vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

vCenter Orchestrator is a user-friendly and straightforward product.

The product’s cost needs improvement. Not all organizations can spend huge amounts of money to orchestrate the operation. In comparison, KVM is less expensive and has similar functionality. It could be integrated with other products and technologies than VMware.

The product is stable.

It is a scalable product.

The technical support services are excellent.

Positive

I use Ansible to automate workload management for third-party products and heterogeneous environments. In comparison, vCenter Orchestrator can be used to manage only VMware infrastructure.

The initial setup process is easy if you follow the proper procedure with the correct steps and prerequisites.

I rate vCenter Orchestrator an eight out of ten. If you have only VMware cloud, then vCenter Orchestrator is the right fit for your business requirements. You should look for other compatible tools if you have a heterogeneous environment, including public clouds like OpenStack or OpenShift.

I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions. 

There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone. 

The solution is very stable. I would rate its stability a ten out of ten. 

We did not face any support cases. 

The tool's deployment can be done in-house. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

We use vCenter Orchestrator for all our automation. We use vCenter Orchestrator workflows to automate our infrastructure entirely.

What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier because it's for automation. My organization has a portal where people can request to automate all tasks or processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs.

I liked the previous client better than the current web client of vCenter Orchestrator, though my colleagues like the client now. Getting used to the current web client was difficult because it was different from the old client, though this is my personal opinion.

The technical support for vCenter Orchestrator needs improvement.

I've worked with vCenter Orchestrator for many years, probably ten years in my team. I'm still working on it.

Stability-wise, I don't have issues with vCenter Orchestrator, so it's a nine out of ten.

vCenter Orchestrator is scalable enough for my current environment, but it's not just a single product because my company has multiple vCenter Orchestrator running.

I'm not happy with VMware support, so I'd rate it as five out of ten. My team even had mission-critical support, yet the support quality could be better, and the support team could have been more responsive. Right now, my team is in the middle of an issue that's been going on for quite a while, but my team still can't find the real cause, and the vCenter Orchestrator technical support team can't find the cause either.

Neutral

The initial setup for vCenter Orchestrator was easy.

We deployed vCenter Orchestrator. We are integrators operating a private cloud for multiple customers.

My organization didn't have to pay extra for vCenter Orchestrator. It was already included, so it's basically free. Even VMware regular support is included.

I'm working with VMware products, such as vSphere, vCenter Orchestrator, and vRealize Operations Manager.

My colleagues develop workflows. I'm not into vCenter Orchestrator development.

My company is a cloud provider.

I don't know how many people use vCenter Orchestrator within the organization. Still, it has a few thousand employees, with ten people in the development team I'm part of, so I'd say approximately a thousand employees could be using the product.

I would recommend vCenter Orchestrator, but the learning curve is rather high. It's not an easy tool to use for development, so you have to get to know it first. One area for improvement in vCenter Orchestrator is that it lacks good courses, tutorials, or training centers. What you'll find is very basic, and if you want more advanced training, you won't find one, so within my team, you have to learn it yourself, get experience, and find out how vCenter Orchestrator works.

My rating for the tool is eight out of ten because it needs more training resources and advanced courses, and VMware should provide training.