We performed a comparison between OpenNebula 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."It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"With a single click, we could set things up and initiate them."
"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."
"It is quite easy to deploy."
"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"The stability is rock solid."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."
"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."
"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."
"The UI, monitoring, and alerting could benefit from further improvements."
"They should add more features like object storage."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"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."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
OpenNebula is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. OpenNebula is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". OpenNebula is most compared with CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations and Morpheus, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our OpenNebula vs. vCloud Director report.
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