VMware Cloud Director Reviews

vCloud Director gives you the overall capability to manage your infrastructure running on the VMware private cloud, whether it is your compute, network, or storage. The solution gives you the ability not only to manage and monitor but also to optimize the infrastructure running in the environment.

It also has the capability to help support and provide the basic assessment for the identified infrastructure servers, which can be potential candidates for migration to public cloud services.

The overall dashboarding is very crystal clear. The ability to switch from one infrastructure to another infrastructure and get into detailed information, whether it is compute, storage network, or whatever. That helps you get a holistic view of the overall infrastructure running in your landscape. This also helps the leadership and management be aware of the right potential investment strategy by looking at the potential utilization.

vCloud Director also provides ways and means through which you can make a prediction or a forecast of the infrastructure that would be needed in the future, depending on what you are currently running. That does not take away the fact that we have to be completely aware of our pipeline projects in our schedule so that you can plan your infrastructure requirements accordingly. vCloud Director provides multifold features that have been beneficial to the end users.

The solution's pricing is high, and VMware should consider lowering it.

I have been using vCloud Director for 12 years.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine or nine and a half out of ten.

I have worked and provided solutions to my end-user customers, who are predominantly medium to large enterprises. I have seen it successfully running in their environment, and I do not see any potential blocker or bottleneck so far. I hope it's all going well for the customers and that there are no potential challenges in their environments.

I rate the solution’s scalability ten out of ten.

Technical support has been good from VMware. There were times when we had a wait time because of the long queues and less availability of support staff. However, waiting for some time is fine if you find a solution to your issues.

The solution's initial setup is very user-friendly, but understanding its overall functioning requires some expertise in working with VMware Dynamics.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a nine out of ten.

The solution's deployment takes a few minutes, but it depends on the scale and magnitude of the deployment. Setting up one or two instances of vCloud Director at one particular geographical location may be done in minutes. However, setting up the vCloud Director interface for multiple locations simultaneously, testing it, and getting it ready for the end user would take several minutes to a few hours.

The return on investment with vCloud Director has been good for the customers. After Broadcom took over VMware, there have been certain challenges regarding VMware support on AWS. I learned from the Broadcom newsletters that VMware support will continue to grow for VMware customers, which I think is fair.

The solution's pricing is high, and VMware should consider lowering it. When we go to the end customer with VMware's pricing, I've seen customers roll their eyes looking at the pricing sheet. We have competition from product vendors like UnitedLayer, which is very competitive regarding on-premises private cloud solutions. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing eight and a half to nine out of ten.

Overall, I rate vCloud Director a nine out of ten.

We use the solution to manage and onboard permission and access on the laptop.

We have limitations on the capabilities of its sender. We send our prospect to speak with the administration through the administrator on their phone. It's very easy for the user but quite tricky for the administration.

They can do any provisioning for the virtual machines. For instance, they will only see those resources if we allocate 10 Ghz database storage. The limitation is due to our setup: we need to ensure customer isolation, as vCloud Director supports multi-tenancy.

We can access vCloud Director from the Internet. Once we access it, somebody else can do the same.

The data probability is advanced for the monitoring surface and the application. We need to improve the physical data for monitoring and understanding scalability with automation for autoscaling.

I have been using vCloud Director since 2015. We are using the V10 of the solution.

We need to verify compatibility, which is crucial to ensuring stability.

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

Two hundred users are using the solution. We plan to increase the use of the vCloud director in the future.

I rate the solution’s scalability a six out of ten.

Sometimes, we encounter challenges with support. When we open a support case, it is handled by representatives from various locations, such as the US or England. The initial response might come from India or elsewhere. Occasionally, we have to reiterate our issue from scratch, which can be frustrating. Ideally, we should get support personnel with historical data to avoid repeating explanations every time we reach out for assistance.

Neutral

The initial setup is very difficult and takes two weeks to complete. Separate coding is very difficult. Ten people are required for the solution's deployment.

