VMware Cloud Director Availability 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

VMware Cloud Director Availability

4.8

(81)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About VMware Cloud Director Availability

VMware Cloud Director Availability is a secure data migration and business continuity solution that lets users handle disaster recovery processes to or between multi-tenant cloud sites. It provides simplified onboarding and ensures the continuous availability of VMware vSphere workloads and automates recovery operations.

With the advanced Retention Policy, businesses can gain more control over replication cycles and the built-in DR & migration plans help sequence and time failover. It is a pervasive multi-tenant self-service cloud infrastructure control plane for cloud providers’ service-delivery needs.

The replicator service, manager service, cloud service, and tunnel service operate together to support the replication management, secure communication, and storage of the replicated data. Cloud providers can support recovery for multiple tenant environments that can scale to handle increasing loads for each tenant and for multiple tenants.

In an on-premises environment, Replicator Service and a preconfigured instance of Tunnel Service support replication management by using both the VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In and the VMware Cloud Director Availabil...

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VMware Cloud Director Availability Pricing and Plans

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VMware Cloud Director Availability Features

Popular features found in Business Continuity
Backup and Recovery
Disaster Recovery
Incident Management
Risk Assessment
Secure Data Storage
Task Management
More features of VMware Cloud Director Availability
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Anomaly/Malware Detection
API
Application Security
Archiving & Retention
Audit Management
Automated Scheduling
Automatic Backup
Backup Log
Backup Scheduling
Business Continuity Exercising
Compliance Management
Continuous Backup
Data Migration
Data Recovery
Data Replication
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Device Management
Document Storage
Duplicate Detection
Email Alerts
File Management
HIPAA Compliant
Incremental Backup
Local Server Options
Monitoring
Plan Development
Policy Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Remote Monitoring & Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Management
Risk Analysis
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduled/Automated Reports
Secure Login
Self Service Portal
Server Monitoring
SSL Security
Status Tracking
Task Scheduling
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Factor Authentication
User Management
Version Control
Vulnerability Management
Web Access/Restoration

VMware Cloud Director Availability Integrations

VMware Cloud Director

Veeam Data Platform

Zerto Virtual Replication

Amazon S3

Rubrik

VMware Cloud Director Availability User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

79%

21%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.7

Alisha D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

Secure and Convenient Cloud Operations

The solution is undoubtedly powerful and offers the most reliable disaster recovery services. The software can accommodate very huge workloads which has been key in actualizing our cloud optimization success.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's simple to run disaster recoveries between Multitenant VMware clouds. VMware has favorable deployment models. Makes cloud onboarding look like a breeze due to the self-service on-boarding option. The pricing is also affordable, it's up to you to pick a plan that favors you.

Cons:

VMware Cloud Director Availability as a whole is quite complex, (there are however simple functionalities) - we had to enroll our teams for additional VMware training first.

Derek W.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2023

Flexible and secure disaster recovery solution

This platform provides robust tools for secure disaster recovery. It has the ability to integrate seamlessly with our IT environment.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really like its simplified and secure cloud migration capability. The implementation process was very straightforward and ran within the expected timeframe. The solution provides effective replication traffic compression and TLS encryption. The unified administration makes it easy to manage users based on roles.

Cons:

This is a flexible and cost-effective disaster recovery solution. There is nothing to dislike about it.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2022

VMware Cloud Director Availability is a Robust Disaster recovery solution

Cloud backing and Disaster recovery has never been simpler. With a comprehensive guide for installation and operability, getting your head wrapped around how this DRaaS works is a downhill task. We use it to effectively reverse failovers and for successful VM migrations.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is efficient in reversing failover of virtual apps. Has a comprehensive manual and playbook to facilitate smooth installation. It can facilitate migration of vCenter servers while maintaining great interoperability.

Cons:

Not seen any fault with VMware Cloud Director Availability since installation.

Sandrah H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2022

Disaster Recovery Solution with amplified Efficiency

The VMware DRaaS integrates well with our cloud service provider to provide reliable disaster recovery solutions for all workloads in our company. The software is simple to set up but provides advanced endpoint protection and recovery services with top performance 24/7.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's simple to use since the tools are very familiar with modern HTML interfaces. Deployment of VMware Cloud Director Availability comes with high stability. The solution also maintains peak performance with large workloads taking its effectiveness to top levels.

Cons:

I am not completely impressed with the tired service model since workloads differ in several different aspects, it is controversial for their costs to be tiered together.

Gianna M.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed November 2022

Effective Data Protection and Multiple Activities Tracking Solution.

Monitoring system and very reliable data quality management product and its compliance management functionalities are very functional.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This platform has the easiest interface to adapt and all the features capabilities is productive. The tool allows easy marketing project data recovering and to manage all our customers contacts and other information as been easy through this platform.The effective solution for access control and the replication tools are also functional and easy to backup various project data.

Cons:

VMware Cloud Director Availability is quite easy Cloud platform to implement and they offer a free trial to the new users.

Maria D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2023

Reliable backup and data recovery tool

Data management from cloud servers has been successful with this great product. Disaster recovery services have prevented data loss and safeguarded confidential information from leaving the enterprise. Data security have enabled employees to focus on more productive programs without fear of cyber attacks.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This platform helps my team in data migration from on-premise to cloud storage servers. It monitors performance from the organization data centers. Data backup is efficient with automated recovery options that enhances effective workflows. It is cost-effective with robust customer support services.

Cons:

I have not experienced any challenge from the performance of this platform in the organization. The reliable services that we have received have boosted the company growth.

Anthony M.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed May 2023

G.I.E/A.M/Ts on DRaaS,VMS and ESXI IT Product

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Overwhelmed with an exceptional support on ESXI,DRaaS,VMS, Maleware protection, online backups services.

Cons:

Honestly nothing to register as con since it over delivers.

Jason G.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed June 2023

Highly Secure Data Backup Scheduling Package.

Nice reporting tool and disaster management and the Archiving capability on this platform is incredible and the data migration speed is more productive.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Security level on its data management environment and data source integration stability is nice. Recovering multiple Construction project data and files through platform is excellent and it saves project time.

Cons:

No major issues on this product, and the entire implementation process everything was perfect and their technical support is also reliable.

Kelvin G.

Verified reviewer

Construction

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed June 2023

Effective and Functional Disaster Management Package.

The data analytics and data encryption via the tool is excellent and i also love the data backup and data access control functionalities.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The data security on this platform and effective ability on multiple Construction project data recovering and the storage of various data is very secure.

Cons:

Helpful data protection system and to get used on all the features does not require much users time.