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AutoSys Workload Automation vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

AutoSys Workload Automation
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
79
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (7th)
VMware Cloud Director
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

AutoSys Workload Automation and VMware Cloud Director aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. AutoSys Workload Automation is designed for Workload Automation and holds a mindshare of 16.8%, down 18.9% compared to last year.
VMware Cloud Director, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 7.7% mindshare, up 5.2% since last year.
Workload Automation
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

MB
Oct 11, 2023
A highly stable solution that can be used for batch processing and other automation-related things
I work as an engineer in an enterprise company. We have used AutoSys Workload Automation for a long time for batch processing and other automation things AutoSys Workload Automation has saved us a lot of time for batch processing and bad jobs. Earlier, if someone had an issue with the…
Tim  Abboud - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 2, 2024
Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"We get better reports than we use to have."
"We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide."
"I prefer AutoSys over the other ones out there for ease of use, ease of understanding, and getting people to understand how the tool works."
"It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run."
"​It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers.​"
"Without this product we would have to manually submit jobs and it would take longer. There would also be a much greater possibility of jobs running wrong and/or not at the right time."
"​It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"The tool is very stable."
"The overall dashboarding is very crystal clear."
 

Cons

"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"It would be helpful to be able to monitor and manage workload windows so we could minimize downstream applications. This would allow us easier access to the applications."
"​CA installation processes are never anything but complex.​"
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"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."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We paid to use the solution monthly."
"I certainly think the pricing is worth the value."
"The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive."
"I don't have information on the exact licensing cost of AutoSys Workload Automation because that's managed by the tools and financing teams. For agents, it's close to $4,00, but for the server setup, it's usually a one-time license initially, and it's AMC which is paid every year and comes close to $8,000 to $10,000."
"It is overpriced."
"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."
"CA pricing has been a problem, and not looked upon favorably here at all."
"People need to pay attention to how they use their ESP agents on the distributed platform. That's where some of the cost comes in, based on how many you need or how many you use."
"It is better than other solutions out there when it comes to cost."
"vCloud Director is an expensive solution."
"The licensing costs are pretty high, but it might depend on the size of the company."
"It enables us to provision new clients more quickly."
"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."
"The solution is expensive so pricing is rated a four out of ten."
"We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers."
"The license could be less expensive and we are on a perpetual license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
47%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
Insurance Company
5%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?
Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful because nothing gets left unattended since it is all visible in one place, and th...
What do you like most about AutoSys Workload Automation?
The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users.
Would you change anything about VMware vCloud Director if you could?
VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In...
What is the biggest improvement you saw at your company after you started using VMware vCloud Director?
For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched...
Is vCloud Director convenient for building applications?
When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example: Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services w...
 

Also Known As

CA Workload Automation, CA Workload Automation AE
vCloud Director
 

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Sample Customers

Gaumont, Mercantil do Brasil, CCEE, Hanwha Life
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
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