Cloud Director saves time, so you can go for an extra cup of coffee 😉
June 05, 2023

Cloud Director saves time, so you can go for an extra cup of coffee 😉

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • VMware Cloud Director Availability add-on

Overall Satisfaction with VMware Cloud Director

We are a cloud provider and we use Cloud director as the main entrance for our customers to access there VMware environment. From there they can do everything within there environment and go to Availability if there is a need voor a failover or migration.
As admin you can set limitations to the origination of a customer (like max CPU, memory and storage use) and set also the needed rights. Within the organization, the organization admin (de customer) can set his own set of user rights to his users.
Because the end user can do som much itself on a safe way, it safes us a lot of time and we know it secure.
  • Seperate organizations (customers)
  • Give end user the freedom to make new users in his own organization
  • Quotes on the organization (cpu, memory, storage), set Limits so the hardware underneath will not be over asked
  • The integration with Availability
  • Integration with multiple cloud director sites (you can just open one site but can enter all the other sites from there too)
  • 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)
  • Availability and scalability
  • Manageability, the organization, customers, products
  • Visibility of resource usage
  • Very secure, the rights are very good set. So customers do not interfere with each other
  • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
  • Stable, so little to non downtime
  • With P1 , good support
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.

Do you think VMware Cloud Director delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VMware Cloud Director's feature set?

Yes

Did VMware Cloud Director live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of VMware Cloud Director go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy VMware Cloud Director again?

Yes

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)