We performed a comparison between vCloud Director and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization. It is very handy for monitoring. VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good. I'm very happy with VMware. VMware is good in management and monitoring systems."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to get a view of our entire environment in a single pane of glass. We're a very large company, so going from one interface to another to troubleshoot an issue, or even just to get capacity information, is time-consuming and not efficient. Being able to go to one place and get that information is very helpful."
"We can detect when, for example, one host is getting hit by a lot of VMs and we can take care of that host. It enables us to add more memory, more CPU, or maybe we just replace the host."
"I rated this solution an eight because it's intuitive and easy to use. The features that it'll bring us are tremendous"
"From an admin and operations perspective, the solution is intuitive and user-friendly."
"It gives the real-time info that we need to diagnose any problems that we have with our VDI infrastructure."
"They keep improving and updating their apps over time."
"The initial setup is quite easy and straightforward. The majority of the time, implementing vROps is not time-consuming."
"What we do, as a whole for our group... is storage virtualization and the compute side. This product brings all those pieces into one interface and now we can actually correlate data between them."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"Security has been a boom for companies in the last few years, and considering how important security is, there have been a lot of tools that offer better integrations. So, the current tool can be used for any integrations in any environment, which is something VMware is not yet that efficient at."
"In this vCenter, my wish is to establish a backup system that doesn't require VIN. It involves creating a backup ticket directly from the vCenter for the virtual machines and performing the backup task for each server, ensuring redundancy without the need for additional software. This would be a preferable solution if all of this could be accomplished within vCenter itself."
"We would like the return of the additional partner marketplaces, like DataCore. My customers miss the integration to DataCore."
"When we first bought it, our vision was to use role-based access, give application teams access to view a dashboard for their stuff. We found out that the vROps tool can't handle more than about 20 concurrent sessions... We have some 3000 applications."
"The main concern would be just to make sure that there's some consistency when third-parties are building their various content packs for it. It seems like it's pretty random in terms of what you're going to get. A vendor is are going to provide whatever they provide but it's really hit or miss in terms of how good the quality is."
"A reporting engine would be good, where the database could dump into something like Splunk integration, so we could write our own reports."
"VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) can improve the Layer 3 hypervisor VM infrastructure because we do not manage other applications. We need a package, which is too expensive. We would like to manage native VMware applications, VMware native components, hypervisor, and storage, such as vSAN."
"They need to improve the capacity and infrastructure planning side of things. Also, I would like to see them integrate more stuff, with more detailed monitoring and different cloud providers."
vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 360 reviews. vCloud Director is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, CloudStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and CloudPhysics. See our VMware Aria Operations vs. vCloud Director report.
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