations. The pricing could be a little better.

Acropolis from Nutanix.

The solution is being used for its logs. 

The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool. 

A feature to review and setup tasks should be added. 

I have been using vCenter Orchestrator since 2020. 

It is a stable Solution. I rate the solution eight out of ten. 

It is a scalable solution. There are less than ten users using the solution. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten. 

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes some few hours.  I rate the setup a nine out of ten.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten. 

I like the tool's DNS feature. 

The solution's price could be cheaper. 

I have been using the solution for two years. 

The product is stable. 

vCenter Orchestrator is scalable. The server is located in four to five locations. 

vCenter Orchestrator's setup is very straightforward. If the setup is small, it can be completed in two days. 

I would rate vCenter Orchestrator a nine out of ten. 

Since we have a data center, we use vCenter Orchestrator for process automation.

vCenter Orchestrator is very integrated with VMware. Because of the central management, the scripting engine and workflow engine are integrated with VMware without any burden to integrate different products.

The response time of vCenter Orchestrator's support could be improved. You're good when you get a knowledgeable person who knows things, but their response time is slow.

I have been working with vCenter Orchestrator for four or five years.

I rate vCenter Orchestrator a nine out of ten for stability.

I rate vCenter Orchestrator a nine out of ten for scalability. Around 10 people use the solution in our organization.

vCenter Orchestrator technical support is not bad, but they have to improve their response time.

Neutral

I rate vCenter Orchestrator an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

Since we have a big environment, vCenter Orchestrator's deployment took a few days. Three people were involved in the solution's deployment.

vCenter Orchestrator is an expensive solution. I rate vCenter Orchestrator an eight out of ten for pricing.

I use the latest version of vCenter Orchestrator.

I would recommend vCenter Orchestrator to other users. You have to understand beforehand what kind of processes you want to orchestrate and automate with it. If you think about what you'll do with it before you install it, you'll have a better view of how to implement it in the best way.

Overall, I rate vCenter Orchestrator an eight out of ten.

vCenter gives overall control of virtual methods.

The solution is user-friendly and easy to deploy.

The licensing cost could be reduced, it's quite expensive. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

The customer support is very friendly and helpful. 

The initial setup is straightforward and took a few hours. We used a consultant for the deployment and it required one engineer. 

This is a good solution and from a performance perspective I rate it 10 out of 10. 

We use the on-premise deployment model. 

vCenter is our primary resource for all our U.S. Enterprises. It's the central place for the VMs we are using as our servers. 

Storage has room for improvement. It's a big problem for our solution. The interface also needs improvement, it should be simplified.   

They should integrate more storage systems for the replication. There should be an integrated replication tool. We have two sites and we want to have the data between the sites and all the data replicated. There is no ability to do that now. You have to buy this ability from another vendor.

It's very expensive. The quality of the product is fine, it's good quality but the price is very high.

In the next release, they should have better data synchronization between different brands and hardware so that you can replicate two data stores. VMware should maintain decent replication. There's no synchronization between VMware and different brands. For example, one installment from Dell and one installment from HP should be able to synchronize their data.

It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems.

We haven't needed to contact their technical support. We have to pay for support but it should be free. 

The initial setup was straightforward, it's not complex.

There are not many partners for this solution in our area. We would need to go to Barcelona for that. 

We also looked at Microsoft Hyper-V. 

I would rate it a nine out of ten. 

vCenter Orchestrator is a user-friendly and straightforward product.

The product’s cost needs improvement. Not all organizations can spend huge amounts of money to orchestrate the operation. In comparison, KVM is less expensive and has similar functionality. It could be integrated with other products and technologies than VMware.

The product is stable.

It is a scalable product.

The technical support services are excellent.

Positive

I use Ansible to automate workload management for third-party products and heterogeneous environments. In comparison, vCenter Orchestrator can be used to manage only VMware infrastructure.

The initial setup process is easy if you follow the proper procedure with the correct steps and prerequisites.

I rate vCenter Orchestrator an eight out of ten. If you have only VMware cloud, then vCenter Orchestrator is the right fit for your business requirements. You should look for other compatible tools if you have a heterogeneous environment, including public clouds like OpenStack or OpenShift.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it offers a single dashboard, so you don't have to go to multiple places to do multiple things.

The snapshot technology of VMware is not good compared to other solutions in the market, like Nutanix. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.

I have been using vCenter Orchestrator for a year or two. I recommend vCenter Orchestrator to my company's customers. I am unsure of the version I use.

Performance-wise, vCenter Orchestrator is a very good solution since it remains very stable.

In my company, we have one data center with two or three data servers that manage the solution. One administrator is required to look after the solution.

In my company, we haven't used the technical support provided by VMware. I believe our clients will need help from VMware's technical support.

I use products similar to vCenter Orchestrator from Nutanix.

With VMware, you need to purchase each of their solutions separately. When it comes to Nutanix, everything comes under a single bundle, making it a very good solution requiring very little licensing, even though the price may fall in the upper end of the spectrum. The aforementioned details of Nutanix make it easy for my company to propose it to our customers.

The problem with vCenter Orchestrator is that our company has to pay more since we have to buy it as a separate product from VMware. Our customers wonder why our company proposes to them to buy too many solutions when there are alternatives in the market, allowing them to buy or choose a single solution with everything they need. Though we end up proposing vCenter Orchestrator to our customers, they ultimately end up buying three or four products along with it, and it becomes difficult for our company to give an explanation.

The implementation phase for vCenter Orchestrator was easy.

The solution is deployed on-premises mostly since our customers use it in banks.

A trial version of the solution would be good since it can showcase those features that can be utilized and how everything can be made available on a single dashboard. Once a customer gets a hands-on experience with the solution, they will start feeling comfortable and may start liking the product.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.