We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and VMware Aria Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"Upgrades have been extremely simple with their Lifecycle Manager product."
"The most valuable feature is the way that it plugs into our monitoring systems, and Infoblox and Puppet."
"The preset policies and templates are useful. I would say that vRA is one of the best solutions we have. The CI/CD features also look helpful even though we aren't using them at the moment. We plan to get more involved and train our customers as much as possible."
"VMware Aria Automation is a very scalable solution because it integrates well with a couple of leading products in the industry. For products that are not already integrated, there are plugins or adapters that can be used with customization."
"It's much more stable than the highest available variant."
"The product's most valuable features are ease of automation."
"Using the VMware vRealize self-service portal, we can better manage the lifecycle."
"vRA has enabled us to derive value from the cloud faster. It is five to six times faster than traditional solutions."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"I have not found this solution to be user-friendly. It's really complicated. The demo shows that you can automate anything but they only show basic scenarios. If you want to do anything more complicated than that, it becomes very complicated to set up."
"Deploying and configuring the solution takes a lot of time."
"VMware should go the way of vROps, with everything in one machine, the ability to scale out, and a more distributed environment instead of having the usual centralized SQL database."
"I think they could probably do more if they created more actions and more use cases to automate things."
"It is complex to use for new users. It should have automated tools or drag-and-drop functionality."
"VMware Aria Automation could improve reporting of the policies. They are difficult to customize. We have many policies but they are not able to be modified to what we want."
"In terms of additional features, I would like it to be able to poll my vCenter infrastructure more rapidly and adapt to changes quickly. It should alert me and let me know when there are broken components, as a result of underlying infrastructure changes. It needs to be more stringent."
"We have seen some issues with upgrades or installations. This means we have to raise a call every time with VMware."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". 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". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator.
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