vCenter Orchestrator Reviews

We use vCenter Orchestrator for all our automation. We use vCenter Orchestrator workflows to automate our infrastructure entirely.

What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier because it's for automation. My organization has a portal where people can request to automate all tasks or processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs.

I liked the previous client better than the current web client of vCenter Orchestrator, though my colleagues like the client now. Getting used to the current web client was difficult because it was different from the old client, though this is my personal opinion.

The technical support for vCenter Orchestrator needs improvement.

I've worked with vCenter Orchestrator for many years, probably ten years in my team. I'm still working on it.

Stability-wise, I don't have issues with vCenter Orchestrator, so it's a nine out of ten.

vCenter Orchestrator is scalable enough for my current environment, but it's not just a single product because my company has multiple vCenter Orchestrator running.

I'm not happy with VMware support, so I'd rate it as five out of ten. My team even had mission-critical support, yet the support quality could be better, and the support team could have been more responsive. Right now, my team is in the middle of an issue that's been going on for quite a while, but my team still can't find the real cause, and the vCenter Orchestrator technical support team can't find the cause either.

Neutral

The initial setup for vCenter Orchestrator was easy.

We deployed vCenter Orchestrator. We are integrators operating a private cloud for multiple customers.

My organization didn't have to pay extra for vCenter Orchestrator. It was already included, so it's basically free. Even VMware regular support is included.

I'm working with VMware products, such as vSphere, vCenter Orchestrator, and vRealize Operations Manager.

My colleagues develop workflows. I'm not into vCenter Orchestrator development.

My company is a cloud provider.

I don't know how many people use vCenter Orchestrator within the organization. Still, it has a few thousand employees, with ten people in the development team I'm part of, so I'd say approximately a thousand employees could be using the product.

I would recommend vCenter Orchestrator, but the learning curve is rather high. It's not an easy tool to use for development, so you have to get to know it first. One area for improvement in vCenter Orchestrator is that it lacks good courses, tutorials, or training centers. What you'll find is very basic, and if you want more advanced training, you won't find one, so within my team, you have to learn it yourself, get experience, and find out how vCenter Orchestrator works.

My rating for the tool is eight out of ten because it needs more training resources and advanced courses, and VMware should provide training.

I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions. 

There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone. 

The solution is very stable. I would rate its stability a ten out of ten. 

We did not face any support cases. 

The tool's deployment can be done in-house. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

I am using this solution as a test for a future project.

vCenter Orchestrator is not in production yet.

The most valuable feature is affinity rules.

Using this solution requires a lot of experience.

I have been using this solution for one month.

We use this solution for creating workflows, and we have a public-cloud deployment.

We are a cloud service provider. We have the ability to do custom workflows for our customers, but none of our customers are using workflows right now.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the workflow creation.

The user interface is ok.

The custom workflows are very difficult and confusing.

The IDE for developing is not user-friendly and does not have IntelliSense for checking your code. I find this to be very challenging.

It would be nice if the IDE accommodated all of the languages because right now, it only has JavaScript. More options for scripting are needed, such as C# and Acorn.

I would like to see the creation of video tutorials to help learn how to use particular functions of the product.

I don't think that this product is very stable because, at the moment, I am not able to run workflows. It crashes. Workflows that I have run before, I'm not able to run them again. It just crashes for no reason.

This solution may be scalable but right now, I haven't had any cause to explore scalability. In my environment, we do not have customers for this solution. It is used in-house.

We're working on internal workflow, but at the moment, it is not being used extensively. 

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The initial setup was not straightforward. I had to do a lot of research, and a lot of reading. There was no material available online.

I performed the implementation myself, but as I said, it was not straightforward. I had to search and experienced a lot of challenges, but at the end of the day, I was able to figure it out.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.

This is a product that I'm still exploring.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

At this moment I can't find another solution that is better than vCenter Orchestrator.

Haveri might be better in Malware.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the free movement of data between machines. It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines.

The licensing is expensive and should be improved.

The solution is stable.

We use it to prime the machines, and it's very good.

Apart from the times, we are doing the virtual relocations and it is scalable.

The initial setup is easy.

It can take half a day to set up two to four servers.

This solution is expensive and the licensing is more attractive for Haveri.

Even though it is expensive I would still rate this solution a ten out of ten.

For the deployment, we start with the VR Automation, it's part of it.

The most valuable feature is that this solution is complete, and you don't need any add-ons.

The UI should be more simplified so that fewer tech users are required.

The workflow can be complicated. I would like a simpler workflow, and I would like it to be more friendly to use.

In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs.

This solution is stable.

It's running automatically, we don't touch it, everything that we are doing, we do through the VR automation, not through the Orchestrator.

This solution is scalable.

We have not contacted technical support because we haven't needed to.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The deployment was part of the VR Automations, it only took thirty minutes.

We do not have a business relationship with VCenter Orchestrator, we are customers.

To do a day to day job, you already have everything that you need in this solution. Add-ons are not necessary. This is why it is a good solution.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is a cluster of servers which is managed by the vCenter cluster manager or vCenter Orchestrator. It controls workflows for us. 

The powerful management console for each allocation gives the foundation of the organization. The ability for maneuvering in the location of computing resources and storage to reach the required performance for the IT department satisfies the organization's basic needs.

The solution's HA feature is very good. The VRS and multi-source scheduling are very helpful. The port to run feature is good as well.

The user interface is very user-friendly.

The solution could be a little bit less expensive. It used to be cheaper, but now it is very costly and the license model counts by the processor. The currency conversion rate in Egypt is very high, and a couple of thousand dollars means here a lot of money to us here.

Mainly VMware integrates with other products, but there is no easy way to link with other products from a different vendor. We can integrate with other products from the same vendors fairly well, but if they could make it so integration is easier with other vendors, that would really help.

The solution is very scalable.

Communication with technical support is very good. It has a repository of knowledge base articles which we can access which are very helpful.

The initial setup was very easy.

We mostly use the private cloud deployment model.

I would recommend the solution. I'd rate it 8.5 out of ten.