VMware Cloud Director Reviews

We are a service partner that offers cloud services based on Cloud Director.

One valuable feature is the true multitenancy capabilities for the core infrastructure service that Cloud Director provides.

Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud. Cloud Director should be capable of hooking up with those. For example, they recently started allowing customers to perform S3 integrations with Cloud Director. So a customer can integrate his S3 buckets from AWS with the Cloud Director. Okay, fine. But what about Azure? There should be more integration capabilities. 

Secondly, VMware has made some progress in terms of balancers, but I think it needs a little more refinement and flexibility. This is not limited to just the VMware marketplace. More flexibility will make it easier for any service provider to leverage and monetize them.

Last but not least, from a networking and monitoring perspective, there should be a little more native monitoring capabilities, especially metering capability. Metering is one of the areas where I find Cloud Director leaves much to be desired. VMware can do more to make it a much more metered product.

Cloud Director's out-of-the-box capabilities should be good enough that you don't have to look for a third-party product to give you those capabilities. Networking-wise, I think it's good. Still, I think the networking capabilities are not fully realized on Cloud Director.  VMware should do a little more work to reveal all of the capabilities through Cloud Director rather than just at the back of Cloud Director. You've got to have those features exposed to customers as a self-service rather than managed service.

I've been using Cloud Director since 2012.

Scalability is a word you have to look at from different perspectives. I think some of the capabilities they have introduced in terms of load balancing deliver out-of-the-box scalability for tenants. But as a product itself, Cloud Director needs more multi-site capabilities. I have seen some work being done but that's just a start, I would say.

My experience with VMware support has been mixed. Sometimes you get fantastic support. The techs are really knowledgeable and know what they're talking about. But then there are certain times where I have seen some things that affect the client as well. So I think VMware support has some room for improvement. They can do much better. VMware as a brand definitely can do better in terms of response times and capabilities. 

The Cloud Director setup has improved tremendously compared to where it started. I have seen how complex it used to be. Now, it has become easy and robust. The setup is more straightforward and seamless than before. 

In certain cases, the price of Cloud Director is quite high, especially with the load balancing and other features they've introduced. That seems quite costly. Overall, for VSPP programming, I think it's okay. However, features like enterprise load balancing and all these other things are very costly.

I rate Cloud Director eight out of 10. As a service provider, we have to look at a couple of available and other things, so I would rate it around eight. I have to deduct two points because some small things make a huge difference to a service provider, but they might not matter too much from a customer-experience perspective. 

This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers. It's also good for enterprises that want to keep a more segregated approach to their different departments and things. You definitely have much better control and a more streamlined way to offer services to your internal teams or your customers out-of-the-box in a multitenant way. And you don't need to worry too much about how you're going to network these things together or how you're going to control the assets of the computers and resources. 

In my experience, it is a very robust product. I have used this product since the initial version and watched it evolve into a highly mature product. It's a stable, truly multitenant software and the go-to tool for infrastructure as a service.

Flexibility – it allows me to adapt the product to all student needs.

Students using the environment vs. not using the environment. Students can find products that they want to use and if they’re using it, they’re happy with it.

Better GUI as they don’t hold with the programs that well. Better user interfaces in general. Both the administrative and user interfaces need to be better.

It’s fairly stable, no bugs no crashes.

It scales fine, it went from 1,000 to 2,000 machines without any issues at all.

Technical support’s wonderful. Whenever we find an issue, we submit a ticket and they resolve it within an hour usually. Sometimes the complexity of the environment is high, and that’s fine, but usually it’s very quick.

We were using Lab Manager, and when VMware discontinued it, we needed to switch.

Complicated – there was no upgrade path from Lab Manager to vCloud Director, so we basically had to design a new solution.

No, because of the time VMware has been in the market. I don’t like using people that are new, and VMware has been around for a long time. Also, we just thought it would be simpler to stay with the same vendor.

I really don’t know of any products right now other than this. They’re pretty high – if someone has a peer review that’s low, I won’t consider the product.

The orchestrator is the most valuable feature.

It helps us provide private cloud solutions to our clients.

Though the product is quite good, I feel it needs a more public view, where the server access studies to migrate organizations into cloud be clearer. Also, orchestrator should be API based, and have templates to use instead of having to create the Java scripting from scratch. It also needs to be more independent of the platform on which it is used on.

I've used it for two years.

It's very good.

It was complex as it does not include a good, extensive feasibility and compatibility guide.

We used a vendor team who were very good.

It is quite good on ROI and year on year it is about 50%.

vCloud Director is a good solution, but it is costly when compared to other solutions like Nutanix.

We didn't evaluate other solutions.

Choosing VMware in general, is best in terms of functionality, but it is not necessarily cost effective, as their licensing and setuo cost are too hight. Maybe we will see more products for cloud and automation.

The physical segmentation of networking and security.

Lately we have been using it to import acquisition products into our environment without reconfiguring them at all, due to how the segmentation works.

I feel like vCloud is two years behind the feature set – in terms of the UI, and vCenter. I can't do the same tasks that I can do in terms of UI as with vCenter.

It's stable, usually admin error if something goes wrong.

It's infinitely scalable.

It's good overall. We have had times when it has been slower than we would have liked, but I would say that about every vendor we use.

Setup is easy.

It's all about the product, what limitations the product doesn’t have. We speak to vendors all the time, but once you see a product and how it will fit in then that’s the real test.

You can't go wrong with VMware. The stability and the flexibility it allows, they do it best compared to competitors. Peer reviews are fairly important but I try to form my opinion from a POC over anything else.

We use vCloud Director as a multiple cloud management solution.

This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis.

I have been using vCloud Director within 12 months.

The solution is stable but could improve.

I have found the solution scales well.

The support responsiveness has been satisfactory.

The license could be less expensive and we are on a perpetual license.

We are evaluating Dynamics from Cisco to perhaps replace this solution.

We are looking for another solution that meets our needs.

I rate vCloud Director a seven out of ten.

We are using it as our QA environment.

It has helped us with user segmentation and QA.

It is fast at deploying environments and good for segmenting users.

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.

Stability is okay.

Scalability is great.

I haven't used technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward.

It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.

I haven't used any alternative solutions.

Go for this solution, but you will need quite a big environment to utilize vCloud Director.

It has easy to deploy machines.

A department can deploy a machine easily without using the IT department.

I only used it for four months.

None in this version.

No issues encountered.

Yes, a lot including, for example, with Chargeback Manager integration.

8/10.

5/10 as the VMware support seem very ignorant.

No, but in the future, we are planning to install Open Stack as it's simpler.

It has an easy setup by following the documentation.

We used a vendor team who I would rate as 7/10.

We couldn't calculate it.

Yes, with other colleagues. No implementations being done by us at the moment.

I think VMware has abandoned the product a with vSphere 5.5, vCloud Director is an obsolete solution. As VMware no longer offers the product, it is now difficult to implement.