We have to prepare, it may only take one or two days. However, we must ensure thorough preparation from the bottom up, starting with the server and setting up a vSphere server. Additionally, we need to prepare some data for vCenter. We can proceed with the installation of the vCloud Director.

I rate the initial setup as three out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The licensing model is fair. The company management is happy because we pay for the services, and they become available. However, it's too expensive. We are considering changing our solution.

I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

When scanning thoroughly, we integrate automation. It would be easier if VMware improved its capabilities. Then, we can implement autoscaling through the web interface.

There is multi-channel support, yet Net Depot is used for security and monitoring. This is crucial if we expose profiles to the Internet for security reasons. We need to enhance security, especially in protecting vCloud Director. If anyone pushes or plugs in something, it could compromise customer access. VMware may be better prepared for security reasons.

Two persons are required to maintain the solution.

If we only have a small amount of resources, we'll opt for the public vCloud but if we have a large amount of resources like 100s, 1000s then vCloud Director might be a better solution.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Typically, when a user or customer wants to have a tenant to provide services to other customers.

It fits well in larger groups but not necessarily in the managed service provider model.

It optimizes the process for cloud structure, but it varies greatly from customer to customer.

With the first implementation, we had networking issues with vCloud Director in multi-tenant cloud environments. But with more experience and our dedicated vCloud Director, it works fine now.

We use it with NSX. Initially, I was concerned about future issues with NSX and vCloud Director. Thankfully, experts improved it, and it's getting better. However, networking is very sensitive in large vCloud Director deployments.

My opinion is that our specific installation or storage configuration might have made it difficult to achieve optimal product placement.

I like the networking and the flexibility of handling workloads within vCloud Director for virtual data center management.

All products have issues. Perhaps the update process. We sometimes face problems, but I don't know if it's our plan or the product itself.

I have been using it for a year. 

Initially, I would rate the stability a three out of ten because we faced some complex stability issues initially. I had a lot of issues at first, making me think the product wasn't as stable as advertised.

Now, it is more stable. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. 

I would recommend it to medium-sized businesses and enterprises.

I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support.

There is room for improvement in the response time. 

Neutral

You need to know what you're doing, like with all products. If you have everything checked and ready, an hour or an hour and a half for implementation is reasonable. It depends on preparation, like other products.

We're an IT services house. We implement vCloud Director and vRealize Aria for ourselves and our clients.

I implement and work with it, but I'm not the architect.

I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being low price. 

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

I own a hosting company and use vCloud Director for my customers.

The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud.

vCloud Director should include better billing options for businesses like mine or more options for customers to see their usage and billing situation regarding the usage of vCloud Director. vCloud Director's graphical user interface should be made easier.

I have been using vCloud Director for around 12 years.

I rate vCloud Director ten out of ten for stability.

vCloud Director has good scalability. I rate vCloud Director a nine out of ten for scalability.

Compared to its competitors, the initial setup of vCloud Director is more difficult than it should be.

We have seen a return on investment with vCloud Director.

We are paying around $ 15,000 per month for vCloud Director, and it would be nice if it could be made cheaper.

Users need to be educated to use vCloud Director.

Overall, I rate vCloud Director an eight out of ten.

We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds. 

It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool. 

I have been working with the product for ten years. 

The solution is stable. 

The product is scalable. 

The solution's support depends on the partnership. We do not attend to level 1 and level 2 support cases but level 3 support cases. 

Positive

The solution's price is the market standard and depends on usage. 

I would rate the product a nine out of ten. The tool is simple and easy to use. The solution provides API and GUI interfaces. 

Our company uses the solution to create private clouds for customers. The workload editor is applicable for large infrastructures or providers of cloud services. 

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.  

The blueprint that allows customers to create their own images for deployment services needs some improvement. 

The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated. Currently, the solution only offers this option for their own VMware. Other products like Red Hat allow you to automate anything. 

