vCO Usage Survey 2013

Welcome to Our Survey.

Thank you for participating in the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) Usage survey. As part of ongoing improvement initiatives at VMware, we would like to collect your feedback through a list of questions in the following areas:

1. Your vCO Usage and Plug-in requirements
2. Overall feedback and needed enhancements
3. Some brief information about your organization

Your feedback is CRITICAL help us improve vCO and the benefits it can provide to your organization.

Thank you!
The vCO Team

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Please specify how often vCO is used in your organization to automate the following use cases:

Please list up to 3 additional vCO use cases (if any) according to their importance for your organization.

	Not at all	A bit	Somewhat	Very	Extremely
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2.
3.

How beneficial to your organization are the following plug-ins?

What NEW plug-ins (VMware/other vendor/standard protocol) do you need most? Please list in priority order and include product version if applicable:

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2.
3.

List the additional use cases that you would like to automate. Specify also the current duration for yeach task, and frequency of execution.

	Task Description	Current (Manual) Time in hours	How often do you execute this task? (per day/per week/per month)
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3

Please, specify whether you use any of the listed automation tools. If yes, please elaborate more on the reason to leverage them and the concrete use cases.

HP OO
BMC Atrium
Microsoft System Center Orchestrator
PowerShell
CISCO
Puppet
Chef
Others

In production, how often do you trigger workflows from the following vCO components

What are the top three CURRENT vCO features and capabilities that you find most valuable for your organization

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2.
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9.	What are the top three FUTURE vCO improvements/new features that would be most valuable for your organization?

	Remaining characters: 500

10.	Are there any any defects or functionality gaps that are preventing you from using certain vCO features or from automating certain use cases?

	Yes No Additional Comments Remaining characters: 1000

11.	Please, specify any additional comments and recommendations:

	Remaining characters: 500

12.

How long has your organization been using vCenter Orchestrator?

	Under 6 months
	Between 6 months and 1 year
	Between 1 and 2 years
	More than 2 years

13.

Please describe your datacenter in the following terms:

Approximate number of vCenter Server instances
Approximate number of ESX/ESXi hosts
Approximate number of virtual machines
Approximate number of new virtual machines provisioned each day
Number of vCO servers in production
Database used for vCO
vCO authentication type
vCO version used in production (version number and operating system)

14.

What scalability requirements do you need to achieve with vCO:

Approximate number of concurrent workflows
Approximate number of concurrent users
Approximate number of VMs or object in the vCO inventory

15.

What vCO Distribution do you use in production?

	vCO Standalone
	vCO distributed with vCenter Server Installer
	vCO Appliance

16.	Would you be willing to provide more detailed feedback to the vCO product team? If so, please provide your name, organization and contact information.

	Yes No Additional Comments

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