VMware Cloud Director Reviews

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.

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.

Ability to give our developers a self-service environment, where they can go on particular portal and deploy their own systems.

Automation piece. If we can continue to develop automation for developers, that should seamlessly carry over into product environment as well without admin heavy lifting. In automation, there's still a lot of manual processes, but with vCloud, less so.

I don’t see any improvements that could be made based on the way we use it. Maybe some built-in third-party tools that we’re using now in terms of automation (i.e. Bamboo) would be an improvement.

We’ve already deployed three-tiered applications with just a push of a button to deploy from dev to staging to production.

In regards to stability, this gives you more control yet takes out the human element. There’s consistency that’s set in the script and then we can make small changes as we grow.

They’re now moving more into vRealize and more integrated systems. It used to need more scripting, but VMware are now working more hand in hand with other solutions.

Great tech support. I love those guys. Every time I had a ticket, I could escalate, and they’d work in tandem with other vendors (i.e. NetApp) to find solution.

I wasn't part of initial set-up, but I believe it’s complex based on the senior engineer’s experience.

For example, right now the metrics to upgrade is complex, requiring certain elements. It’s very simple to use and train end-users. In our shop, we try to make them more self-sufficient, so a lot of knowledge transfer.

Access the enormous amount of virtual apps they have to get practical performance instead of just the KB to deploy. They also need to get an understanding of audience as well. Understand pain points to understand how to approach solution.

It loses points because things are moving so quickly that it has yet to catch up.

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.

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.

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.