We performed a comparison between VCenter Orchestrator and VMware Aria Automation based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware Aria Automation helps organizations improve IT agility, productivity, and efficiency to remain competitive and secure in the marketplace. Users feel it is a complete solution that is stable, easy to manage, and performs very well.
"The backup and recovery times are very quick."
"It has the best workflow feature."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it makes it to manage the VM."
"Technical support is helpful."
"I like the tool's DNS feature."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"We have faster delivery times through its automation."
"The infrastructure has helped us to greatly increase our agility."
"Being able to give provisioning of environments over to our developers and the different teams has enabled them to put up environments faster and also freed up time for the IT team. This is really one of our bread and butter solutions for our developers."
"Even with the virtualization, it would take us at least three or four days to create a VM. With vRA we have brought that down to seven minutes. The solution has helped increase infrastructure, agility, speed of provisioning, time to market, application agility. Everything got super fast."
"The feature of automated balancing which implemented between two data centers solely for the purpose of a recovery plan is valuable."
"We can connect between multiple VMs in a matter of seconds."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's easy to deploy."
"There can be compatibility issues."
"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."
"The solution's price could be cheaper."
"The product lacks GUIs. The tool should have more GUIs available, along with easier product documentation."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"Many times, customers' licenses are not used because the client is not aware of the features and the product benefits. When somebody is buying a product, they just do a default configuration."
"The product’s cost needs improvement."
"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"I don't find it to be entirely user-friendly. There are a lot of complicated menus within menus within menus. Things move around from version to version."
"Our current use cases aren't very complex, but as our environment grows, we're seeing a greater need for automation. We're considering expanding our automation efforts, especially since other competitive products are starting to offer similar features."
"The deployment mechanisms for the initial deployment of the product line lacks the appropriate documentation to give someone who's never used it before... There might be cases where someone wants to go to the website, go to the doc section, and do a step-by-step on how to deploy it. That's really not as brushed-up as other documents I've seen that they have. That would definitely be an improvement on their end."
"We have seen some issues with upgrades or installations. This means we have to raise a call every time with VMware."
"They should make it a little bit more dynamic, a little bit easier to deal with large-scale AD deployments. They need to make it a little more enterprise-ready. That is the one thing that kills us."
"vCenter and vRA, I believe they share two different databases so sometimes you have to somehow sync them up. I wish there was only one database between the two or, somehow, one database would rule over the other one, so if you have both products, the vCenter might use the vRA database. Otherwise, when you do stuff in vCenter, you have to write a command on vRA to update the databases."
"We are migrating from vRA version 7 to 8, but the migration is really hectic and time-consuming. There are no straightforward paths to migrate. We are doing an entirely new deployment to go to vRA version 8.0, then somehow get all of the VMs to vRA 8.0. Therefore, it would have been great if VMware had some solutions to upgrade from vRA 7 to 8 seamlessly. This includes the management of all the objects or VMs from the older version. Unfortunately, it is not there."
"When you start to do a deployment where you need higher availability and more resiliency, then the complexity goes up drastically."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 45 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and SaltStack.
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