Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) vs. VMware Cloud Director

Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

VMware Cloud Director

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager drives continuous health in dynamic data center environments, whether on-premises or in a public cloud. The real‑time decision engine provides automatable actions that adjust infrastructure resources at every layer of the stack to ensure the performance of your applications. When your infrastructure is continuously performant, your teams can focus on what matters to the business.	N/A
VMware Cloud Director	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

VMware Cloud Director

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)	VMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)	VMware Cloud Director
Considered Both Products	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) Easy integration and more user-friendly. We selected this platform because of the price and the name. Honestly, Cisco is better known for the technology than a no-name brand for us, so it was easier to persuade upper management than explain who the company is for another … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Urbani It tehcnician Chose Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) This is a bit simpler to use. It is more optimized for a smaller IT company, one that does not require as high of software. Incentivized Helpful? Gerardo Huerta Robles Ingeniero Consultor Chose Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) Cisco WOM now is integrated with Cisco Intersight so you will have in one dashboard the benefits of these solutions. In order to get all in one dashboard, Cisco recommends integrating through their secure API. Incentivized Helpful? Luke Villareal Owner \| Co-Founder Chose Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) Cisco Workload Optimization Manager is a trusted brand and tool. I never have to worry about the products working and wondering whether or not I'll have the support on the back end if something were to go wrong. I chose them because they were also competitive on pricing … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware Cloud Director Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware Cloud Director 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. Incentivized Helpful? Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology Chose VMware Cloud Director Hyper-V is built on a Windows platform that includes services not needed for the virtual environment adding overhead. With vCloud I'm not required to maintain a host OS or it's updates. The requirement to maintain storage devices is no longer needed with vCloud as well. Incentivized Helpful? John Wellen Cloud Technical Lead Chose VMware Cloud Director 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 … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

VMware Cloud Director

Workload Automation

Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) 8.6 Ratings 4% above category average	VMware Cloud Director - Ratings
Multi-platform scheduling	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Central monitoring	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Logging	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Application integration	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)	VMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)	VMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Workload Optimization is there to allow tasks to be optimized, prioritized, and facilitated to increase the company's growth and expansion direction. More so, Cisco Workload Optimization brings the ideals of solid engagement, where the collaboration comes in, and the innovations among other procedures suit the company's needs. Cisco Workload Optimization has a consistent approach to controlling the resources for a specific job role. Incentivized SL Steve Licky Systems Software Engineer Read full review	For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great. Incentivized Raffaello Poltronieri Cloud Solutions Architect Read full review
Pros	Automated actions alerts and config Monitoring apps Managing apps and resources Incentivized Gerardo Huerta Robles Ingeniero Consultor Read full review	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. Incentivized John Wellen Cloud Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	User Interface Modern Feel Incentivized Luke Villareal Owner \| Co-Founder Read full review	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) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Easy integration and more user-friendly. We selected this platform because of the price and the name. Honestly, Cisco is better known for the technology than a no-name brand for us, so it was easier to persuade upper management than explain who the company is for another competitor in an RFP. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Lower costs with accurate sizing. Great workload performance. Utilization and workload density. Incentivized Sarah Urbani It tehcnician Read full review	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. Incentivized Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology Read full review
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