We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Operations and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, IBM, Nutanix and others in Virtualization Management Tools."It has enhanced our ability to troubleshoot and effectively manage our solutions to understand what clusters are having issues and diagnose those programs right away, so we can be proactive."
"vROps was the only tool which we found which was capable at the time to create customized dashboards."
"When we have problems with applications, we are fast with troubleshooting because we use vROps."
"It provides optimization recommendations for data centers, cluster workload migrations, and vSAN."
"Getting firsthand information in the environment straight to the people that would respond to those actual alerts and events, in real time, versus a phone call or having to play catch up after the events happened."
"The most valuable feature is the insight into real-time performance."
"It removes the guess work. It gives me real data and analysis in a very user-friendly way that I can show to my management without going deep into numbers."
"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 tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"They should include an integration feature through which we can connect to different vendors by installing a small plugin."
"It is sometimes quite hard to use. If I need details, there is a huge amount of information that I need to review. It isn't a three-click solution."
"We would like the return of the additional partner marketplaces, like DataCore. My customers miss the integration to DataCore."
"There were early kinks in the some of the virtual appliances as we rolled them out."
"At first, it was not so user-friendly because there was so much information that we were lost."
"In terms of what could be improved or added to VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), from my experience, it needs more work in the ITSM space because my company never used it as an IT service management tool."
"We have an Enterprise Plus license, so there's a long list of stuff that you get with the Enterprise Plus license, and I'd like to see a better integration of all the vRealize components."
"In the beginning, I picked up an implementation that had been designed wrong from the ground up."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 11th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Nutanix Prism and Veeam ONE, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Automation and Cloudability.
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