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Streamline your Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery

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VMware Cloud Director Availability - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

VMware Cloud Director Availability overview

What is VMware Cloud Director Availability?

VMware Cloud Director Availability is a business continuity and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution that allows users to migrate, protect, fail over, and reverse failover of vApps and virtual machines between multi-tenant clouds and on-premises via asynchronous replications.

VMware Cloud Director Availability allows businesses to manage disaster recovery and migration of VMware vSphere workloads from within a unified interface. VMware Cloud Director Availability enables service providers and tenants to migrate and protect vApps and virtual machines: from on-premises vCenter Server site to a VMware Cloud Director sites, from VMware Cloud Director site to an on-premises vCenter Server sites, from one VMware Cloud Director site to another VMware Cloud Director site and now one vCenter to another vCenter site.

Starting price

Free

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Pros & Cons

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Security and Access Control

Backup and Recovery

Data Recovery

User Documentation

VMware Cloud Director Availability’s user interface

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VMware Cloud Director Availability pros, cons and reviews insights

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Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
3-4(17)
5(64)

What do users say about VMware Cloud Director Availability?

It is an robust platform which supported us with all required features in data protection for our web platform, data recovery, backup and disaster recovery are such features which helped us in overall security.

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Who uses VMware Cloud Director Availability?

Based on 81 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Computer Software
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Others

Use cases

Backup
Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity
Endpoint Protection

VMware Cloud Director Availability's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from VMware Cloud Director Availability users:

Disaster recovery
Backup and recovery
Secure data storage

All VMware Cloud Director Availability features

Features rating:

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 and recovery
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
Disaster recovery
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 data storage
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

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User opinions about VMware Cloud Director Availability price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of VMware Cloud Director Availability's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“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.”
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Aadhya K.

Software Engineer

“It is an robust platform which supported us with all required features in data protection for our web platform, data recovery, backup and disaster recovery are such features which helped us in overall security.”
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Ankush G.

Research Associate

VMware Cloud Director Availability integrations (5)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 81 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as VMware Cloud Director Availability integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 4.5 (3)

Critical business based applications requiring 100% uptime.

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Ben S.

Infrastructure Architect

Integration rating: 4.0 (3)

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

Integration rating: 1.0 (1)

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Cohesity

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

The integration with Cohesity and VMWare vSphere could not have been easier. The backup / restore processes are critical to the organizations survivability.

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Ben S.

Infrastructure Architect

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

VMware Cloud Director Availability support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live rep)
Chat

Training options

In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos

VMware Cloud Director Availability FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of VMware Cloud Director Availability?

VMware Cloud Director Availability has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Mid-size Business, Large Enterprises

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Q. What level of support does VMware Cloud Director Availability offer?

VMware Cloud Director Availability offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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