SAP Cloud Appliance Library vs. VMware Cloud Director

Best for Trail run system to test a sandbox and our new feature's and configuration and custom code application to evaluate how system is responding and what are the new changes can be incorporated and is there any additional cloud application changes need or any other server requirements need can be tested and we can know exactly our plans from this SAP CAL trail system

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

• Easy installation
• Click and use and pay as you use
• SAAS

• 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

• None at this time, it has worked well for us.

• 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

You could do it yourself, or wait for your hosting provider to provide it, but that takes time.

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

• Easy, quick way to access SAP systems.
• Evaluations.
• System trials.

• 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