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AutoSys Workload Automation vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

AutoSys Workload Automation
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (7th)
VMware Cloud Director
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (5th)
 

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 12.8%, down 18.5% compared to last year.
VMware Cloud Director, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 6.8% mindshare, up 6.8% since last year.
Workload Automation
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Antony Askew - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time
The visibility and control features are somewhat limited. This is a recognized weakness, but thee vendor is currently revamping the user interface to address it. While the current UI is a bit outdated, it's undergoing improvement. AutoSys Workload Automation has some areas for improvement, particularly in housekeeping and product maintenance. These tasks are currently quite manual and labor-intensive for our team. Additionally, the reporting and forecasting functionalities could be more robust. One area for improvement with AutoSys Workload Automation is that it comprises several distinct tools configured to work together. This necessitates familiarity with multiple tools for effective solution management. Consequently, it can sometimes lack a sense of cohesiveness as a unified solution.
NiteshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides crystal clear dashboarding and allows you to manage and monitor your infrastructure
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"AutoSys significantly reduces manual effort."
"AutoSys Workload Automation is scalable."
"The customized views that each individual can create, and views that can be made free-form, makes this very popular with the programmers."
"This solution enables us to improve our daily processing times. We can do everything faster than before we used this solution."
"​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.​"
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
 

Cons

"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have.​"
"​A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that.​"
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"Ease of implementation for upgrades."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"The solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could 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."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"vCloud Director's pricing is high. Its integration with open-source technologies is limited."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive."
"There is an annual license to use AutoSys Workload Automation."
"We paid to use the solution monthly."
"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."
"The return on investment would be very high because doing things manually without this product would be extremely expensive."
"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."
"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."
"I certainly think the pricing is worth the value."
"We are paying around $ 15,000 per month for vCloud Director, and it would be nice if it could be made cheaper."
"The solution is expensive so pricing is rated a four out of ten."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The solution is costly, efficient, and robust versus alternative solutions."
"The solution's price is the market standard and depends on usage."
"We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers."
"The licensing costs are pretty high, but it might depend on the size of the company."
"It is better than other solutions out there when it comes to cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
48%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
6%
Insurance Company
5%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AutoSys Workload Automation?
The solution is costly. The pricing is based on the number of users, which for me, translates to approximately $120,000 to $130,000 for a license period of two to three years.
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
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