We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Computing and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"Easy to operate and use."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"They can do any provisioning for the virtual machines. For instance, they will only see those resources if we allocate 10 Ghz database storage. The limitation is due to our setup: we need to ensure customer isolation, as vCloud Director supports multi-tenancy."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support. To be fair a lot of the issues that came up for us have been quite niche but it seems that in terms of release cycles they introduced a lot of bugs and it's a lot of stuff that support generally has to work quite hard on. There have been cases when we've logged critical priority issues and not had responses in time. I think support is something that can be worked on."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 9th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our IBM Spectrum Computing vs. vCloud Director report.
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