We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."
"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"The stability of the product is very good."
"The backup and recovery times are very quick."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"Technical support is helpful."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The GUI should be enhanced in the future."
"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’s pricing and integration could be improved."
"This solution needs to have more built-in workflows."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"A feature to review and setup tasks should be added."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 45 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes " Enables centralized management, but the tool is complicated and expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco CloudCenter and vCloud Director, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack.
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