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.
Head of Datacenter Systems and Infrastructures at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
Nov 11, 2024
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.
If ten is very expensive, I rate the tool's price as a four out of ten. The tool's new pricing is really bad, considering the way the product's cost has changed, resulting in an increase in the cost by five to ten times from what it was previously.
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.
Technical Team Leader - Microsoft at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
Mar 1, 2024
vCloud Director is a very expensive solution. Before January, you had to pay for what you use. A single CPU call costs 200 euros, and we currently need to license 3,500 CPU calls, which is a lot of money.
vCloud Director is an expensive solution. Our organization selects the top tier of the product options, which ensures that we get every feature we want.
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
MSP
Oct 11, 2021
In certain cases, the price of Cloud Director is quite high, especially with the load balancing and other features they've introduced. That seems quite costly. Overall, for VSPP programming, I think it's okay. However, features like enterprise load balancing and all these other things are very costly.
Divisional Engineer at National Telecom Corporatio
Real User
May 21, 2021
It's a costly product. The licenses may not be costly, but with every new development in their product, we need to purchase deployment services, and the deployment services are quite costly.
Compared to alternatives like Microsoft SPLA, this solution is on the expensive side. It's an expensive solution but it comes with its benefits for being pricey.
OSS Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 18, 2018
In terms of costs, I would say there is no comparison between this solution and alternatives. If you are in the market for VMware services, that's just what it is. You don't have any other product like this on the market.
Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Nov 18, 2018
I would advise someone looking into this or a similar solution to get people who understand the technology and what you can do with it to get the program right the first time. You can make a lot of mistakes during the deployment. Get someone in there to help you if you don't understand the product 100 percent. I rated this solution an eight. I believe that everything has room for improvement and wouldn't give any solution a ten.
VMware Cloud Director, also known as vCloud Director, is a cloud management tool that offers secure, flexible, and efficient cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. The solution serves as one of the leading cloud service-delivery platforms for businesses that want to manage and operate their services effectively. By deploying this solution, companies can benefit from virtualized networking, computing, security, and storage. These benefits can be received in...
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.
The pricing for VMware Cloud Director is more or less reasonable, especially when compared to Cisco, which is significantly more expensive.
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.
If ten is very expensive, I rate the tool's price as a four out of ten. The tool's new pricing is really bad, considering the way the product's cost has changed, resulting in an increase in the cost by five to ten times from what it was previously.
If one means a very bad price, and ten means a very good price, I rate the price as a five on a scale of one to ten.
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.
I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
vCloud Director is a very expensive solution. Before January, you had to pay for what you use. A single CPU call costs 200 euros, and we currently need to license 3,500 CPU calls, which is a lot of money.
I believe the pricing is reasonable.
My company has no problems with the pricing of the product as we got good discounts from VMware.
We are paying around $ 15,000 per month for vCloud Director, and it would be nice if it could be made cheaper.
The solution's price is the market standard and depends on usage.
The price of the solution is expensive.
The licensing cost is high for vCloud Director. It is mostly a perpetual license.
The licensing costs are pretty high, but it might depend on the size of the company.
vCloud Director is priced higher than other solutions, such as Nutanix.
vCloud Director is an expensive solution. Our organization selects the top tier of the product options, which ensures that we get every feature we want.
We pay monthly for all of the licenses.
In certain cases, the price of Cloud Director is quite high, especially with the load balancing and other features they've introduced. That seems quite costly. Overall, for VSPP programming, I think it's okay. However, features like enterprise load balancing and all these other things are very costly.
The license could be less expensive and we are on a perpetual license.
It's a costly product. The licenses may not be costly, but with every new development in their product, we need to purchase deployment services, and the deployment services are quite costly.
As a service provider, it gives us quite good leverage and flexibility to present our own pricing and create pricing policies, which is really good.
This is an expensive solution.
I can not tell you exactly how much it costs, but I know our bill is in the millions (rand) every month.
I can't remember what our setup costs were. I know we paid in VSPP points. Our contract covers other environments so it's not something I monitor.
It is better than other solutions out there when it comes to cost.
Compared to alternatives like Microsoft SPLA, this solution is on the expensive side. It's an expensive solution but it comes with its benefits for being pricey.
vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool.
vCloud Director isn't cheap.
In terms of costs, I would say there is no comparison between this solution and alternatives. If you are in the market for VMware services, that's just what it is. You don't have any other product like this on the market.
This solution is cheaper than other alternatives.
I would advise someone looking into this or a similar solution to get people who understand the technology and what you can do with it to get the program right the first time. You can make a lot of mistakes during the deployment. Get someone in there to help you if you don't understand the product 100 percent. I rated this solution an eight. I believe that everything has room for improvement and wouldn't give any solution a ten.