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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ACisco C9350 Series Smart Switches network architecture with a new generation of stackable fixed access switches that deliver security, scale, and flexibility purpose-built for an AI enterprise.N/A

    VMware Cloud Director

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AVMware 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
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Ethernet Switches
    Comparison of Ethernet Switches features of Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches and VMware Cloud Director
    Feature
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches
    7.9
    19 Ratings
    8% below category average
    VMware Cloud Director
    -
    Ratings
    Management Interface7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality of Service (QoS)8.114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Switch Scalability8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Switch Redundancy7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Aggregation (LACP)8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    RUCKUS Ethernet Switches
    Score1 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Cisco Ethernet Switches
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (19 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (19 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesVMware Cloud Director
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    If asked, I think I am likely to recommend Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches to a colleague because, in my experience, this Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches product Is well suited for mission critical enterprise network and software defined network
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    If you have a lot of customers that all need to have a separate place to work in, without the possibility of getting in each other way, and you want to safe yourself a lot of work. Than I strongly recommend you Cloud director. Ofcourse, only if you have a VMware environment as your working environment. If you just have a small group of customers and you can easily handle the work that's coming from it, then it is overkill to add cloud director to your environment. In a later station, you can always introduce cloud director (so tis never to late if you still want to use it)
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Inter-VLAN routing
    • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) helper
    • radius authentication
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Building virtual racks
    • Managing the customers' network and security
    • Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
    • Integration with major software providers
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches is expensive compared to other solutions that dont rely on the higher bandwidth capabilies
    • Requirement bandwidth of the 9350 may lead to degradation in throughput
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The add-on/extension required on the internet browser sometimes are difficult to get working at first. We've experience instances where the add-on/extension latest versions will not work and have to downgrade to an older version.
    • The server console lacks features and tools. For example it would be useful to have a copy and paste tool or a file upload tool.
    • The vCloud Director management site uses Adobe Flash, which makes it impossible to use on a mobile device.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
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    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    Cisco
    I gave Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches this usability rating because, in my experience, Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches are an Awesome product for 2.5G Base-T industry adoption and flexibility for higher count ports.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    Cisco
    The Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches brings he expected Cisco polish with better stacking and power features.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    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 it
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    Scalability
    Cisco
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    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    Cisco
    • The impact Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches have on our organization's overall business objectives is that they are very fast
    • Another impact Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches have on our overall business objectives is that we are happy to purchase them
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
    • Stable, so little to non downtime
    • With P1 , good support
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