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VMware Cloud Director pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom

4.0 out of 5

69 reviews
93% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

VMware Cloud Director offers robust multi-tenancy, integration with vSAN, NSX, and vCenter, and automation features that enhance cloud management efficiency. Despite its stability and scalability, hyperscaler integration limitations, complex setup, and high pricing pose challenges. Technical support issues and integration difficulties with third-party solutions affect user experience. VMware Cloud Director remains a reliable choice due to its comprehensive features, but buyers should consider associated costs and potential support delays.

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PROS

Remote console allows controlling booting and OS installation process.

VMware provides excellent technical support available 24/7.

vCloud Director supports seamless replication of VMs between data centers.

vCloud Director is highly reliable and scalable with multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration.

Integration with vSAN, NSX, and vROps enhances functionality and compatibility.

CONS

Lacks integration with hyperscalers, leading to limited cloud integration compared to Amazon and Azure.

Technical support has been problematic, with critical issues sometimes going unresolved in a timely manner.

Initial setup is complex and often requires experienced personnel to manage installation and deployment.

Pricing is high, which has led some users to switch to alternatives like Microsoft Intune due to cost concerns.

Lacks robust integration with third-party solutions, particularly in networking and data security.

VMware Cloud Director Pros review quotes

Technical Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 25, 2013

Great cloud services platform

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Director of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 27, 2013

Simple, scalable, and comprehensive solution for large enterprises

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Consultor TI with 51-200 employees

Mar 29, 2015

It has easy to deploy machines.

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Technical Lead Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

May 19, 2015

Creating a virtual machine is relatively easy, VMware provides a pretty standard catalog of virtual machines.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

May 28, 2015

Via the Meet the Expert sessions I spoke to Ninad Desai and Gurusimran Khalsa from VMware who were both very helpful (thanks guys) and I even tried the VMware stand in the Solutions Exchange but they didn’t have anyone to talk about vCD.

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Presales Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 24, 2015

It helps us provide private cloud solutions to our clients.

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Virtual Systems Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 29, 2015

Technical support’s wonderful; whenever we find an issue, we submit a ticket and they resolve it within an hour usually.

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Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 29, 2015

You can't go wrong with VMware.

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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 31, 2015

We’ve already deployed three-tiered applications with just a push of a button to deploy from dev to staging to production.

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Lead Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 31, 2015

There have been 6 major releases and 16 minor releases which backs up one of my biggest claims around platform maturity and as to why vCloud Director is the best Cloud Management Platform on the market when it comes to the abstraction of vSphere resources and presenting pools of compute, storage and networking via a true multi-tenant interface.

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VMware Cloud Director Cons review quotes

Technical Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 25, 2013

Platform maturity and interoperability required

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Director of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 27, 2013

Pricing can be beyond their budgets.

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Consultor TI with 51-200 employees

Mar 29, 2015

I think VMware has abandoned the product and with vSphere 5.5, vCloud Director is an obsolete solution.

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Technical Lead Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

May 19, 2015

I'm rather mixed. It is dead simple, but it still feels like duct taped solutions in a lot of aspects.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

May 28, 2015

Even if there are some transition scripts or similar to help move certain aspects of functionality the transition is going to be a painful process.

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Presales Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 24, 2015

Choosing VMware in general, is best in terms of functionality, but it is not necessarily cost effective, as their licensing and setup cost are too high.

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Virtual Systems Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 29, 2015

Better GUI as they don’t hold with the programs that well. Better user interfaces in general. Both the administrative and user interfaces need to be better.

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Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 29, 2015

I feel like vCloud is two years behind the feature set – in terms of the UI, and vCenter. I can't do the same tasks that I can do in terms of UI as with vCenter.

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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 31, 2015

It loses points because things are moving so quickly that it has yet to catch up.

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Lead Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 31, 2015

Without API capabilities this feature can’t be accessed…however I don’t see a great amount of value in this particular feature as in general SPs doing their own provisioning do so off workflows that take into consideration self service vDC profiles.

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