AWS Systems Manager vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Systems Manager
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
AWS Systems Manager allows users to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. With it, users can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. Systems Manager allows users to select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch…
$0.20
Per Million Calls
VMware Cloud Director
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
Pricing
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Editions & Modules
AppConfig
$0.20
Per Million Calls
OpsCenter
$2.97
Per 1,000 Items
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Considered Both Products
AWS Systems Manager
VMware Cloud Director
Chose VMware Cloud Director
first we have much experience using vCloud Director. We have been using vCloud Director since version 5 until now version 10 something, we can provision VM servers to our tenant and than have multitenancy capability and can do allocation for usage and also can do quota limit if …
Chose VMware Cloud Director
Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.
Chose VMware Cloud Director
Hyper-V is built on a Windows platform that includes services not needed for the virtual environment adding overhead. With vCloud I'm not required to maintain a host OS or it's updates. The requirement to maintain storage devices is no longer needed with vCloud as well.
Chose VMware Cloud Director
vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset …
Features
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Systems Manager
8.0
Ratings
9% below category average
VMware Cloud Director
-
Ratings
Cloud Management Security8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Governance and Compliance9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Systems Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Small Businesses
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 9.4 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.6 out of 10

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Enterprises
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 9.4 out of 10

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User Ratings
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
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7.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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In-Person Training
-
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10.0
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Configurability
-
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10.0
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Product Scalability
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10.0
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User Testimonials
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
When you have a process running in aws that needs to copy files to group of instances as part of the process Installing software on a group of machines Adding Cloudwatch agent to instance.
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For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great.
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Pros
  • Copy files to a group of instance with particular tag
  • Enable CW agent and push metrics to CW
  • Easy to install software in a group of instances.
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  • Manages multi-tenancy very well. You can setup resource pools of compute, network, and storage that are independent of each other.
  • Easy to create and manage multiple environments.
  • Has lease management technology and can easily set leases and expire them based on pre-configured time frames.
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Cons
  • I would like to see the Search feature improved a bit more.
  • UI is little bit confusing initially
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  • Logging, there is a lot of logging but is not always clear where to look for the right logging.
  • The syncing of policy, you can't see if or what he did/didn't sync and the status of it.
  • More integrations with VMware product (click like Availability)
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Likelihood to Renew
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i give 10 for technically vCloud Director nearby with use case hyperscaller dashboard, but need improvement for billing need improve for integration with AVI Load balancer, NSX T, Surrounding 3rd party example for backyup as services purposes, can be create flavor for selective Operating System and also for specific sizing and
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Usability
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vCloud Director don't have any new feature, my feeling says that vCloud Director not become primary product of VMware, if this happen vCloud Director will be terminated. VMware should provide cloud management platform with agnostic with another virtualization technology example openstack, hyperv also with hyperscaller that will be have good feature
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Support Rating
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Suppor Excellent with global support, also collaborate with Global Support, Easy to open case from desktop, Easy to maintenance support, Reachable support with a broadcom, but sadly we suffer for positioning vcloud director right now that we have to collaborate with management. We contact support and also create ticket for that icon
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In-Person Training
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So far good when i get course vcloud director but with limit country for offline class at that time not included with exam so we can't claim any certfication for that (vCloud Director). Its good if this course also available online version so we can join from any place and any time
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Alternatives Considered
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Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.
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Scalability
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vcloud director have ui ux user friendy not complex and also can do many task exampe for providing copmpute allocation vcpu , ram and storage, Can Segregation Departement with ala carte virtual machine spesification. Can do dedicated portal for each organization this things to avoid mis provisioning workload virtual machine to another organization
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced team's time spent on EC2 management
  • Patch management
  • Remote access
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  • vCloud Director requires less IT administration. For example, there isn't a need to maintain esx host. or storage administration like creating luns.
  • A negative impact is cost. vCloud Director has a monthly cost for storage, processor core, memory, and licensing.
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