vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

I use the solution in my company for data center visualization.

The most valuable feature of the solution is DRS. The tool is very beneficial for automating workflow.

The only problem with the product is that it is very expensive, making it an area where improvements are required.

There are some hardware limitations associated with the product, especially when heterogeneous systems are involved, as we face some difficulties. Linux and IBM machines are very difficult to convert into VM machines. Windows can be easily converted from physical to virtual machines, but we have some problems with Linux machines.

I have been using vCenter Orchestrator for almost ten years. I am a customer of the solution.

I have not been using VMware for the last six months. I have shifted to Citrix. We have some other projects for which we need some VDI solutions, and we found that Citrix is very cost-effective, while VMware is very expensive now. We have had a very good experience with VMware for ten years, but now we have shifted to Citrix.

I cannot share some details of Citrix due to some of our company's policies. My company has been using Citrix only for two months, so I would be unable to say whether it has any advantage over vCenter Orchestrator. After my company shifted from VMware to Citrix, we have been testing and comparing the features of both tools. After six months, we can say which product is better and what features we have in Citrix that are not present in a VMware comparison.

The interface of the tool is very useful and user-friendly. We have had a very good experience with the product's initial setup phase in our company.

The integration capabilities of vCenter Orchestrator are very feasible for my heterogeneous network. It is easy to connect with different devices, like some physical systems. With the tool, we can easily and comfortably move our physical infrastructure into our virtual infrastructure.

VMware helped our company achieve its automation goals using AI technology in a very efficient manner.

If it were not for the issues with the price, I recommend vCenter Orchestrator to others.

I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

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 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.

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.

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.

I primarily use vCenter Orchestrator to automate workflows.

vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library.

vCenter Orchestrator's debugging capacity could be improved. In the next release, vCenter Orchestrator should include self-healing capabilities and clustering.

I've been using vCenter Orchestrator for four to five years.

I would rate vCenter Orchestrator's stability eight out of ten.

vCenter Orchestrator's scalability is good - I would rate it eight out of ten.

vCenter Orchestrator's technical support is very helpful and responsive

The initial setup was quite easy and took a couple of minutes.

vCenter Orchestrator could be more affordable. However, there are no additional costs. I would rate its pricing as six out of ten.

I would recommend vCenter Orchestrator to other users and rate it eight out of ten.