We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) 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."Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Clusters is to protect the data."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution can scale well."
"I've been very pleased with their support overall."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"We've had some challenges with the implementation."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes."
"There are still some things that could be improved about the product."
"The pricing can be better."
"Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be."
"The technical support for Nutanix Clusters could be better."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 19th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure VMware, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations and Morpheus. See our Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs. vCloud Director report.
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