We performed a comparison between Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, IBM, Nutanix and others in Virtualization Management Tools."My experience with the solution's technical support was perfect. They are so knowledgeable, all of them. They don't take any chances."
"Heat maps are valuable."
"The solution gives suggestions regarding whether resources are underutilized or overutilized."
"It has increased the speed of VM deployment. A normal server request would come in, it could take anywhere from three to four days to deploy and now within 15 minutes they can click and have something up and running. IT support for developers is nice as well because they are able to manage the environment themselves."
"With this solution, we are able to see where problems are happening quickly and improve turnaround time, which matters to us."
"It speeds up time for troubleshooting and it gives simple-to-use dashboarding for executives and managers to be able to see what the issues are in an easy way, so they can escalate or question. From an operations side it lets you get to the core of the apple and figure out the problem quickly."
"The most valuable features of VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) are capacity and performance management."
"We can actually use it to expand on other aspects of it by adding additional packs is really good."
"The scalability is great. We have never had any issues with it being unable to size properly in our environment."
"When something breaks, it's not easy for us to fix. I'm running a banking solution at my company and when there's a problem, I need to be proactive and quick to resolve the problem immediately."
"A lot of feedback that we're getting from some of our engineers who are actually using Operations today is that the graphics are very low-key. When it comes to red, yellow, green, yes, "Skittles Theory," but when it actually comes down to what's optimized and what's not optimized, it's very rudimentary. If they could actually make nicer pie charts or graphics involved in it, it would make it a lot easier to read the data on a higher level, rather than actually having to dive down and know specifically what you're looking at."
"Sometimes it's difficult to find some features like they were in previous versions."
"The UI interface of the application has been stagnant for a long time."
"The what-if analysis section is not very advanced and there is a lot of room for improvement."
"There's a lot of stuff we want to do that we can't. I would advise someone considering this solution to take classes and get a lot of information because this solution may look simple but it's a lot harder than it seems."
"It's complex to manage because there are a lot of options and metrics. It's complex when you want to do something very specific."
"They should make it easier to find those granular things that you're always looking for. You're always running into a situation where you want to use the tool to figure out a problem, but the amount of effort needed to delve into vROps and find the exact metric you're looking for is always so difficult."
"In a previous version, you could click on a cluster to see a lot of information about efficiency, e.g., when you will run out of memory, CPU usage, and RAM in percentages. In newer versions, you see this information in megahertz and kilobytes, not percentage. I don't like this change so much. If you need to present information to your boss or Director of IT, the information would be better with a percentage. Now, you have only a big number and don't know the percentage of use that you are getting from the VMs. I don't know why they changed it, but I liked the percentage version more than getting the numbers for megahertz of memory. Also, kilobytes of memory is a very large number. For a simple view, gigabytes or terabytes is better."
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Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is ranked 10th in Virtualization Management Tools while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews. Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter writes "Quick and easy deployment; great recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is most compared with VMware vSphere, Nutanix Prism and Veeam ONE, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and Nutanix Prism.
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