vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

We are a software IT provider. I work with vCenter. We use it for our clients. It's for customers and our customers who use VMware products. We are the implementation engineers. Most of our clients work with the traditional data counter.

Our primary use case of this solution is for virtualization management, so virtualizing the infrastructure, and optimizing IT workload.

The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one.

It's a single pane of glass. We can manage all the sectors on vCenter.

It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price. 

I don't know if vCenter Orchestrator can automize the provisioning of other products and other virtualizing software besides for VMware. If it will develop the ability to be a multi-provider product it will be better for VMware.

I would it to become multi-platforming, like what vRealize does. 

It is stable. I didn't find any technical problems with any VMware products, including vCenter. They are stable products and the only problem is that they cost a lot of money. 

In Tunisia, we don't have very big data country like in the UK, Europe, and other countries. The biggest data center in my country has maybe around 500 virtual machines. We don't have the problem of scalability in Tunisia. We're a small country with a small data center. For big companies in Tunisia, it's compared to a middle-sized company in Europe.

We don't have this problem and I know vCenter it's very scalable with how much you can manage and how many customers you can manage. We don't have this problem with scalability.

We don't have a problem with VMware support. I would rate their support a nine out of ten. 

We compared vCenter to Microsoft SCCM and other tools and I think vCenter is the most dynamic and the easier one to use in any complex environment.

The initial setup is not complicated. The setup took around half a day. If we have all the requirement that we request it takes less than half a day.

We do both. We implement and we do the support and maintenance tasks. We only require one staff member for the deployment. 

The setup depends on how the company has organized it. We have people who are responsible for the implementation and people who are responsible for the maintenance and support desk. But if you have a problem then just one person can fix that problem. 

Our licensing is on a yearly basis. We pay for the license and then we pay the support every year.

I would rate it a nine out of ten. Not a ten because of the price. 

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.

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. 

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.

vCenter Orchestrator is a user-friendly and straightforward product.

The product’s cost needs improvement. Not all organizations can spend huge amounts of money to orchestrate the operation. In comparison, KVM is less expensive and has similar functionality. It could be integrated with other products and technologies than VMware.

The product is stable.

It is a scalable product.

The technical support services are excellent.

Positive

I use Ansible to automate workload management for third-party products and heterogeneous environments. In comparison, vCenter Orchestrator can be used to manage only VMware infrastructure.

The initial setup process is easy if you follow the proper procedure with the correct steps and prerequisites.

I rate vCenter Orchestrator an eight out of ten. If you have only VMware cloud, then vCenter Orchestrator is the right fit for your business requirements. You should look for other compatible tools if you have a heterogeneous environment, including public clouds like OpenStack or OpenShift.

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 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.