We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"The deployment is easy."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"Improvements could be made in the building feature since there isn't a real building feature associated with the product. We require a building feature to integrate with other solutions."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).
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