vCloud Director Valuable Features
I like the networking and the flexibility of handling workloads within vCloud Director for virtual data center management.
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reviewer1155024
Head of Transport & Data Networks Engineering Department at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Initially, vCloud Director appeared less flexible than its predecessor, v3, facing bugs and synchronization issues with virtualization. However, recent updates have significantly improved stability and functionality. Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions.
The solution is a very robust tool.
The orchestration and automation are very valuable.
The GUI console is very easy to use.
The solution allows for multi-tenants in a single, shared space and that is valuable to customers.
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vCloud Director
March 2024
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The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter.
Multiple events can be managed in the solution's environment.
It is easy to leverage the capabilities for server and network virtualization.
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Santosh Akkula
CIO at airtel
The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built.
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reviewer2320629
Support Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms. It enables users to do more with their virtual machines and disks, making it a simpler and more versatile solution.
What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy.
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Pramod Pawar
Architect Product Engineering at SunGard Availability Services
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.
View full review »The platform's most valuable feature is security.
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reviewer2351076
Technical Team Leader - Microsoft at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
vCloud Director is a stable solution.
View full review »The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud.
View full review »The solution has a user friendly interface. It's easy for us to provide services to customers and our customers find the UI easy too. The solution is reliable and performs well.
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Chris Magee
Pre-Sales Engineer at Secura
The scalability is amazing. It gives our customers the options that they need. If they suddenly need to add more resources, they don't need to plan for it. They just need to pay us for it, and we can extend it for them.
It's good giving the customers power. Thus, if a customer wants to reboot their server or if their server is hung, they don't need to give us a call. They simply need to log into their portal and reboot it.
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reviewer2180859
Cloud Administrator at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Kubernetes, Container Service Extension, vRealize Operations, and Object Storage Extension are some of the most valuable features of the solution.
View full review »We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director.
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Kashif Fayyaz
Divisional Engineer at National Telecom Corporatio
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.
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ITAdmin58981
IT Administrator with 201-500 employees
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.
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AmjadBanna
Computer Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization.
View full review »The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation.
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Ronald Van Staden
Director at Silicon Sky Consulting LLC
Our customers host their applications with us like they would host it with AWS or Azure. So, in terms of that, the most valuable part of the product for us is the ease of creating resources for them to run their applications and infrastructure for doing business.
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Peter De Boer
Senior Engineer with 501-1,000 employees
- Its simplicity
- It is powerful.
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Kirill Naumenko
Head of R&D Department at GigaCloud
We have found the multi-tenants to be a valuable feature.
I think that the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features are the future. We work with the cloud Availability product. We want our clients to use it but we have had a lot of problems with it so we'll wait for the next version.
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Rasoul Askari
OS & Servers Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
For vCloud we use a private cloud. In a distributed system, CapEx and OpEx are better. In storage, when you use a stand-alone system you have to pay much more than with a distributed system. With a storage system rather than stand-alone systems you have to pay much more than a distributed system.
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OSMNGR346
OSS Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We like that it's multi-tenant, is supported, that it evolves with time and allows us to offer services to our enterprise customers in the B2B segment
The self-service features have been very valuable to our organization. We are a service provider so we push access to our customers so that they can self-serve. With every version, it evolves more. It gets better with time.
It allows us to provision new clients faster because we also automate with CLI which is a valuable feature for us.
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Avi Saadi
System Administrator at Bezeq
We are using it like a virtual data center for customers with all the benefits.
View full review »The real multi tenancy and distributed administration for vDCs is the goal of this product, which combines consuming resources as a service with a great governance model for different customers.
Suppose you need to build one or more virtual datacenter, and meet the demands of customers, supplier and departments. In a traditional architecture (vCenter and esxi hosts) you need hard integration work to answer this problem.
vCloud director solves this problem weaving computational resources, storage and networking with consumption requests from companies, departments and individual operators in a dynamic and safe way.
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Abdulaziz Abanmy
System admin
We have found the whole suite of cloud applications to be the most valuable features. If you start a cloud, either private or hybrid, it will support you and you will get more features. It covers support in terms of computing, networking, and everything.
The self-service feature has helped migrate a new customer from on-premise infrastructure to on-cloud.
