vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

The most valuable feature of the solution is availability.

The solution’s pricing and integration could be improved.

I have been working with vCenter Orchestrator since 2014.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

Installing the solution is very easy if you have experience with the tool.

vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution. If you talk with customers about other solutions like Nutanix, their prices are also very high.

If you have an existing VMware solution, integrating it into another solution is not easy. However, if you have a small company with a VMware solution, you can easily change it because you also need experience with other solutions.

I would recommend the solution to other users because VMware is a big company with very good licensing. More people can choose VMware as it provides good features available to new customers.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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.

The most valuable features of the solution are the workflows.

I have seen vCenter Orchestrator evolving a lot over the years, making it quite handy. I don't see any areas for improvement in the product. It has already improved a lot over the years.

The product lacks GUIs. The tool should have more GUIs available, along with easier product documentation.

I have been using vCenter Orchestrator for a couple of years. Though I don't directly use vCenter Orchestrator, I provide training sessions and use VMware products most of the time. My customers use the solution. I am a technical trainer who teaches others VMware technologies. My company has a partnership with VMware.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

I recommend the product for medium to large-scale enterprises.

Smaller enterprises might not have the kind of use cases for vCenter Orchestrator, so they might have to go through a bit of a steep learning curve from deployment and use case perspectives.

I have no idea about how my customers get full of technical support. Most of the time, I do not come across any complaints related to technical support, so that's okay.

The initial setup was okay. Someone who is a newbie might find the initial setup to be complex, but most of the time, it is okay.

Deployment-wise, our customers do not face any difficulties since I don't come across any questions from the customers regarding any difficulties they faced during the setup process.

My customers take care of vCenter Orchestrator's implementation by themselves.

My company does not deal with the product's pricing part since it is the customer's responsibility.

The product is intuitive enough. It might be a learning curve for someone new to vCenter Orchestrator.

I don't have much to share with those planning to use vCenter Orchestrator from a recommendation perspective because we are not into that kind of role where we recommend. Most of our customers already have the product, or they are in the middle of a big phase of the tool's implementation, because of which they come into our company for training.

I find the tool to be quite okay. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I use the solution for automation purposes.

The solution has the best workflow creation feature.

The solution's analytics feature could be better.

I have been using the solution for four years.

I rate the solution's stability a seven out of ten.

The solution's scalability is a seven or eight out of ten.

The solution's technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues.

Neutral

The solution's initial setup process is a seven or eight out of ten.

I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it a seven out of ten.

We use the solution to run a development environment. We use Kubernetes as well in our environment.

The virtualization is very good. 

It's the most popular platform for on-premises and is very popular in Cambodia. It's a popular product for the telecom and banking sectors.

It is easy to deploy.

The solution has a very good GUI.

Technical support is helpful. 

I've worked with the solution for only one year and am still working on learning the solution. I haven't experienced the solution fully and need to explore more virtualization. 

Our senior management has plans to migrate, and I'm in the middle of deployment with a VMware platform with plans to move to OpenStack.

I cannot speak to any missing features.

I would like to see more automation added in the future. This could help resolve management and provisioning tasks. 

I've been using the solution for more than a year.

We only have two people from our team using the solution. They are systems and server administrators, and they can handle all systems and servers in our current working environment. 

I've contacted VMware support related to vSAN issues. Typically, I'd email them to get assistance with issues. We've had errors we could not fix and would ask for support. They are pretty helpful and responsive. 

Positive

I'm also familiar with OpenStack.

The initial setup is very easy. It is not overly complex. It's easy for a VMware cluster setup. It is easy as compared to, for example, OpenStack or other virtual platforms. It is very convenient and more popular compared to other options. 

We are customers and end-users.

I'd recommend the solution to others. 

I would rate the solution seven out of ten.

We use it to manage the overall VMware environment.

We use the Distributed Resource Scheduling, the HA, the affinity features, and the fault tolerance that is available.

I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful.

I have been using vCenter Orchestrator for the past ten years.

It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus.

Scalability, I think you can add hundreds and thousands of machines to it. Even though there are some hard limits, they are huge in numbers. I can go and add four thousand plus steps, and in every case, I can have up to sixteen machines running. We are talking about thousands of hardware and thousands of VMs can be added to a single center.  It depends upon the requirement. We will increase it and decrease it based on company growth.

Technical support is very good.

Positive

It is pretty straightforward. They have a deployable product. We do not have to design and build it before deploying. It is readily available from their side. You just have to download and provide the IPS. There are very few configurations to decide on and you are up and ready in a few minutes to an hour. They have made it very simple now.

The licensing cost is manageable because they have different versions available, standard, essential, and advanced. It depends upon the business requirement. You can pick and choose what you need. I think they do have a free version as well. 

I would rate vCenter Orchestrator a nine out of ten.

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.

The solution manages workloads and templates very well.

The solution could be integrated with third-party hypervisors.

I have used the solution for many years.

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.

It is a highly scalable solution. I rate its scalability a ten.

The solution's technical support is good.

Positive

The solution's initial setup process is easy. It takes an hour or two to complete.

We implemented the solution in-house.

We renew the solution's license every one or two years.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten.