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Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: VMware Cloud Director Availability Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Backup Software](/directory/31076/backup/software) > [VMware Cloud Director Availability](/software/1014046/vmware-cloud-director-availability) # VMware Cloud Director Availability Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/1014046/vmware-cloud-director-availability Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/1014046/vmware-cloud-director-availability?page=2) > VMware Cloud Director Availability delivers simple, secure, self-serve and cost-effective onboarding, migration, and disaster recovery > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 81 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### 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. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 81 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: VMware - **Founded**: 1989 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: For details on pricing model: Please email us at: CloudProviderDRoffer@vmware.com - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Traditional Chinese - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany and 68 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Application Security - Backup Scheduling - Backup and Recovery - Compliance Management - Data Replication - Device Management - Disaster Recovery - Incremental Backup - Monitoring - Policy Management - Reporting/Analytics - Secure Data Storage ## Integrations (5 total) - Amazon S3 - Rubrik - VMware Cloud Director - Veeam Data Platform - Zerto Virtual Replication ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Backup Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31076/backup/software) ## Related Categories - [Backup Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31076/backup/software) - [Disaster Recovery Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30207/disaster-recovery/software) - [Business Continuity Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30206/business-continuity/software) - [Endpoint Protection Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30907/endpoint-protection/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[NAKIVO Backup & Replication](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/161328/nakivo) — 4.8/5 (457 reviews) ## Reviews ### "VMware cloud director, a robust and reliable tool" — 5.0/5 > **Erik** | *19 October 2024* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: VMware cloud directory is a very stable and robust tool, in my experience using it I never experienced an outage > > **Cons**: In a ocassion I had to migrate a VM from VMware cloud director to GCP, it was not possible due to compatibility issues, so I have to create a new server from scratch, and then setup everything again. > > In general it was good, I never experienced big issues that compromise our operations, the migration capability might be because the version we were using. ----- ### "Best suite for DRaaS Solutions" — 4.0/5 > **Aadhya** | *27 August 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Possession of a smooth, reliable, and feaure-rich backup and disaster recovery solution with support for advanced cloud data security capabilities like authentication, access control and cloud data vulnerability assessment and management. Ease of backup schedule and backup log to enhance and streamline disaster recovery process. Support for incremental backup capabilities is also very useful as it allows us to schedule backup that restore only the data that has been created and changed since we conducted the previous backup. > > **Cons**: I can't remember any solid issues with VCDA since we implemented it to streamline our cloud data security and availability. > > VCDA has been a great addition to our organization's software stack. It is incredibly easy to utilize as it possesses a very smooth UI/UX design which makes backup schedule, vulnerability assessment, reporting and management a breeze. ----- ### "A VMware Cloud Provider point of view" — 5.0/5 > **Valentin** | *14 November 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to manage and train customer on itVery easy to migrate client to VCD with this productGive a DR solution for local VDC > > **Cons**: Reporting by client is quite complex and i need to do this manually, but it will change with next version of Usage MeterNeed to provide more storage that needed to customer for doing the failoverMonitoring the tool is quite complex, but possible need to deepdive inside API > > This tool is the more valuable pluging that you can have in VMware Cloud Director.First for customer that want to adopt VMware Cloud Director, second because it's an easy friendly tool for giving protection for customer.In terms of installation and management (point of view provider) it's very easy and scalable, minimum 3 Appliances on three level of networking, already hardened and no difficult cutomization needed ----- ### "yes" — 4.0/5 > **mee** | *15 June 2022* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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 ----- ### "A very nice solution" — 5.0/5 > **Philippe** | *14 June 2022* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use, reliable, highly configurable, robust > > **Cons**: Alerting and monitoring not very easy to implement and follow ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/1014046/vmware-cloud-director-availability?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/1014046/vmware-cloud-director-availability) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | sv | | ----- ## Structured Data