vCloud Director Reviews

I use the solution to redeploy sales and achieve standby sales.

Kubernetes, Container Service Extension, vRealize Operations, and Object Storage Extension are some of the most valuable features of the solution.

Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster. The solution should also improve their documentation.

I have been using the solution for eight months.

The product is stable for now.

The product is scalable. The product allows us to add or remove features. My team and many of our clients use the product.

The technical support provides fast response.

Neutral

The initial setup was moderately complex.

The deployment did not take a long time. The employees in the cloud engineering team deployed the solution. We need five employees from the cloud team to maintain the solution.

Our employees mostly have experience in AWS and Azure, but they do not have any experience in VMware. The product is as good as AWS. We faced issues while integrating our infrastructure with other servers.

Before joining the company, I was working with OpenStack. My job is dedicated to VMware. My company and I need to increase the productivity of our cloud environment. People planning to use the solution should read the documentation very well to understand VMware and how it works. VMware provides good documentation. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We use this solution to manage our virtual machines and basic settings.

We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director.

We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve.

I've been dealing with this solution for two to three years.

I'm pretty happy with the stability of this solution.

The licensing costs are pretty high, but it might depend on the size of the company.

I would rate vCloud Director at nine on a scale from one to ten.

This solution is used for hosting customers and providing multi-tenancy so that we can have shared infrastructures used by multiple customers.

We have our own organization. We have a private cloud that we host, and we onboard customers on that private cloud.

It's a cloud-based solution.

There are currently more than 40 customers that are hosted on the private cloud across the US, UK, and Canada.

The most valuable features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration. It's very efficient. The virtual machine deployment and segregation of customers due to multi-tenancy is also very simplified. That is the reason we chose this product for hosting the private cloud.

The integration between components could be improved. The cloud solution does not comprise a single product. If you look at Azure or AWS, they have tightly integrated all the components in the backend, and they just provide a UI. With VMware, we just have to integrate all products of VMware together and then provide a UI to the customer. 

If some component of the UI isn't working, in the backend we have to find out, is this vCloud availability the problem? Or is RabbitMQ the problem? This kind of integration is supposed to be done by the service provider, but the integration should be pretty tight between all the components, which form a private cloud.

I have been using this solution for almost 12 years.

The stability is good but not excellent because of the interoperability between different components of VMware products, which form a private cloud. The interoperability needs to be improved between the different components of the private cloud.

Scalability-wise, it's a pretty good product. We can scale to multiple regions, and we can also increase the number of sales as required. If the customers in a specific region are too many and there is a lot of access, we just need to add more vCloud Director sales for customers.

Technical support needs to improve because the private cloud is comprised of multiple solutions. A customer has to log to identify which product is having problems, and then log a call with a vendor. The support from the vendor is not very good. For some of the cases, we have to chase them for almost a month to get a resolution.

We previously used VLS Automation earlier and multi-tenancy was also quite simple over there, but the only thing was the SSO integration with the multi-tenancy was not consistent. That's the reason we switched from VLS Automation to the private cloud, vCloud Director.

Initial setup was pretty simple. For deployment, we used three or four people across six regions.

We use around 25 people to maintain the solution across six regions.

We pay monthly for all of the licenses.

I would rate this solution 7 out of 10.

We use it for infrastructure provisioning such as providing machines and monitoring with logging and so forth.

We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services.

The licenses themselves are not costly.

We are a service provider, and every day, new customers come to us needing advanced features like platform features. For example, some of them need a managed hosting setup like Beanstalk, or some of them need microservices, like container or Kubernetes, or serverless types of things. So we are in discussions with the concerned teams at VMware in order to incorporate the platform services for next year.

There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products. We are not happy with the frequent upgrades. Because we are a government department, we find it quite difficult to accommodate the frequent changes. What we would like is for the changes to be less frequent, at least twice a year or once a year, so that we can accommodate that in our budget plans. We make budgets annually, not quarterly. I think they need to have a better roadmap for future offerings and future technologies.

I've been using vCloud Director for two years.

Every quarter or after every quarter, they release new versions and new upgrades. If we don't do the new upgrades, it causes stability issues.

We currently rely on VMware for deployment, and they portray it as a complex process that needs a lot of judges.

It's a costly product. The licenses may not be costly, but with every new development in their product, we need to purchase deployment services, and the deployment services are quite costly.

The public cloud and the hosted cloud solutions are going in parallel, and some countries have the requirement to host the data locally. Most of the organizations who don't have these compliance requirements go for the public cloud, but I would say that hiring and retaining skilled resources matters a lot. Because if you have skilled, experienced resources, then things will be easy for you, but if you can't retain the skilled resources and things are quite complex, then you will need to accept all of the company's conditions.

Overall, we are happy with the product, so I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use it and have several customers who use it. 

It has performed well. We don't have any real problems with it.

The product helped us get more customers, so that worked out quite well. It saves us a lot of time provisioning new clients.

vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works. We don't have to worry about it. We maintain the platform, and our customers take care of the rest.

I am happy with the data protection.

So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well.

I always worry about disaster recovery. I can't afford for it to break.

It is very scalable, which is one of the reasons that we use it. We have not had to increase the resources that we have thrown at it yet. However, when we do, the process should be straightforward.

We have never really needed any technical support. 

When we were first creating the cloud, we asked for some input from some VMware specialists. Since then, we haven't had any issues.

We were using VMware already, then some of our customers asked if we could give them a cloud solution

In the end, the initial setup was straightforward, but we had to try to do it a few times.

There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next. There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup.

We used a consultant for the deployment.

We had experience with VMware, so we stuck with VMware.

I would recommend VMware and vCloud Director, if they want to go cloud.

The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization.

The solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve.

I have been using vCloud Director for approximately two years.

The solution has high availability.

The support that is provided is good.

The initial setup of vCloud Director is straightforward and takes approximately two days.

We use three or four network and infrastructure teams for the deployment of the solution.

The price of the solution is expensive.

I rate vCloud Director an eight out of ten.

The tool needs to add more features to improve the console. 

I have been working with the product for ten years. 

The tool is very stable. 

The product is scalable. 

Customer support is usually good. 

Positive

The tool's setup is straightforward. The product's deployment is fast and gets completed in a week. A full deployment can take around one to two months to complete. Only two to three people are required to handle the deployment. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten.