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Powerful, Scalable, and Flexible Cloud Management Platform: Many users have praised VMware Cloud Director as a powerful, scalable, and …
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What is VMware Cloud Director?
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…
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Powerful, Scalable, and Flexible Cloud Management Platform: Many users have praised VMware Cloud Director as a powerful, scalable, and flexible cloud management platform that allows for the centralized management of multi-tenant infrastructure. This feature has been mentioned by several reviewers who appreciate the platform's ability to handle their cloud management needs effectively.
Easy Integration with Third-Party Tools: VMware Cloud Director has received positive feedback from users for its seamless integration with other third-party tools. These integrations provide added value to customers by allowing them to leverage existing tools and resources within the VMware Cloud Director ecosystem.
Customization Options: The customization options offered by VMware Cloud Director have been well-received by users. Features such as white labeling allow resellers to customize the platform with their organization's branding elements, including corporate colors and logos. This flexibility gives customers the opportunity to create a personalized look and feel for their virtual environment.
Installation and Configuration Complexity: Some users have found the installation and configuration process of VMware Cloud Director to be complex. They have suggested that it could be made easier by providing clearer instructions and simplifying the steps involved.
SSL Renewal Process Takes Too Long: The SSL renewal process has been criticized for taking an excessive amount of time, causing inconvenience for users. Urgent improvements are recommended to streamline this process and reduce downtime.
End-User UI Needs Improvement: The end-user interface of VMware Cloud Director has received negative feedback from users who find it difficult to navigate and manage. Improvements such as a more intuitive design and simplified workflows would greatly enhance user experience.
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vCloud Director was chosen in 2012 when our company started offering its Cloud services. We offer vCD interface to all our customers selling resources in place of simple VMs, so vCD means for them a key to access their personal virtual datacenter. We decided to use vCD and not a customized interface because it's supported by VMware for any bug, issue, update/upgrade, and its time to market is near to zero.
- Building virtual racks
- Managing the customers' network and security
- Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
- Integration with major software providers
- Backup
- integration with SDS different than vSAN
- Manage more granularly users
- Time to market = 0 means profits almost immediate after investment
- Customers trust the VMware brand more than any other
- Elasticity: allowing the company to choose the best HW in the lower layer
July 19, 2017
Costly but worth the money.
vCloud Director is being used to manage our VMware virtual
server environment. It allows for an easier process creating virtual machines
or complete configuration changes. A challenge we faced was migrating
our existing Hyper-V virtual servers overs to vCloud environment.
- The advantage to using vCloud Director is it a cloud based application allowing access anywhere. I have the ability to make changes to our virtual environment without being in the office or using a vpn.
- The vCloud Director provides a lot of the same features as vSphere.
- 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.
- 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.
February 05, 2016
JW Review
We previously used it to support our entire cloud environment over various Flexpods. This was at SCE. Today at Datalink, it is something we consult on mainly and will deploy where needed.
- 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.
- It is not good for end users or customers to use. The UI is geared more towards VMware admins.
- There is somewhat of a learning curve to it, you have to think through and plan out how you want to set your OVDC and PVDCs up. It takes a lot of architecture experience.
- Once you built workloads in vCloud director, it's real difficult to take them out or manage them directly in vSphere. This is a huge pain.
- Faster deployment of workloads
- Better utilization of resources through the ability of managing leases
- Ability to deploy multi-tenant environments that are exclusive to one another
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.