Huawei Cloud Server Migration Service (SMS) vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Huawei Cloud Server Migration Service (SMS)
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Server Migration Service (SMS) help migrate workloads from on-premises x86 physical servers or VMs on private or public clouds to ECSs on Huawei Cloud. SMS migrates OSs and system configurations, including security hardening and user permission management configurations, from the user's servers, to ECSs on Huawei Cloud.N/A
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
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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
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Huawei Cloud Server Migration Service (SMS)

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VMware Cloud Director
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.
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.
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 …
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Small Businesses
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Score 7.0 out of 10

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Enterprises
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10

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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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.
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Pros
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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.
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Cons
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  • 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)
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Alternatives Considered
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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.
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Return on Investment
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  • 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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