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Jordan Donley
Technical Services Team Lead at Novosco
My impression of the data protection, data recovery, and container features is that they're all very good, I like them. Although I don't particularly have a use case for them within our company. It's very expensive but it's something we've looked into.
I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off.
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Ivan Skopar
Engineer at T-Systems
We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots.
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reviewer1382925
Senior Professional Services Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility.
It's easy to manage, it's stable, there are fewer bugs, and the version is upgradable.
We are using 8.0 which is going out of support and will need to upgrade to 10, which would not take much time to upgrade.
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SeniorCl2ed7
Senior Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features for us are that our customers can create their own data center. At the moment we don't use vCloud Director for data protection or disaster recovery. We are thinking about seeing the demo for vCloud Director and to implement the data next year.
The self-service capabilities have allowed our customers to have their own templates and to deploy from those templates.
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- Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process).
- Support for Windows desktop OS's (mostly used as test machines for software development companies).
- Resource pool payment model (pay for resources instead of paying for hourly use).
vCloud Director: To name a few, ease of use, robust security and easy extensibility to VMware's Hybrid cloud platform; VMware vCloud Air and public cloud space.
vCAC (vCloud Automation Center): Now known as 'vRealize Automation' is the best in class, high profile automation for your cloud workflows. Vendor neutral; Apart from VMware Cloud suits, it can be used with other vendor cloud platforms like Amazon, OpenStack, Azure etc.
vROps (vCenter Operations Manager): Now known as 'vRealize Operations'; vROps is the best in class most granular, high penetration monitoring, investigative and troubleshooting tool for your Cloud, datacenter, VDI environments Used for Capacity planning, Performance monitoring and troubleshooting etc.
vSphere: vSphere being the foundation for vCloud, there are many takeaways; Long distance vMotion, HA, FT, DRS, Storage DRS, Storage profiles, dual heartbeat in cluster environments. 4X capacity increase in 6.0 compared to version 5. vCenter Server Appliance now has the same scalability numbers as the Windows installable vCenter Server: 1,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines. FT now supports 4 vCPUs VMs and 64GB memory with Storage redundancy.
View full review »The most valuable features of course is resiliency between data centers and within the data center and application availability for our enterprise environments and also to help our business be a leader in our industry which has helped us for growth based on our quality of infrastructure.
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Ajit Yadav
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
One valuable feature is the true multitenancy capabilities for the core infrastructure service that Cloud Director provides.
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SeniorSo53e6
Senior Solution Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees
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 consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features.
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Architec1b8b
Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The multi-tenancy feature is very important for us from a service perspective. The recent new capabilities are a huge step forward for this product.
The data protection, disaster recovery, and container features are limited but evolving as well. We use some third party products for data protection and disaster recovery.
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Ajit Yadav
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I think it's a wonderful product. I like the latest features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services and enables us to go beyond infrastructure as a service. We are now in a position where we can also offer platform as a service to our customers. That's a really wonderful feature. Extensibility allows service providers to extend their existing services and integrate them within the vCloud, offering a feature with an overall solution to customers.
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Dan Belmonte Alcaraz
Solutions Engineer at NTT Com MS
The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud Director. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice.
View full review »Ability to give our developers a self-service environment, where they can go on particular portal and deploy their own systems.
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Engineerinfo98876
Java Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the fact that it's a VMware product. The majority of our customers already have this product on-prem; they are happy to use the same solution also in our cloud environment.
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Ahmed Ibrahim Aloulah
VMware Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
ESG is one of the most valuable features. It deals with networking, traffic, and the security of some features like load balancer.
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Simple, scalable, and comprehensive solution for large enterprises
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Flexibility – it allows me to adapt the product to all student needs.
View full review »The orchestrator is the most valuable feature.
View full review »The physical segmentation of networking and security.
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ICTspe3287
ICT specialist
It is fast at deploying environments and good for segmenting users.
View full review »It has easy to deploy machines.
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+ Great cloud services platform
+ A natural extension to the virtualization layer
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reviewer1080351
Senior Project Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A most valuable feature of the solution is that it provides a multi-tenant platform.
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vCloud Director
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about vCloud Director. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.