# VMware Cloud Director Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Server Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About VMware Cloud Director The VMware vCloud Suite is a complete cloud infrastructure solution that simplifies IT operations while delivering the best SLAs for all applications. ## VMware Cloud Director Reviews ### 1. One of its kind cloud platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roman-Oko S. | Security and Risk Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2022 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** It is possible to improve budgeting process and online information that assists users in using it. It would be helpful to have extensive video instruction on how to comprehend and use this software. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** NSX has a simplistic version that is available, but it lacks an advanced mode that might handle things like security apparatus and a fundamental network. -The computing capacity pooling is severely constrained for clients wishing to manage workload virtual machines. Its feature set is restricted, but restricted. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an integrated software platform that combines compute vSphere, disk vSAN, and virtualized network NSX into a single platform that can be installed on-premises as a private cloud or run as a service in a public cloud using SDDC Manager, an automated life - cycle management tool. ### 2. VMware Cloud are one of powerfull cloud Pruduct which i used and implement in my project. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miduk . | Project Manager and Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** VMware Cloud Director provides a centralized management and automation platform for virtual data centers, enabling to provision and manage virtual machines, networks, and storage resources for their tenants. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** some of them for example form some aspect like cost too high, limited scalability, integration issue and also complexity not suit in every organization's needs. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware Cloud Director helps service providers and organizations to deliver IaaS in a more efficient, scalable, and automated manner, while providing tenants with the flexibility and control they need to manage their own resources ### 3. VMware Cloud Director is a good product and suitable for standard industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miduk p. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** VMware Cloud Director is a powerful, scalable, and flexible cloud management platform that provides a centralized platform for managing multi-tenant infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** Some potential limitations or drawbacks of VMware Cloud Director that users or organizations may consider like Cost, Complexity, Limited Customization, Integration with Other Clouds and Resource Utilization as well **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mware Cloud Director aims to solve a number of key problems facing organizations that are looking to deliver and manage infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds. ### 4. Best visualization product in the market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek K. | Assistant System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2022 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** We can manage physical resources from anywhere and anytime in the cloud. Whenever any resource resource required we can securely managed remotely. We can improve utilization of resource **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** The worst part is end user ui is not good, it should improve, it consume lots of ram storage itself, nothing. User interface little bit complex to understand and manage. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Physical server to cloud made easy to manage deployment of virtual machines, high availability if any issue in host it migration to another host is the powerful feature it better than hyper v. ### 5. VMware Cloud Director **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saloni P. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Control the several clouds you are using. Your whole portfolio of cloud-based apps can be built, managed, and secured with the support of VMware's integrated range of SaaS technologies. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** I don't have anything to dislike about VMware Cloud Director. This is the best cloud-based app. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** In order to implement X-as-a-Service, Cloud Providers can automate intricate infrastructure-as-code workflows and tile UI-driven procedures using VMware Cloud Director while still retaining access control and visibility. ### 6. Cloud Service platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Santosh S. | IT Modernization (Azure) Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2022 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Deliver secure, isolated and elastic virtual data center **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** Complex network setup and their subnet need more learning **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** overall day-to-day operations ### 7. Create or extend your Datacenter to the Cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Depending on your needs you can use vCloud Director to create your environment, without worrying about the physical dependencies as long has you have been provided the resources. You can create your services as you would on-premises, vCloud Director can also be a solution for Disaster Recovery, if you have your VMs locally or in another provider you can replicate the workloads to vCloud Director and from there run your recovery procedure. If you are a Service Provider then this a multi-tenant platform that allows you to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It has policy-based control to manage the diferent tenants while keeping data segregation and security. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** The dependency of flash client that is not compatible with all of the operating systems, such as linux. Some operations such as downloading VMs are a bit tricky to perform. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Cloud Director:** The new versions can be deployed as an appliance and the requirement for an external database has been removed,now all of the services are available in a single appliance. This product itself is not a full competitor for AWS or Azure, but it can be extended with another product vRealize automation. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** vCloud Director allows us to provide our customers with a platform that is stable and secure to house their services with the minimal of user interaction. We just need to fill the Catalog with the services that the customer wants, from there the customer is autonomous. ### 8. The best and only serious virtualization platform out there. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hans D. | Senior Kofax Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** vCloud is backed by VMWare, the company that brings the gold standard for virtualization that most all companies utilize in their data centers. vCloud takes the experience and knowledge of VMWare one step further and provides a platform familiar to companies in order to extend their infrastructure to the cloud with minimal configuration. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** As with any hosting platform one pays a premium for the VMWare name, especially when it comes to scaling out virtual machines and resources in the cloud. Pay careful attention to pricing on network bandwidth and storage to ensure the cost of vCloud is in fact cheaper than hosting your own infrastructure. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** vCloud makes for a great platform for hosting active directory, email, and web services as well as federated active directory services in the cloud. Solutions have been realized as well hosting CentOS linux servers for short term, high availability projects. ### 9. security & advanced monitoring and reporting **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajakta S. R. | Senior Product Manager - Marketing analytics, Big Data, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** One stop for cloud management with capabilities to enable cloud computing **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** Integration with existing cloud management systems? **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secured data storage and computing use cases ### 10. Cudos VMware! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nurman Z. | Web Designer, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Personally, I like the concept of vCloud. In theory, its low-hanging fruit for existing customers wanting to build a hybrid cloud. Also vCloud offers simpler GUI layered on top for less expert users and the pricing is also surprisingly attractive. vCloud also offers the easiness to move an existing VMware setup into the vCloud. Tech Support was excellent when I needed it. They pretty helpful and fast response to help me **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** the limitation of vCloud is that I can't define anti-affinity rules. Beside that vCloud is amazing and the pricing is reasonable **Recommendations to others considering VMware Cloud Director:** using vCloud requires no changing your procedures, no converting your applications, no rewriting the entire thing from scratch. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** the disaster recovery and the data backup save me from the trouble. It also what originally promised to be: accessing to a seemingly unlimited pool of resources upon which you can run your own workloads ### 11. Great for an all in experience, but Hybrid is difficult **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Integration with other VMWare components such as VCenter. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** Connectivity to the data centers used was limited to VPN in our case because there wasn't a Direct Connect partner we could use. Backups were horrendous, and failed on very large jobs consistentlyi. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Cloud Director:** You really need to be all in or all out with this solution. A Hybrid setup is still too difficult for companies with a bulk of legacy applications. Backups, although you do have backups, aren't very feature rich. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at this point because we had to discontinue use of the product. ### 12. The Best Virtualization Software. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Powerful virtualization software. Stable and reliable and easy to setup and use. VMware vCloud Air is the public cloud. VMware’s based data center. Actually it included several different services: infrastructure, disaster recovery, data protection, and various applications as service. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** Need to have View Composer set up on a different server in order for it to be recognized **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to move an existing VMware setup into the vCloud Air service and Tech support was excellent ### 13. vcloud is great for a disaster recovery service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Duane B. | Independent Contractor, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** We use the vcloud service for off site data storage in the event there is a catastrophic event at one of our facilities. Thankfully, we have never had to use it, but there is a piece of mind knowing our data is safe. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** The only thing we dislike is paying for the service by the hour, but the peace of mind is well worth the price. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** data backup and disaster recovery ### 14. VCloud Service Works Pefectly. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** I like the Real-time 99% Accurate Human-Assisted or Software Voicemail to Text Transcription. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** I dislike that the website seems a little slow. If it was faster, it would be much better. **Recommendations to others considering VMware Cloud Director:** I need to use it a bit more but I like the idea of Real-time 99% Accurate Human-Assisted or Software Voicemail to Text Transcription. **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time 99% Accurate Human-Assisted or Software Voicemail to Text Transcription helps us cut down on employees and overhead. ### 15. Functional! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Awesome cloud based computing service. Very similar UI to VSphere which makes it easy to transition and learn from. It's navigation is easy to understand coming from the VMWare line of products. Also, I like the $300 credit for signing up is nice. Allowed me to run a small VM for 2 weeks. Perfect for the hybrid entry experience we were looking for. **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** There's a lot of display bugs that get in the way of initializing the product. Reloading or moving tabs sometimes eliminates the bugs. It's very quirky. I had difficulty uploading an iso and in addition to some browser quirks, it just feels really buggy. However, it's really tough to use this product because of glaring interface issues. Even when you do get past the UI, sometimes the functionality doesn't work, which defeats the purpose of using ANY product. ### 16. vmware is great if you are running virtual machines with a hypervisor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Good for virtualisation and allowing repeatable environments to run on any machine **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** It can ramp up memory and has to be restarted **What problems is VMware Cloud Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development server that reflects the production server. Provisioning with manifests prevent 'snowflake' setups. ### 17. vCloud, what more could you want? **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2015 **What do you like best about VMware Cloud Director?** Easy to set up and use The best software on the market for virtualization **What do you dislike about VMware Cloud Director?** This software will cost you or your company quite a bit of money, so it might be hard to get it through the "system" **Recommendations to others considering VMware Cloud Director:** Go for it, it's absolutely worth the money/the extra investment ## VMware Cloud Director Discussions - [What is VMware Cloud Director used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vmware-cloud-director-used-for) - [View VMware Cloud Director pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-cloud-director/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+07%3A47%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=03be91d6-cf5a-43de-8baa-4e740611fd6f&secure%5Btoken%5D=4d2a7214d8d7ccfb1e44004fa67c5be4a17c723a479d10d5b883bbbb83b1f4a6&format=llm_user) ## VMware Cloud Director Features **Administration** - Database Management - Access Control - Data Security **Infrastructure Provision** - Public Cloud - Private Cloud - Hybrid Cloud - Bare Metal - High-Performance Computing (HPC) - Virtual Machines (VMs) - Edge Computing - Virtual Networks **Performance** - Scalability - Portability - Data Recovery **Federation** - Architecture - Provisioning - Orchestration - API / Integrations **Management** - Pay by Usage - Usage Tracking - Performance Tracking **Functionality** - OS Integration - Resource Saving - Performance Management - Security **Transformation** - Data Visualization - Application Performance - Data Modeling **Functionality** - Resource Auto-Scaling **Agentic AI - Server Virtualization** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top VMware Cloud Director Alternatives - [Azure Virtual Machines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-machines/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (375 reviews) - [SAP HANA Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (519 reviews) - [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (875 reviews)