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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…
Cloud Director saves time, so you can go for an extra cup of coffee 😉
Friendly cloud user interface for his own virtual data center
Costly but worth the money.
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What is VMware Cloud Director?
VMware Cloud Director Technical Details
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.
Reviews
(1-4 of 4)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)
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)
- 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
- 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
Costly but worth the money.
- 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.
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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.
- 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