I have been using the solution for six years. 

The solution is very stable with no issues. 

The scalability is rated a nine out of ten. 

The support staff used to be very inexperienced but now they are good and the process is simple. 

The initial setup was very complex but now it is very simple.

We implement the solution for customers. 

The solution is expensive so pricing is rated a four out of ten. 

I recommend the solution and rate it an eight out of ten. 

Our company uses the solution as a cloud service provider for our virtual data center that serves 100 customers. 

We create demands and assign them to customers who run the workloads, access virtual machines, and perform network operations. 

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. 

The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack. 

I have been using the solution for six months. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Technical support is good and I rate them a ten out of ten. 

Positive

Our company previously used OpenStack. 

The setup and deployment are rather complex because all networking and storage components need to be included. 

We partnered with the vendor for initial deployment. Our internal team of four included server, network, and VMware administrators. 

The solution provides us with the capability to offer managed services where we realize ROI. 

I recommend using the Enterprise or Enterprise Plus licenses because they unlock all of the solution's capabilities from the operational, networking, and log-in sides. A mid-high or high license will allow you to deliver all of the features available.

We evaluated the solution against OpenStack and decided to switch. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

We use VMware Cloud Director on our big service providers that allow different tenants to coexist from the same operational infrastructure. Each of our customers has their own tenant, so we can manage their workloads separately.

Offloading workloads to such large platforms allows for better economies of scale, facilitating management from a customer perspective that does not need to maintain their own infrastructure.

The reliability and flexibility of networking are valuable. You can do a lot with NSX, which is the VMware component that manages all networking. It integrates well with enterprise-level backup solutions, like Veeam or Vault.

VMware should simplify the whole solution as it comprises many different components, making management hard. Reducing the number of components would make it easier to manage.

Currently, it's more or less a year.

It is really reliable and works well.

As a technician, it's easier to work on VMware because there are many online sources for support, and it has more maturity on the market. At Nutanix, you need a lot of support from a partner, whereas the engagement with a partner for VMware is much less.

Positive

I'm considering that it might be worth looking into Nutanix since they are new in the market.

We work hand in hand with our customers to work on primarily Big Cloud Director platforms.

Since Broadcom's acquisition, the prices of VMware solutions have changed a lot. I'm mostly technical and don't deal much with budgeting and billing, so I can't really judge them.

I did evaluate other solutions like Nutanix.

Starting from scratch, it could be worth looking into Nutanix. The VMware acquisition by Broadcom has left some uncertainty, and Broadcom did a terrible PR job following the acquisition.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use it to deliver secure cloud environments to customers.

vCloud Director greatly improves our organization by seamlessly integrating with the entire VMware stack, simplifying operations, and making it easy to provide comprehensive cloud services.

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.

There is some room for improvement in vCloud Director, particularly with its integration with various VMware components for automation. It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns. Specifically, having native automation capabilities within vCloud Director would be a great enhancement.

I have been using vCloud Director for three years.

I would rate the stability of the solution as a nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of the solution as a nine out of ten.

I would rate the technical support as an eight out of ten.

Positive

I previously used Morpheus, but I switched to vCloud Director due to integration issues after upgrading. Specifically, Morpheus had challenges integrating with another solution we were using, prompting the switch.

The initial setup was quite simple.

I think vCloud Director is worth the price.

I would recommend vCloud Director as a solid solution for cloud providers. It offers comprehensive features and is easy to integrate with other VMware components, making it well-suited for diverse needs. Overall, I would rate it as a ten out of ten.

vCloud Director is used for our customers and my company for the cloud.

I have been using vCloud Director for approximately one year.

vCloud Director is a stable solution.

We have approximately three people using vCloud Director in my company.

The support provided by the vCloud Director is good.

The initial setup of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier. 

My advice to others is for them to check the requirements before implementation.

I rate vCloud Director a nine out of ten.