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CloudCheckr vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
CloudCheckr CMx High Security users saw a 25% cost reduction and improved operations with automated invoicing benefits.
Sentiment score
6.5
VMware Cloud Director offers varied ROI, balancing fast efficiency gains with high costs and mixed customer support experiences.
I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
This part has been eliminated and has saved significant effort while ensuring all teams remain aligned at all times.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Ingram's team experienced effective support overall but noted delays and inadequacies in handling complex technical issues.
Sentiment score
6.9
VMware Cloud Director's service is praised for helpfulness and documentation, though technical support experiences mixed reviews regarding efficiency.
The additional support ended up taking longer than expected, with responses that did not meet our need for detailed and technical assistance.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Around 70-80% of issues can be easily troubleshot by public documentation and KB articles.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
CloudCheckr is highly scalable, efficiently managing multiple accounts and environments for enterprises, despite occasional performance issues with large data volumes.
Sentiment score
7.4
VMware Cloud Director offers robust scalability for diverse cloud needs, praised for rapid provisioning and high user capacity.
It scales well for MSPs and large enterprises, allowing for management of hundreds of accounts and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
VMware Cloud Director is quite scalable; I would rate it nine out of ten.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
I would rate scalability for VMware Cloud Director as 8, especially from the on-premises environment.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
CloudCheckr is highly rated for stability, with users noting reliable performance and minimal issues, making it a robust choice.
Sentiment score
7.7
VMware Cloud Director is reliable and resilient, though some integration issues exist; users generally report high stability and performance.
There are occasional problems when trying to increase the parameters of a virtual machine.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
 

Room For Improvement

CloudCheckr requires better pricing clarity, onboarding, performance with large data sets, UI customization, security features, and third-party integrations.
VMware Cloud Director needs better third-party integration, enhanced features, improved GUI, stable components, and clearer documentation.
Another area is drift analysis; there have been complaints about tracking optimization opportunities, such as how to track opportunities identified in January and whether they were resolved in February.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cross-cloud migration refers to if a customer has something on Azure, wanting to bring it up on VMware or maybe from VMware to AWS, vice versa.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The console methods make management difficult until VMware tools are installed.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
 

Setup Cost

CloudCheckr pricing is competitive, usage-based, and offers good value, with enterprises and providers appreciating its cost-effectiveness.
VMware Cloud Director is costly but offers unique features and flexibility, with potential discounts mitigating expenses for some users.
Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing for VMware Cloud Director is more or less reasonable, especially when compared to Cisco, which is significantly more expensive.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
From a pricing perspective, I would rate VMware Cloud Director as 7 because being the available feature set, Broadcom always offered more price compared to another product.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

CloudCheckr offers cost-saving optimization, multi-cloud management, and financial alignment with ease of use for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
VMware Cloud Director provides secure, scalable cloud management with multi-tenancy, automation, and seamless integration for diverse enterprise needs.
CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of VMware Cloud Director is segregating the underlying infrastructure for the end user.
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
A notable feature is the Independent Disk, which allows detaching a virtual drive from one virtual machine and attaching it to another, enabling more flexibility in operations.
Senior System Engineer & Project Manager at TechnoPeak
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudCheckr
Ranking in Cloud Management
21st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (12th), Managed Cloud Services (4th), AI Observability (76th)
VMware Cloud Director
Ranking in Cloud Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudCheckr is 2.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Director is 3.1%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Director3.1%
CloudCheckr2.1%
Other94.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized cloud costs have boosted savings while reporting and user experience still need work
The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts. Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform. Additionally, from an MSP standpoint, there is good ease of deployment, especially the billing and chargeback functionality for a reseller or managed services provider. CloudCheckr has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage multiple customers and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility due to its multi-cloud support. We do not have to worry about jumping from one platform to another, and the better MSP support is beneficial from a billing and chargeback automation standpoint. The integration in compliance helps identify missing areas within our customer environments and improves them. On average, it has helped us provide approximately 15 to 20% savings through right-sizing or idle resource elimination. These are some of the immediate cost savings our customers have experienced after implementing recommendations from the tool.
KuldeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Experienced users benefit from resource isolation and valuable self-service portal while seeing potential in enhanced infrastructure visibility
VMware is not going further with VMware Cloud Director. They are integrating the VMware Cloud Director feature with Aria Automation only for the upcoming versions, primarily with the VCF 9, and slowly they are integrating some of the parts they have already integrated, and they might not continue with VMware Cloud Director in the future. They can make it more granular to ensure hardware-level segregation, the underlying infrastructure level of segregation for the end user, and a separate security boundary where users can access the end-to-end layer. End-to-end layer means my software layer along with the hardware layer. If they want to do a certain level of troubleshooting primarily on the ESXi part, that is what I feel is lacking for now because for an end user accessing the SSP, the underlying infrastructure is a kind of black box for them. For VMware Cloud Director, it can be more comprehensive if we enable public cloud integration as well. In today's date, customers are adopting a multi-cloud environment where VMware Cloud Director is much feasible to leverage the underlying VMware backend architecture. If VMware Cloud Director could be made to have more integration with the public cloud and do the day one, day two jobs for public cloud interface as well, that would be beneficial. Additionally, I recommend leveraging the VMware Cloud Director layer if a customer has a multi-cloud environment and is planning some cross-cloud migration capability. Cross-cloud migration refers to if a customer has something on Azure, wanting to bring it up on VMware or maybe from VMware to AWS, vice versa. In that case, VMware Cloud Director should provide some cross-cloud migration capability as well.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Legal Firm
5%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise36
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudCheckr ?
The recommendation section is pretty helpful.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?
Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair. It was neither inexpensive nor too costly compared to competition, yet it provides goo...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
Areas where CloudCheckr can be improved include simplifying the user experience, as some areas seem complex to my teammates, who felt overwhelmed by the many dashboards available. Another area is d...
Would you change anything about VMware vCloud Director if you could?
VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In...
What is the biggest improvement you saw at your company after you started using VMware vCloud Director?
For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched...
Is vCloud Director convenient for building applications?
When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example: Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services w...
 

Also Known As

CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
vCloud Director
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
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