We performed a comparison between BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 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."By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"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."
"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."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"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."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Management while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management vs. vCloud Director report.
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