VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) Review

Includes a custom dashboard and capacity planner. There was a collection bug and some alert bugs.

What is most valuable?

  • Custom dashboard
  • Out-band (get alert in a text file)
  • Capacity planner

How has it helped my organization?

  • Capacity planning
  • Alerts dashboard
  • Get all the alerts from the external network and use ELK to show them in the production environment.

What needs improvement?

There was a collection bug and some alert bugs (didn’t show all the alerts and popped up fake alarms).

For how long have I used the solution?

I’ve used this for four years: three years with vCOps 5.x and one year with vROps 6.x.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have encountered stability issues. I redeployed the cluster twice.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

How is customer service and technical support?

Technical support is 8/10.

How was the initial setup?

Installation is simple.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We checked three solutions and we chose vROps for our environment.

What other advice do I have?

Read the installation guide and tech blogs.

Which version of this solution are you currently using?

6.2 and 6.3
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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The reporting is a fantastic tool. It's a great tool for generating reports on different things, and for historically looking at performance metrics to help solve performance problems in an application stack.
Vmware always gives us the best support. They are friendly to talk to and they understand the real impact of what's happening. They are trying to get into the issue as one of your team. They also fit into your working hours to solve your issues.
The most valuables features are the collection of assets, security, and configuration data settings from each networked virtual environment in the system.
The tool helped the organization in all monitoring tasks when being delivered as a service for customers helps them to generate early alarm templates, being a cloud service provider is delivered as part of the IaaS to generate memory consumptions processing and storage additionally can be configured parameters such as networking and services that are configured on virtual machines.
One of the most attractive features in vROps is collecting information, logs, and events and, after that, providing proactive predictions about usage of resources. vROps also offers recommendations. For example, in the next two months we might face problems with CPU usage. vROps predicted and forecasted these issues in advance. That's a very useful feature.
It has been helpful around capacity planning, which we traditionally did on a yearly basis. However, since last year, I started using vROps to reclaim and save more resources. It has been helpful along those lines.
The most valuable feature is the ability to check the right-sizing of a machine because that way I can assign the real resources that are needed.
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