We are in the process of evaluating products to replace vCloud Director as we are not a service provider. I have vRA 7 up and running and everything is working well. The only thing holding us back is the inability of our self-service users to clone VM's and make templates within vRA 7. We have over 3000 VM's in our vCD environment and most of our users need the ability to clone their own VM's and make their own templates to be used in making their own blueprints. In vCD they make catalog items from their VM's (or clones of them) so actual VM templates aren't needed. In vRA they can't do this. This was one of the big selling points to the business when we implanted Lab Manager and then vCD all those years ago. If we move to vRA, they will need IT (my team) to clone/make templates in vCenter for them. This will be a deal breaker for most as they heavily rely on this ability. Why would these basic features be missing from vRA? Or am I missing something? We can't be the only ones disturbed by this "downgrade" of features. Otherwise vRA 7 seems to deliver everything we need.
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