#1 most frequent
United States of America
42.2%84 installations of 199
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 thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.
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Who Buys & Uses VMware Cloud Director
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.5%15 installations of 199
#3 most frequent
France
6.5%13 installations of 199
Cloud Director saves time, so you can go for an extra cup of coffee 😉
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
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.
Pros
- 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)
Cons
- 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)
Most Important Features
- 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
Return on Investment
- Saves a lot of time, and time is money
- Stable, so little to non downtime
- With P1 , good support
Other Software Used
Cohesity DataProtect, Zerto, VMware vCenter Server
Friendly cloud user interface for his own virtual data center
Pros
- Building virtual racks
- Managing the customers' network and security
- Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
- Integration with major software providers
Cons
- Backup
- integration with SDS different than vSAN
- Manage more granularly users
Return on Investment
- 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
Other Software Used
vRealize Operations, VMware NSX, Zerto Virtual Replication
Costly but worth the money.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
Hyper-V
Other Software Used
Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SQL Server
JW Review
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
Return on Investment
- 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