vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

The version we use is not updated. 

The solution allows us to manage multiple VMware in a single, vCenter, console. It is very useful.

The solution is easy to use.

I would like to see better performance. 

We have been using vCenter Orchestrator for around six years.

The solution is stable.

I do not have knowledge of the technical support. 

The solution was easy to install. 

The implementation process takes between 30 to 43 minutes. 

When it comes to the deployment, they have an administrator. We will provide them with support should an issue arise. 

We provide the VMware solution to our clients, for which they pay a perpetual license. 

We have around 10 customers making use of the solution.

My recommendation is that one solely go with vCenter.

I rate vCenter Orchestrator as a ten out of ten. 

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it offers a single dashboard, so you don't have to go to multiple places to do multiple things.

The snapshot technology of VMware is not good compared to other solutions in the market, like Nutanix. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.

I have been using vCenter Orchestrator for a year or two. I recommend vCenter Orchestrator to my company's customers. I am unsure of the version I use.

Performance-wise, vCenter Orchestrator is a very good solution since it remains very stable.

In my company, we have one data center with two or three data servers that manage the solution. One administrator is required to look after the solution.

In my company, we haven't used the technical support provided by VMware. I believe our clients will need help from VMware's technical support.

I use products similar to vCenter Orchestrator from Nutanix.

With VMware, you need to purchase each of their solutions separately. When it comes to Nutanix, everything comes under a single bundle, making it a very good solution requiring very little licensing, even though the price may fall in the upper end of the spectrum. The aforementioned details of Nutanix make it easy for my company to propose it to our customers.

The problem with vCenter Orchestrator is that our company has to pay more since we have to buy it as a separate product from VMware. Our customers wonder why our company proposes to them to buy too many solutions when there are alternatives in the market, allowing them to buy or choose a single solution with everything they need. Though we end up proposing vCenter Orchestrator to our customers, they ultimately end up buying three or four products along with it, and it becomes difficult for our company to give an explanation.

The implementation phase for vCenter Orchestrator was easy.

The solution is deployed on-premises mostly since our customers use it in banks.

A trial version of the solution would be good since it can showcase those features that can be utilized and how everything can be made available on a single dashboard. Once a customer gets a hands-on experience with the solution, they will start feeling comfortable and may start liking the product.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for service enablement applications. Those are the applications running there.

The solution offers one central view. The VMotion is good. It's easy to put it into service and maintenance mode if needed. I'm an architect, however, my team is more hands-on day-to-day, and they know about the solution in detail.

The initial setup has been pretty straightforward, and the team, in general, has been happy with the process.

The solution is pretty stable and reliable. 

Technical support is very good at taking a deep dive into issues. 

On the KVM side, we really don't have anything. There we have a gap. It's a very small deployment on the KVM side, however, it would be ideal if we were able to properly use all the resources and get the full performance of the platform. 

On the orchestration side, we're lacking the KVM part as well.

There can be compatibility issues. We need to keep track of different versions of the software. For example, we're still on E6 I6 6.5. In some cases, we can't upgrade to Red Hat 8 yet, for compatibility reasons. Every time we do, we have to be applying HPE firmware and stuff. Sometimes we run into complications and we have to stage everything in the lab just to make sure all the versions are compatible. There's this forward and backward compatibility of different software you need to constantly be aware of. 

I've been dealing with the solution maybe for five years at this point. I've used it for a while now.

The solution is mostly stable, so long as there aren't compatibility issues between different pieces of software. Mostly, it's reliable. 

Typically, I don't deal with technical support issues. I'm not in that area. That said, it's my understanding that we have gotten a pretty good, deep analysis of the issues at hand when we have had tickets open in the past. My team seems satisfied with the level of support given to them.

The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's very simple and straightforward. 

Our team can handle it with ease. We don't need the assistance of integrators or consultants. 

Our customers are the ones that hold the licensing. We just provide services. Therefore, I cannot speak to any exact costs or licensing agreements. 

We provide services to customers. However, we are users of the product.

I don't know of any better VM environment. I would rate this solution at a nine out of ten. We've been very happy with its capabilities so far. 

We recently deployed a SAN in our office and the servers deploy on vCenter Orchestrator.

We also have a wireless deployment for different controllers, and we have many ERD solutions in our office that are hosted on VMware technology.

Many of our older, physical servers are being converted into VMs, and then we use vCenter Orchestrator with them as well.

The most valuable feature is the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).

The backup and recovery times are very quick.

The management tools are very good.

I think that vSAN can be improved.

The GUI should be enhanced in the future. 

I have been working with vCenter Orchestrator for probably three years.

vCenter Orchestrator is a stable product.

Scalability has not been an issue. In one project, we have between 2,500 and 3,000 users.

The VMware technical support is good.

