What is VMware Cloud Director Availability?
VMware Cloud Director Availability is a powerful solution built to offer simple, secure, self-serve and cost-effective onboarding, migration, and disaster recovery services “to” or “between” multi-tenant VMware clouds. It is available for partners on a rental as well as managed services model. Key Features include 1Min RPO, Continuous data protection, Failover testing, Advanced retention policy, DR & Migration Plan.
Who Uses VMware Cloud Director Availability?
VCDA is designed for managed service providers (MSPs) and Cloud Providers of all sizes that offer multi-tenanted cloud solutions to protect and migrate end customer workloads.
Where can VMware Cloud Director Availability be deployed?
Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop)
About the vendor
- VMware
- Founded in 1989
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
VMware Cloud Director Availability pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
VMware Cloud Director Availability does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. VMware Cloud Director Availability paid version starts at N/A.
About the vendor
- VMware
- Founded in 1989
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
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Reviews of VMware Cloud Director Availability
Angella W.
Tool used to test new technologies and services.
Comments: In one case, good protection is achieved by providing automated recovery methods before disasters strike. It generates a lot of peace of mind to be able to count on this system in our organization, the characteristics are incredible.
Pros:
Simple and safe against any bugs, it can be downloaded fast and easy to use, it is stable because it is a multi-user software, which is very good to have.
Cons:
It is a complex platform as it requires a lot of local disk space to make it work, the benefits are very good, just minor limitations that are quickly overcome.
Philippe G.
A very nice solution
Pros:
Easy to use, reliable, highly configurable, robust
Cons:
Alerting and monitoring not very easy to implement and follow
Mee J.
yes
Pros:
good software and was very accessible and this has enhanced various skills
Cons:
price was abit much and thought that this can be improved
Duncan W.
Polished and Feature Rich
Comments: The product is very polished and feature rich and pre-integrated into the VMware ecosystem. There is also great documentation and network diagrams already out there which will speed up the project to deploy this to production. The migrations are included at no additional charge which is a huge benefit to adoption of our cloud platform.
Pros:
The deployment process was very smooth and takes less than an hour even with a fully distributed environment. Also, integration with Cloud Director and vCenter server was seamless and automatic, even with self-signed certificates which are the default.
Cons:
Cloud Director must be present on one of the sides of a protection. It would be nice to allow VCDA to function without VCD and support our standalone vSphere and VCF environments.
Alternatives Considered: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Zerto Virtual Replication and Veeam Backup & Replication
Reasons for Switching to VMware Cloud Director Availability: Continuous replication instead of snapshot based replication provides less of an impact on customer workloads. The price was far cheaper than Zerto while still achieving near real-time RPOs.
Carroline achieng O.
Rich and outrageous Disaster recovery product for multiple environments
Comments: VMware Cloud Director Availability has provided me with the best experience anyone would ask for. The customer support is amazing and the dashboard is well organized which makes the entire architecture and user interface clean and understandable.
Pros:
The ability to reverse fail overs of apps is epic, reliable and very useful in recovering from data loss damages. It is rich in quality features and has an enormous accessibility making it possible for one to use it based on your needs. It offers an encrypted asynchronous replication Vmare Vsphere environment to ensure security.
Cons:
The only downside about VMware Cloud Director Availability is the large storage space it consumes. It requires a lot of RAM space in order to function adequately.
