We performed a comparison between vCenter Orchestrator and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, BMC and others in Process Automation."The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Communication with technical support is very good. It has a repository of knowledge base articles which we can access which are very helpful."
"It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is availability."
"It has helped us with troubleshooting key points of our environment. If there are issues that come up, we can dig down to a virtual machine and see if it's having issues and where those issues lie: if it needs more memory, CPU, or if there is a storage issue."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. From the web interface, you can literally just go straight into actually installing vROps with very little previous knowledge required to get it up and running."
"The most valuable feature is the ability it has to adjust the efficiency inside the infrastructure."
"The dashboards and the interface are very easy to understand, very lively, and very dynamic."
"The stability in vRealize has been great. We've had no outages nor impacts. The upgrade process has been great so far."
"It is a cloud-friendly application."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass so we can see all our vCenters, all our machines, all our storage arrays. We can see if there are alerts in any of these systems, and follow up on that alert and see if it's impacting just that area or if there is a bigger problem behind it."
"The most valuable features are the Blueprints and Workflows, to be able to hand the self-service portal out; to get out of the way and let the developers spin up their workloads as they need them."
"The licensing is expensive and should be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
"I believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
"Mainly VMware integrates with other products, but there is no easy way to link with other products from a different vendor. We can integrate with other products from the same vendors fairly well, but if they could make it so integration is easier with other vendors, that would really help."
"VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process."
"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"Enhancing automation features without interruption would be beneficial."
"When you deploy it as a single node, it's more stable than if you have multiple nodes. We've had some issues with this."
"I wouldn't say that this solution is user-friendly. You need to know a lot of tricks to know how to use it. It's quite buggy and quite slow when it comes to loading."
"The biggest room for improvement would be the customizability of the alerting function. The emails that come through are somewhat difficult to tailor along with the information contained within them and how they are laid out."
"At the beginning, the stability was not that good. The latest versions are much better."
"The prebuilt dashboards are easy to use, but if you want to create your own, it is not so easy. It is the same for reports."
"It needs dashboards that we can present at the executive level. The GUI, overall, could be better."
"We haven't found it to be intuitive or user-friendly. We're on version 6.0, it's gotten better since but there's a lot of things we have to do under the hood to make it work how we want it to work. It doesn't work out of the box very well until it's been fine-tuned."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 45 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. 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 Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director, SaltStack and ServiceNow Orchestration, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Nutanix Prism and vCloud Director.
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