The initial setup is straightforward. Including the training that we had from the training center, our deployment took place over about six months.

We evaluated and analyzed several similar products and we selected VMware as being most suitable for our requirements.

My advice for anybody who is considering vCenter Orchestrator is to first collect all of their requirements or the requirements of the client. These are the basic steps and once everything is understood, the products can be properly selected.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Primary use would be consolidation into a smaller footprint and its performance is pretty good.

It allows us to maintain an offline catalog of a bunch of product configurations that can be powered on remotely, so they don't use any resources while they are off.

The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN.

I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution.

Stability is an eight out of 10.

Scalability is an eight out of 10.

There was no previous solution. It was all bare metal hardware.

When selecting a vendor the most important criteria are time in the industry and cost.

The initial setup was very simple.

I looked at Zen, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and the free Linux solution. My decision was made by the fact that our product support team only specifically supports virtualization on VMware.

I rate this solution a nine out of 10 because of its simplicity, scalability, and availability. The one ding would be the need for better manageability of VM sprawl, that would be nice.

In terms of advice, I would tell people that this is VMware's only business, or primary business. That's longevity in your investment, as opposed to going with a Microsoft or a Linux that may or may not continue the solution.

We are using the solution for multiple companies. 

There are a lot of features in VMware that are very useful, actually. 

The initial setup is not very complex. 

It is stable and reliable. 

We can scale the solution. 

In the last few months, I've heard rumors that ransomware has been gaining the ability to attack VMware, which has us worried. 

The cost of the solution is high.

I've been using the solution for five or six years. 

The solution has been quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

We've had customers with up to 7,000 employees. 

The solution scales well. It's not a problem to expand it. 

I'm just doing implementations for my customers, not my company. I'm not sure if my customers have plans to increase usage. 

I've only used technical support two or three times. They have very good support and we are quite satisfied with the level of support we offer. 

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward and simple. It's not difficult. How long it takes to deploy depends on the number of hosts on vCenter. It might take one to two hours. 

Sometimes a customer requires a more complex setup, and that can take a few days.

We are able to handle the initial setup in-house. We did not need any outside help from integrators or consultants. 

There are multiple licenses available so customers can choose what makes sense based on their needs. 

The pricing could be a bit less between the pandemic and the war. It's also expensive as it is in dollars, which is higher than a lot of other currencies. Lowering the price would encourage more customers to sign on.

I am an integrator.

I'm using multiple versions, including versions five, six, and seven.

It's a perfect solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten. I'm worried about the potential for being targeted by this new ransomware.

We primarily use this solution for automation.

We have an on-premises deployment, and we do not plan on using the cloud.

vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use.

The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use.

This is a stable platform.

This solution is scalable.

We have ten users, including system administrators and end-users.

Their technical support engineers were quite capable of dealing with any issues that we have had. Luckily, since the platform is stable enough, we haven’t had to open many cases. There was only one that we had in the initial phase.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward.

I definitely recommend this solution. As a whole, it is quite good. It is difficult to pick a single aspect that I would recommend. You have to use the whole thing.

From what I have been told, the newer versions have already addressed some of the issues that we have identified. We are planning on upgrading to the most recent version, and I am waiting to see what the differences are.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution to try to make use of it on a couple of workflows, as well as deployment, and packages. 

The solution helps us to manage our resources more efficiently.

In regards to the workflows, the fact that we can actually have a full dashboard library of all the existing workflows on this is great. We can see all the workflows and what all the actions do and can work with scripts.

We haven't gotten to that level of usage yet as to be able to see the downsides. The solution has been able to handle our basic requirements at this point. Maybe in a year, when the team has used the solution extensively, we would be able to actually see the drawbacks, especially those of us who are trying to compare it with other solutions as well.

As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well. 

It would be great if the solution could further integrate with other services. it would be really good to have all of the solutions in one particular dashboard or one particular installed package. Right now, you can do that from other products, but we have to orchestrate it or have it as a subset. It would be great to actually have all the features bond together, especially for SMBs. It would be really cost-effective in the end.

The solution is pretty scalable. With the new cloud platform, it's easy and at a fairly low cost. We do plan to increase usage in the future.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

For our organization, the initial setup was straightforward. We don't have a super complex multi-tenant environment, which may make it more complex for others.

Deployment took about a week but it wasn't a fast deployment. We handled it on and off as we handled other projects, so it happened over the course of two weeks to a month.

We had VMware assist with the implementation.

We're a partner, so we have a PLU licensing model; we have a partnership agreement.

We're using the on-premise deployment model.

It's a great solution and it's great to work with as well. Anything coming from VMware is pretty much top-notch, but, of course, you still have to look at the licensing requirements before you sign on to the solution. It should be a case of functionality versus budget in terms of if it will work for your organization.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.